Virtually everything we eat has been genetically modified for greater productivity by selective breeding:
AMEN!!!! I'm glad that someone is finally stating this.
It has been going on for THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
I read a very interesting book recently, "Guns, Germs, and Steel", that dealt with just this very subject and why civilization was able to prosper on some continents and not others.
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The ability of man to selectively breed and domesticate crops and animals has been essential to his progress from the moment he planted his first seed and commenced his transition from hunter/gatherer to that of farmer.
The only two thing that do bother me is that we have grown more dependent upon hybrid that produce sterile seeds that won't germinate. I have no desire to see our agricultural industry at the mercy of a few seed monopolies.
The second is when seed manufacturers start sending Private Investigators out into farmer's fields to see if they are
replanting some of the seed that they are harvesting from fertile, yet patented seed varieties.
When you sell me seed, you sell me the right to use the by-product of its harvest in any manner I see fit. If they can keep you from replanting a portion of it as seed, as is the tradition, then the precedent is being set that they can prohibit you from selling that seed except to authorized buyers (to prevent technological patents, of course).
Thanks for letting me rant on that issue. Btw, China would LOVE TO GET OUR GM TECHNOLOGY.
Regards,
Ron |
