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.
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Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:29,
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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.
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Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:31,
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That's more un-natural selection
I'm talking fish DNA in grain etc.
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riverghost servicing your mum since,
Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:36,
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And the difference is . . . ?
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Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:39,
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fishier grain?
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arrangedletters,
Sun 29 Jun 2008, 11:50,
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grow your own kedgeree
what a splendid idea
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Sun 29 Jun 2008, 12:01,
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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.
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it's what i've been saying all along
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