"rick" > wrote in message
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> oups.com...
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> Bionic Growth For Biotech Crops
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> Gene-Altered Agriculture Trending Global
> By Justin Gillis
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Thursday, January 12, 2006; D01
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> snippage...
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> You do realize don't you that every crop food you eat has been
> "genetically modified" don't you? You don't really think you are
> eating whatever the original plant was do you?
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>

GM by direct intervention at the gene level may turn out in the long run to
be good, bad or indiferent but lumping it in with selective breeding over
thousands of years is just pointless. So you can call both techniques
"genetic modification". What does this tell us that is relevant to the
issue? Nothing, it's just playing with words.

David