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Old Tue, Jul-08-03, 15:47
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"Genetically modified food would be a black label"?

I don't get this at all. From a certain point of view, ALL food is or has been genetically modified at some point in the past--through selective breeding for favorable genetic traits (redder than red delicious apples that taste like cardboard as a case in point). Since when is it a bad thing to make a gene-spliced crop variety with the gene for making bugs sick that was the active gene being used by Bacillis thurengensis to make the same bugs sick, that was (and still is) supported by the organic foods industry as being a "safe" and "organic" alternative to pesticides??

I see--it is OK to spray the bacterium onto the plants, but not OK to put it inside the plants!! Either way, it gets into US. And consumers are dumber than fenceposts. Just because I do Atkins does not mean that I subscribe to the environmentalist organic claptrap of Jeremy Rifkin. Organic and Atkins don't have to be synonomous.
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