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Default How to identify GMO food at the supermarket...if you care to.
In article >,
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> In article >,
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> How different is GMA compared to the cross breeding
> > that has been done for centuries already?
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> What has happened for centuries, is hybridisation (cross fertilisation)
> within a species or genus.
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> Genetic Modification can produce DNA alterations that could never occur
> by hybridisation. For example fish, virus and soil bacteria genes inserted
> into plants.

Viruses insert their genes into plants all the time. It's what viruses
do. Usually the result is a dead plant, sometimes things go wrong for
the virus.
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