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Wading through the links M posted. Not sure what indigenous people’s corn raising abilities have to do with this…
Oh – and I never made fun of yoga. Read it again, Maravilla. I made fun of kismet.
Oh well, looks like the corn roast idea is off. I was going to supply both GMO corn smothered in margarine and non Gmo. maybe next year.
G-M-O???
Silly me, all this time I thought they were arguing about GTO’s, the great little muscle car that Pontiac produced in the 60’s & 70’s!!!
Nevermind!Regardless of how one feels about GMOs, or the motives of Monsanto, it remains that our global agriculture consists mostly of genetically modified organisms [primarily, selective breeding over time spans of centuries]. We all ourselves, with a certain amount of Neanderthal genes in our chromosomes, are GMOs. At present we are able to accomplish the same level of GM effect in plants and animals, in decades or much less.
In qcostarica.com, Nevio Bonillo, specialist in genetic improvement from the National Institute of Agricultural Technology Transfer Innovation (INTA), assured that there is a lot of misinformation and ignorance about GMOs and that the effects of these organisms have even been “demonized.” The article, which also takes into account the reservations Tico farmers, is at:To me, this anti-GMO vitriol is in part nutri-conviction with a dose of the antiscience attitude that is so common amongst otherwise intelligent Homo sapiens/Homo neandertal hybrids. – “don’t trust what you don’t understand”. I freely admit succumbing to this affliction with regard to Monsanto, but not in the case of GMOs.
PEH
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