To: permagriculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [permagriculture] Plant list for the tropics + comment on gmo
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:02:31 +0200
> I found this on the Web somewhere and a forum infested with odious gmo
> industry whores.
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> The list:
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> *Trees and bushes:*
> Abiu 9
> Atis 1
> Avocado 10
I do not get what this list is trying to tell us? Please explain, Lawrence.
> "Nature has never put genes of bacteria, fish, animals, etc into plants.
This statement is simply not true.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not trying to advocate genetic modification by
humans, I do not think artificial GMOs are a good idea, the contrary. But
nontheless have I been gathering (from Lynn Margulis "Evolution"), that
cross-species and even cross-kingdom gene migration is actually quite common.
I even recall having read (do not remember sources, but it was more than
once), that even the human genome contains quite a big percentage of
bacterial genes.
You scientists on the list, please correct me or help me out!