Almost 10 Percent of U.S. Medical Costs Tied to Obesity. Time to put land whales on diets.
 

In emailer.net, Darren
Tripp wrote:

Genetic food doesn't help either. If the food isn't good for
germs or insects, it's not good for you.

Then why is altering the genetic makeup of food crops to improve
resistance to insects and disease OK when the methods are selective
breeding and interbreeding?

- Don Klipstein )

Almost 10 Percent of U.S. Medical Costs Tied to Obesity. Time to put land whales on diets.
 

In (Don
Klipstein) wrote:

In emailer.net,
Darren Tripp wrote:

Genetic food doesn't help either. If the food isn't good for
germs or insects, it's not good for you.

Then why is altering the genetic makeup of food crops to improve
resistance to insects and disease OK when the methods are selective
breeding and interbreeding?

I think it would be entertaining to watch the OP as he tries to live on
the diet of some randomly selected insect or bacterium.

The fact that he posts through an anonymizer suggests that he knows his
position is absurd.

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN

Almost 10 Percent of U.S. Medical Costs Tied to Obesity. Time to put land whales on diets.
 

In article ,
(Don Klipstein) wrote:

In emailer.net, Darren
Tripp wrote:

Genetic food doesn't help either. If the food isn't good for
germs or insects, it's not good for you.

Then why is altering the genetic makeup of food crops to improve
resistance to insects and disease OK when the methods are selective
breeding and interbreeding?

- Don Klipstein )

Because it doesn't rely on antibacterial markers or Cabbage Mosaic Virus
as enablers to produce a resistant crop. Do you understand how GMOs are
made? "Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About
the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating"

http://www.amazon.com/Seeds-Deceptio...y-Engineered/d
p/0972966587/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248852739&sr=1-1
--

- Billy

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.* ~Channing E. Phillips

Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Land
http://i2.democracynow.org/2009/7/22/headlines#7

http://www.tomdispatch.com/p/zinn

Almost 10 Percent of U.S. Medical Costs Tied to Obesity. Time to put land whales on diets.
 

In article ,
Bert Hyman wrote:

In (Don
Klipstein) wrote:

In emailer.net,
Darren Tripp wrote:

Genetic food doesn't help either. If the food isn't good for
germs or insects, it's not good for you.

Then why is altering the genetic makeup of food crops to improve
resistance to insects and disease OK when the methods are selective
breeding and interbreeding?

I think it would be entertaining to watch the OP as he tries to live on
the diet of some randomly selected insect or bacterium.

The fact that he posts through an anonymizer suggests that he knows his
position is absurd.

I see that one of the neo-nuts has found us.
--

- Billy

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.* ~Channing E. Phillips

Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Land
http://i2.democracynow.org/2009/7/22/headlines#7

http://www.tomdispatch.com/p/zinn