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[QUOTE]Originally posted by glassman: [QB] i agree, bdgee, but the "problem" is that you have to raise people to understand how to do that... i would definitely prefer to be able to live like that, and we may have to/be able to in the future, big agro-biz is not good for humanity IMO either, and there's alot of reasons it's bad, starting with govt subsidies and going out from there.. as long as the Govt subsidizes the big operations like ti does now? the small operations can't compete... as for GM crops? corn, or more properly, Maize, has no "wild" counterpart. it's been GMed by human selection for so long that it's nothing like the "original" source stock.. there's a few things in the Americas that are like that: Chihuauha's? how many generations did it take to make them from wolves? my bet is more than the current 5 to 15 thousand years "guess" that is currnetly accepted.. i bet it's more like 100K years.. Vanilla has no known pollinator besides humans... GM crops are produced using a "tool" that was found in the "wild", in fact? it was first isolated in maize... see Barbara McClintock: [b]During the 1940s and 1950s, McClintock discovered transposition and used it to show how genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on or off. She developed theories to explain the repression or expression of genetic information from one generation of maize plants to the next. Encountering skepticism of her research and its implications, she stopped publishing her data in 1953. Later, she made an extensive study of the cytogenetics and ethnobotany of maize races from South America. McClintock's research became well understood in the 1960s and 1970s, as researchers demonstrated the mechanisms of genetic change and genetic regulation that she had demonstrated in her maize research in the 1940s and 1950s. Awards and recognition of her contributions to the field followed, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to her in 1983 for the discovery of genetic transposition; to date, she has been the first and only woman to receive an unshared Nobel Prize in that category.[/b] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock [/QB][/QUOTE]
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