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Warpy

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1. First thing tobacco's actually been useful for.
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 01:54 AM
Aug 2014

They've been doing GMO bacteria for decades, which is why people now take a human analong insulin produced by e-coli instead of the pork insulin to which so many became either allergic or strongly resistant to.

I have nothing about engineering plants for useful characteristics, like a higher protein rice and other useful crops. Selective saving of seed did the same thing, albeit very, very slowly.

I do want GMO crops to be labeled as such. People who want to pay megabucks for non GMO stuff should be allowed to know.

However, putting BT into crops was a bad idea, especially for the monarch butterfly. That was a blunder and that needs to be recalled.

I am delighted that something useful has been done with the tobacco plant.

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