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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ish who wrote (100060)3/31/2005 12:28:31 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I don't know how we got into pesticides since we were talking GMO and herbicides

What about Bt? Isn't that germane when discussing GMO? Certainly, Bt qualifies as a pesticide. While Bt may not be in the soy bean gene stock (yet), it is not impossible for lateral gene transfers through bacterial or viral means to move Bt out of cotton and corn into other plants. Doesn't it seem imprudent to introduce alien genes, especially bacterial pesticide toxin genes, into food stocks?

The comparison to sexual knowledge, a mostly first person experience, to scientifically debatable agricultural practices is inapt. Visiting farms to develop an informed opinion about the imprudence of GMO as done in the U.S. by Monsanto and DuPont is no more required than a visit to the center of the sun to be informed on the Carbon cycle of nuclear fusion.
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