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To: Brumar89 who wrote (3362)	1/19/2010 5:05:00 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

I drink beer with food, that can't be good.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (3362)	1/20/2010 4:42:17 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

<I think Penn Jillette said that FDA charge is BS. Is he lying? > Dunno what you're talking about or who that is or what context it was said in... so dunno. <You realize we digest the food we eat. Digestive acids break food down chemically pretty well ... to sugars and amino acids.> Oh? Explain to me how a pesticide is broken down into sugar and amino acids?? "please"... I study this stuff, you think the above means anything? <The cell walls and dna of food we eat are destroyed in the digestive process. > Give me a break... you don't know what your'e talking about. The above sentance is meaningless in the context of my previous post. <Also if the genetic modification involves taking genes from one plant or animal and putting them in another plant or animal and both the sources of genetic material are already eaten by people .... where is the harm?> The above is meaninless... it's the expression of the genes in the "new" organism that matters here... <Also should we test naturally occurring food too? > It depends on what you mean by "natural"... much of our food has thousands of years of good data to go from. We have EVOLVED to eat it... < After all, just cause people have been eating something for thousands of years doesn't mean it can't hurt us.> It means we know the outcome of eating such food in general. <No. Though I think if there is patenting going on, its of DNA that is not naturally occuring.> "If"? "You think". Well, I don't. <Wow, you've just committed heresy. Don't you know that ID is creationism?> Umm, 1.) you didn't answer the question. 2.) call it what ever you want... then read my post again and clarify WTF you're talking about. <It was described on the Penn Jillette tape.> What's that? Didn't follow the story... if you want my opinion on that you can give a quick run down so I know if I'm going to bother with it. DAK