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I think that the indiscriminate nature of most of the critisisms of Genetically Modified (food) Organisms is perhaps overzealous, under-informed, or both: it seems to me that modifications which combine genes from different species should be differentiated from those which simply use genes from other varieties or strains of the same species, to increase resistance to frost, drought, and other stressors, enhance flavor, increase shelf-life, etc. While the jury is still out on the dangers of inter-species meddling, it would seem to me that simply using modern techniques to create different varieties of a species,using alleles (ie, forms of a gene) from the species' own gene pool is little different from selective breeding, and has a rather low potential for harm to the organisms (mostly us!) consuming them. It is time for this distinction to be clearly made, instead of simply reiterating a blanket condemnation of all biotech methods: otherwise, much which is harmless yet very useful may be lost. Sincerely, Ross Mayhew. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- You received this because you are subscribed to "sust-mar", the Sustainable Maritimes mailing list. To unsubscribe, send email to <majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca> with "unsubscribe sust-mar" (without quotes) as the body of your message. To post a message to sust-mar subscribers, send it to <sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca> Posts that are off-topic or excessive length (10K) will be rejected. For help contact <sust-mar-owner@chebucto.ns.ca> Archives: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/lists/sust-mar
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