On 7/23/2015 1:35 AM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 7:15:38 PM UTC-10, sf wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:47:19 -1000, dsi1
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> As far as I know, all fruits and vegetables in the stores are "designer"
>>> and created to be bigger and/or grow faster and/or be nicer looking
>>> and/or tastier and/or resistant to bugs and diseases. Nobody sells
>>> produce that wasn't designed to be sold in mass quantities to large
>>> numbers of people. "Designer" = Genetically Modified Organism.
>>
>> There's a big difference between the selective breeding process and
>> genetically modifying organisms in a lab.
>>
>> --
>>
>> sf
>
> In the end, the goals are all the same - to produce a better dog or fruit or flower. We could create monsters but a Dalmatian or a modern turkey could be considered monstrosities. We don't consider them as such but undoubtedly they are most unlikely creatures.
>
> New technology always frightens people - the GMO hysteria is no different. As it goes, the new trend in the country is to distrust science and technology. The Hawaiians are up in arms about the genetically engineered sunrise papaya and a new telescope on the big island. I can't say what the problem is with building a telescope on a mountain full of telescopes but the papaya is just wonderfully tasty.
>

Bbbuttt... the telescope will increase the number of car trips up and
down the mountain and thereby ruin the environment through local global
warming.

Jeez dude, don't you get the scale of the degradation???

;-)