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To: acapesket
I'm so tired of you idiots thinking that all GMOs are eeevil frankenfoods.

Let me give you an example of a benign GMO product: One can now buy stone fruit and pomme fruit trees that bear virtually any month of the summer you wish. One can even get grafted trees that have three to four bearings on them such that you have fresh fruit most all the time without too much fruit at any one time. It reduces the load on the tree too. Control of and spreading out time of harvest is very important to farmers, who can then arrange their production in such a way that averages out the price they get. It means you get locally grown food for a longer time period. It also reduces their risk that a weather anomaly will take out the entire crop.

The only purpose for the modification was date of harvest; the fruit itself is absolutely NO DIFFERENT. The only reason they use recombinant technology to produce these trees is that it is cheap, accurate, and reliable compared to classic hybridization. Do you really want to punish those people because you are so terrified of Monsanto that you don't have a clue about what is or is not healthful about a particular modification? Why not subscribe to a service you trust to make those determinations if you are so worried about it?

Look at what Prop 65 did re cancer causing chemicals. The labels are everywhere to the point that they are meaningless. Did it work?

46 posted on 10/21/2012 10:44:19 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers us choices: convert or kill, submit or die.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Subscribing to a service? Will that bring me good health?
Thanks for the name calling though... impressive.

There are huge differences between hybridization and zoonotic engineering of seeds.

If your undies are in such a twist..why don’t we bring back DDT?

PS. to the later dude... Tom McClintock lost for a reason, it wasn’t due to his effectiveness.


54 posted on 10/21/2012 10:55:45 PM PDT by acapesket
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