Re: Re: HYB: GMO's; att. Neil and Kitty

Well, Neil  --  Talk about coincidence!  I just returned from our March
Chesapeake and Potomac Iris Society meeting, where Don Spoon, during an
entertaining lecture on breeding for a red iris, showed us a descendancy
chart that featured spotted and unspotted goats, and mentioned obliquely
that he had once entertained thoughts of studying for the ministry.  When I
returned home and saw your message (below),  I figured that witty shepherd
you mentioned must have been Biblical.  So I grabbed the good book and went
digging.  Sure enough, the shepherd was Jacob, and the boss was his uncle
Laban (Genesis 30-31.)

So, Kitty, verily I say unto you, if one of your nosy neighbors comes into
your garden to challenge the heritage of one of the cultivars therein,
simply tell him or her that you received it from a space alien who assured
you that it is a genetically unmodified species that once grew on Mars and
that he had been keeping it preserved in his spacecraft until he found just
the right garden in which to deposit it.  Anyone who believed the rationale
for adopting Mendocino County's anti-GMO measure should believe your story,
too.  --  Griff

zone 7 in Virginia


----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil A Mogensen" <neilm@charter.net>
To: "Iris-talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 3:50 PM
Subject: [iris] Re: HYB: GMO's


> I wonder if anyone realizes that EVERY iris is a "GMO" with the exception
of
> pure species stock, and I defy anyone to prove that even they haven't been
> tinkered with sometime or other in human history.
>
> All the hoo-rah reminds me of a certain witty shepherd that made a deal
with
> the guy he worked for--all the plain colored goats ("good" ones) belonged
to
> the boss, all the spotted ('defective") ones he'd take care of himself.
>
> Then as the nanny-goats came into heat, he made durned sure only spotted
> billys had access to them.
>
> Guess who got rich.....
>
> Now, talk about GMO's, the descendants of those spotted billys
qualify--every
> one of them--the only test tube involved was his wit.  Otherwise, the
story is
> the same.
>
> For that matter, the bt-corn seed and pollen is so mixed into the non-bt
corn
> at this stage, *nobody* knows where is where and which is which.  I hope
no
> one in your county has a hankering for Corn Flakes.  Better tell
Albertsons,
> etc., they better take it and most of the rest of Kellog's off the
shelves.
>
> Neil Mogensen   z  7   western N C.
>
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