On 4/13/2004 1:37 PM, Julia Altshuler wrote:
> Alex Rast wrote:
>
>> Isn't there a risk of confusing ethnicity/country of origin from
>> genestock?
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>
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> Yes. The original poster phrased the question in terms of food
> preferences being genetic and then gave examples having to do with
> ethnicity and country of origin. I continued the confusion when I might
> have pointed out, as you did, that genetics and ethnicity are usually
> two different things except for those instances where they overlap. I
> believe that in the gist of what we're saying we agree.

I heard an interview on NPR this weekend. This guy just wrote a book
about rats that live on the streets of NY. He stated that the rats
develop a food preference that matches that of the food available in
their neighborhoods. In other words, rats that live in Chinatown prefer
Chinese food to Italian. Somehow, I don't think that has to do with the
genes that each rat is carrying.


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jmk in NC