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  • From: Kevin Moore <aleguy33@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:53:56 -0700 (PDT)

I couldn't disagree more! Selective breeding is essentially making use of a natural process to our benefit. (Usually.) Transgenics has two major flaws: It is moving genes from animals, fungi and viruses into plant material which could never have gotten those genes in a natural manner. It also puts those genes in a separate package that is not integrated into the plants' chromosomes and is subject to migrate into cells in the intestinal tract of anything that eats those plants.
I would say transgenics is a disaster waiting to happen, except several rather major disasters have already happened. There are very sound scientific reasons as well as cultural ones for such plants to have been banned in Europe.


From: "abb7@Lehigh.EDU" <abb7@Lehigh.EDU>
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2009 7:51:50 PM
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> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 09:55:08 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Kevin Moore <aleguy33@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grapple
> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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> It sounds really horrible! I wonder who's brainchild that was. I 
> remember tasting >one of the first GM tomatoes that was touted as 
> the future because it had this >really long shelf life. It tasted 
> like gasoline! I still don't understand what is >so wrong with our 
> natural produce that "they" keep wanting to mess with it.

Does grafting and countless generations of selective breeding not 
count as "messing with it"?  Most of the fruit trees we grow are not 
really "natural"...  Transgenic technology is just another tool to 
introduce new characteristics to the plants.

Alex

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