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To: Dr. Thorne
You admit your ignorance when you seemingly can’t tell the difference between hybridization and gene splicing.

There really isn't any difference. One just gets you there faster than the other.

Hybrids are created everyday in nature.

Natural grafting occurs, that is true. However, there are all kinds of problems that can come from it. Grafting of plants by humans, on the other hand, is responsible for most of the varieties of food you enjoy today. Furthermore, it was human inspired genetic modification that was responsible for the Green Revolution that saved more than a billion people from starvation. The hybrid plants that saved so many people, mostly children, from the horror of death by starvation would have never been possible from people like you. And you call others ignorant....?

53 posted on 09/23/2013 9:11:56 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase

Grafting and hybridization are two different things.


59 posted on 09/23/2013 9:30:43 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: Mase

What are you talking about? It seems like you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about or maybe I misunderstand your use of words like grafting and hybridization.

Let me provide an explanation and clarification. Genetic modification is the use of virus to inject foreign DNA into plants. This is done in a lab. Virus already do this in nature but God, or nature, or our balanced system of life, decides on how this works. Do you want a company with a history of corruption and a total lack of ethics wielding this power?

Grafting is taking parts of a plant and getting it to grow on another. Many plants are gender specific, like cherry tree’s. You take a female cherry tree and graft male parts on to it so it can self pollinate. Now you dont need multiple tree’s for production. In grafting, there is no exchange of genetic information.

Many of the new designer hot peppers are created through hybridization, selective breeding and cross breeding. There is no lab, there is no injection of animal DNA or god knows what. You take pollen from one plant and pollinate another through natural methods. Even feminizing plants uses natural methods.

Norman Borlaug and his “Green Revolution” used cross breeding and natural methods. He wasn’t splicing genes in a lab.


76 posted on 09/23/2013 10:19:27 AM PDT by drunknsage
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To: Mase
Natural grafting occurs, that is true. However, there are all kinds of problems that can come from it. Grafting of plants by humans, on the other hand, is responsible for most of the varieties of food you enjoy today.

You are a bluffer and liar. Grafting is done for fruit trees and grapes like the ones I have. No one grafts wheat or vegetables. I have read about a few people grafting tomatoes and eggplants but that is it!!!  Wheat, beans and vegetables and others are bred via careful pollination and selection of winner specimens and using their seeds. Idiot!

78 posted on 09/23/2013 10:24:37 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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