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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
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Because there is no labelling in effect so far, you can’t tell if you are
eating GM products or not. I would tend not to eat them myself.
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My jury’s still out on GM foodstuffs, though I agree that the GM-status of a
product should be clearly indicated.
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I think CNN is reporting that cloned animals may soon be available at the
butcher’s counter. Now why raising hogs in the old fashioned way is less
desirable than cloned pigs I guess I may never know...
These GM and cloned products seem to be solutons for non-existent problems. I
don’t think the proscuitto is going to taste any better coming from a cloned
pig.
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Maybe not, but it will be exactly as good as the proscuitto you ate before!
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I mean, rice and corn -- was there something wrong with these grains before
now? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it...
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True enought, but the grains that we had before now were also genetically
modified (admittedly, through many generations of domesticated cultivation).
Aside from side-effects, which may or may not be shown to exist, I don’t know
why we should resist this sort of research. I mean, if swine-corn could somehow
solve the world’s food shortage (which is actually more of a distribution
problem, I suppose), then I say go for it. Is it better to starve to death
within the next six months or to die thirty years later (hypothetically) from
GM-food side effects? I don’t know, honestly, but I’d probably want to live
longer, given the chance...
Dave!
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| (...) That's actually far easier said than done. And increasingly more problematic in the U.S. than some other countries apparently (esp. Europe, I admit I have no idea about the food standards in Canada). Random thoughts: I just want to know that (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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