RE: Terminator gene & GMF
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- Subject: RE: Terminator gene & GMF
- From: R* L* C*
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:51:13 -0700
- Importance: Normal
Toni said: Splitting genes to insert foreign substances is not "natural
selection".
As a microbiologist, I can tell you Toni, that you are very wrong. Genetic
exchange, including insertion, is going on constantly, even as we write. If
one is an adult, a measurable amount of
nuclear material in one's body may come from sources outside your own
genome. Viruses are doing this to us, and the plants in our gardens, all
the time.
I have one more observation on this string. The food you eat now, and the
food your great, great grandmother ate is and was severely genetically
altered. The tools used in the past were just cruder. If you doubt this,
think of the cattle and sheep you see. God did not make them! They were
made by the hand of man from the perfectly good cows and sheep God DID make,
and they are very, very different. Even an heirloom flower or vegetable is
the product of many to tens of thousands of years of genetic engineering by
our ancestors.
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Robert L. Chehey
c*@micron.net
Boise, ID, USA, USDA Zones 6a, 6b.
Cool, Mediterranean Shrub-steppe
and frondose riparian forest
N43º38.67' W116º13.68' Altitude: 770M
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