From: Amara Graps (Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 17:15:55 MDT
(Q: Are there genetically-modified frost-resistant food?)
Dear Extropes,
Summer seems to be over in this part of the Rhein valley. Fall is
following with grape harvests, new wine, onion cakes, Oktoberfests,
back-to-school, colorful leaves, and then the gray of winter will
begin.
Today, I figured out a way to introduce genetically-modified-foods to
the Germans. You camouflage it in their window boxes. Window boxes
filled with color is a mandatory duty in these parts, even in the
winter. So when the flowers die and the boxes stand bare, the Germans
hurriedly stuff their boxes with sprigs of green pine trees (which
gives the impression that trees are growing out of their windows). A
few genetically-modified strawberry, blackberry, spargel seedlings
would, hence, go unnoticed underneath all of that evergreen finery.
Then come Spring- voila! Wouldn't they be delighted?
Amara
(I'll poke my nose in the archives again in a few weeks, and see what
y'all are up to. Now I have a date with my bike and an island. Adios!)
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