"Janet" > wrote in message
t...
> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> How wrong is it to be messing with our food supply ...and why to such
>> extreme?!?
>>
>> Selectively cross-bred (and claimed by some to be genetically altered),
>
> It's an old breed which carries a natural, inherited genetic mutation
> affecting muscle development. The gene mutation long precedes the
> discovery of DNA and was not created in a laboratory.
>
> http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/belgianblue/
>
> Virtually every animal or plant we eat (or wear) today, is the result
> of centuries of selective breeding.. not the same technique or science
> as genetic manipulation of DNA in a laboratory.
>
>> By the way... up 'til around 1974, all they sold in grocery stores was
>> organically grown or raised food.
>
> That's absurd. Commercial agriculture has been using synthetic
> fertilisers far longer.
>
One might quibble about the use of pesticides but I fail to see the
objection to using so-called "artificial" fertilisers.
Graham