From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 15:36:09 MDT
Brian D Williams wrote:
>
> Genetically modified is not "organic" by definition. I found large
> amounts of material on the USDA's attempts to redefine "organic" to
> include genetically modified plants, nuclear irradiation, and bio-
> solids, to benefit agribusiness.
>
> Rather than try to capitalize on someone else terms, agribusiness
> should create new terms of it's own.
"Organic" is supposed to apply to the way a plant is grown, not its
heritage, and this is the point the labelling campaign is making.
Virtually all food produced by man comes from plants and animals which
did not 'naturally' evolve. Thus the term "genetically *modified*"
applies to hybridized species as well as genespliced species. How a
species is modified from its wild origins is immaterial.
Additionally, your earlier claims that hybrid breeding prevents inviable
species from surviving are bogus, because ANY genome will either survive
or not whether its wild, hybridized, or gene spliced.
I also find it rather odd that those who politically claim that genetic
characteristics in humans should have no impact on how they are treated
are fully willing to make such racist distinctions when it comes to the
food they eat.
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