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# what is it exactly that you think genetic engineering will do?
what are you so afraid of that your willing to hold back human knowledge and advancement?
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:25, archived)
# any thing that gave us this


can't be a bad thing surely?
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:28, archived)
# the redex?
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:31, archived)
# the code
randomly vanished... it does that to me on occassion. not quite sure how i manage it
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:33, archived)
# The code only vanishes if you press post when the code is incorrect.
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:35, archived)
# aaaah
pme and my cack handed attempt to type it out. funny to think i got a 2.1 for multimedia :D
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:44, archived)
# funny to think
multimedia is a degree
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:48, archived)
# i did it as a module
media production was the overall degree
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:49, archived)
# oh thats much better!
*sniggers*
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:52, archived)
# I know that one.
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:34, archived)
# *groan*
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:36, archived)
# We have been doing it for thousands of years.
Throwing away the bad plants etc.

Tomatoes didn't just appear as they are, gardeners deliberately cross-pollinated them.

See also livestock.
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:29, archived)
# true
the average sheep is now over twice the size it was 250 years ago.
and cows have had all the intelligence bred out of them.
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:31, archived)
# That's more un-natural selection
I'm talking fish DNA in grain etc.
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:36, archived)
# And the difference is . . . ?
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:39, archived)
# fishier grain?
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:50, archived)
# grow your own kedgeree
what a splendid idea
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 12:01, archived)
# actually all DNA
is more or less the same
so the fish DNA in plants is the same as cross-breading plants with other plants.

irrationality is the enemy of progress.
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:50, archived)
# it's what i've been saying all along
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:50, archived)
# I guess the world might be overrun
with a really fast-growing, edible plant.
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:31, archived)
# gm food=$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
and nothing else
(, Sun 29 Jun 2008, 12:41, archived)