From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 08:13:49 MDT
>From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com>
>"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.
You are attempting to change a well established meaning for the
term "organic" to get your procedure accepted. You are attempting
to duck below the radar of the ignorant or ill informed.
There is a world of difference between gene-splicing and even the
most advanced forms of crossbreeding like directed evolution.
Your notion that how this occurs is immaterial is your opinion and
that of your followers. It is subjective.
>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.
Unrelated comparison here.
A hybridization that is non-viable will not survive, this is a fact
not "bogus". Whether or not any other combination by any other
technique survives also depends on it's being viable.
No amount of crossbreeding will put pig genes into a plant as an
example.
>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.
Racist? you've descended into rhetoric....
As an informed individual, I want to know what's in what I eat, I
also have a problem with some else's experiments contaminating what
I eat.
I think some GMO's are a good idea, golden rice for example. But we
should be careful about introducing new "information" into a
mature ecosystem.
Extropians are not careless.
Brian
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