The stirring battle cry of the totalitarian: "Live the way we want you to live, or we reserve the right to destroy, kill, main, and demolish anything we want."
My garden (just planted - it is Alaska!) is FILLED with genetically modified plants. The berries in the back are a domesticated cultivar of the western thimbleberry; the difference is that my production is about four times what the forest provides. The genetically modified currants had their genes tampered with in Sweden over generations as people attempted to get the largest berry from a single plant. I daresay that any flower in my garden that was advertised with a color different from its wild counterpart has been genetically modified. As for my genetically modified tomatoes, it's just plain cool to be able to grow tomatoes right next to the Arctic Circle outside in a raised bed.
Greenpeace: What a ship of fools.
It isn't easy being greenpeace these days....
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It may be increasingly difficult for the Greenpeace operatives to avoid ingesting the so-called “bio-hazards”. They cannot be cheese-eaters because 80 to 90 percent of cheese produced in the US is curdled with the enzyme chymosin produced by genetically modified bacteria. (Prior to GM chymosin production, the enzyme was obtained from slices of calf stomach thrown into a vat of milk.)
They can’t eat tofu because 60 percent of the world’s soybean production is GM soy. They can’t smoke pot because much of the marijuana sold in the US and around the world is genetically modified with colchicine which doubles or triples the amount of genetic material, thus increasing the THC content. They cannot satisfy their ‘munchies’ by gobbling down corn flakes or drinking soda sweetened with corn syrup because about 24 percent of worldwide corn production and about 50 percent of US corn production is GM corn.
They cannot wear blue jeans or cotton shirts because much of the world’s cotton production is from the more productive genetically-modified varieties. If they suffer from diabetes they will have to go back to the old-fashioned daily bovine insulin shots. The human insulin available today is produced by genetically modified bacteria.
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-- jrawk