Note to My Friends (Again)
Friday, November 18th, 2005I’m confused. If I put red food coloring in my oat meal, is it “genetically
engineered” to look red?
I guess I don’t get it but isn’t there a difference between “genetically
engineered” and “genetically altered”? Domesticated animals and plants have
been selected and bred because of some enhancement for centuries. Beef,
chickens, corn, potatoes, cheese, grapes, peas, etc have all been genetically
engineered to produce the bigger, juicier, prettier, tastier, etc products.
We used to call it animal husbandry but now say “genetically engineered” just
like a garbage man is a sanitation engineer. Everybodies an engineer these
days.
If it’s beef and the package says beef or lettuce and the package says
lettuce that’s OK with me. To me, when you make a soy burger or chicken
finger out of dead genetic goo, the product label should say so. A chicken
finger that’s really some kind of soy glop should be advertised with the glop
group and not the chicken group.
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