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Farmers Genetically Modified Corn 4,000 Years Ago
Ananova ^
| 11-13-2003
Posted on 11/13/2003 3:09:10 PM PST by blam
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Is there anyone who didn't already know this?
Something that you may not have known is that the potato, from South America, introduced into Europe in the 1500's caused a population explosion. There are over 2,000 varities of potatoes, some are resistant to the potato fungus that struck in the 1800's and caused the Irish potato famine.
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:09:17 PM PST
by
blam
To: farmfriend
Ping.
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:10:03 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
To consider cross breeding the same as genetic engineering is fraudulent. A GE process can create tobacco that glows with genes from a firefly. When you can do that with cross breeding, you let me know.
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:14:13 PM PST
by
aimhigh
To: blam
Add the hot pepper and tobacco.
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:17:51 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: blam; Alamo-Girl
?.......The 'French' bought-off Colorado judges 4,000 years ago to experiment (GM=WMD) with Colorado corn etc.
(The French to destroy the U.S. Wheat Belt?)
naw,.....the U.N. would not allow that......
/sarcasm
(Go Judges Go)
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:24:14 PM PST
by
maestro
Amaizeing.
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:26:07 PM PST
by
Consort
To: blam
I've been pointing this out in various "GM foods are bas" threads for a long time - where do you srwa the line as what is GM and what isn't - because cross-breeding in plands, and for that matter, selective breeding in animal husbandry are genetic modification.
The only difference between then and now is the scale at which the modification takes place - then, it was on a macrocellular scale - now, it's microcellular.
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:28:03 PM PST
by
Keith in Iowa
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To: blam
Researchers have claimed that farmers in the US and Mexico changed corn genes through selective breeding more than 4,000 years ago. Anybody remember who was President of the United States 4,000 years ago?
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:29:31 PM PST
by
usadave
To: blam
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:31:27 PM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population - have them spayed or neutered ©)
To: aimhigh
>To consider cross breeding the same as genetic engineering is fraudulent.
Really, it's not. The goal of cross breeding is to keep genetic traits one wants to perpetuate in future generations, and eleiminate un-desired genetic traits from future generations - how is that not genetic engineering?
>>When you can do that with cross breeding, you let me know.
Given enough time, it can happen. Genetic Modification via cross breeding is very, very slow.
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:31:39 PM PST
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Keith in Iowa
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To: RightWhale
"Add the hot pepper and tobacco." Isn't it amazing that all the worlds hot peppers originated in the Caribbean...Thai and Indian food without hot peppers?
The tomato is also a new world food also...and Marco Polo brought noodles back from China...what did the Italians eat before that?
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:31:45 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Hey, I got 4 varieties of irish potatoes growing in my garden right now. However, after tonight's low (32 degrees), I think it will be time to dig 'em up.
To: blam
How about eggplant? Thinking that is related to tomato and hot peppers or peppers. Not that anybody actually likes eggplant.
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:34:12 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: blam
From the Americas:
Corn, beans, hot peppers, sweet peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, squash, pumpkins, tobacco, long thread cotton, and avacados.
To: RightWhale
"How about eggplant? Thinking that is related to tomato and hot peppers or peppers. Not that anybody actually likes eggplant." My mom planted jalapenos and egg plant in the same row, every other plant, the egg plants came out hot...no kidding. (I didn't know that egg plants and peppers were related)
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11/13/2003 3:37:42 PM PST
by
blam
To: Alas Babylon!
"Corn, beans, hot peppers, sweet peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, squash, pumpkins, tobacco, long thread cotton, and avacados." You forgot one.
The Curse Of The Cocaine Mummies (Egypt)
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:41:44 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
An eggplant with some heat might be edible.
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:42:31 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: blam
Sounds like sneaky roots syndrome.
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:43:59 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: blam
I thought noodles were co-invented by the Chinese and Italians, i.e. created separately, but basically the same thing?
To: Clock King
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posted on
11/13/2003 3:59:58 PM PST
by
blam
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