From: Kevin Moore <aleguy33@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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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.
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Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 09:55:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kevin Moore <aleguy33@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grapple
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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.
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