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To: Keith in Iowa
It is my contention that everything we eat is genetically modified and has been since the first time they crossbred plants and selectively bred animals to change traits in offspring, and it is not possible to NOT consume food that is not the byproduct of genetic modification.

And your contention is nonsense. The crossbreeding that takes place in nature, and the crossbreeding man can accomplish by basic breeding or fertilization methods, and gene combinations that can only be achieved in a lab, and could never happen in nature, are entirely different things.

Just why do you think we have the new terms of genetic engineering and genetic modification, if it's all the same?

78 posted on 05/26/2011 11:36:46 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Will88

Be it natural, or human induced - crossbreeding is genetic modification.


89 posted on 05/26/2011 12:18:34 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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