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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 22 2013 @ 05:42 PM EST |
Yes, all you have to do is dig a little in history, like you do in law, PJ.
Animals - selective breeding from the beginning of people keeping animals.
The same for nearly all crops since we got into agriculture at all. You should
see the original "corn" or "tomatoes" - you'd not think they
were food, but over the years man has selectively bred them for desired traits.
Even heirloom seeds are quite advanced genetically over what's found in the
wild.
That's not to say that *artificial* - or even natural, selection can't create
something unhealthy, for some places or some consumers of it. Look at what
happened to the Chestnut trees here - blight, harmless where it came from, but
decimated the forests in US when it came here. Ask anyone from Oz about
introduced pests...perfectly fine where they came from, but...
(I'm not the same anon who posted the original post, I'm DCFusor who forgot to
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