... because most people are completely removed from having any notion about what the natural state of unmodified food is? They expect corn to be a uniform color with large kernals on a big cob - and not something of varying color that is maybe the length of 2 thumbs? [my sized thumbs] That a natural strawberry is the size of a thumbnail?
'Genetic engineering' has been used as a term to scare the bewilickers out of folks for 40-odd years now, whereas animal husbandry is a term that leads to rude farmer jokes ... probably because virtually no one lives on a farm any more.
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Date: 2010-09-21 02:20 am (UTC)'Genetic engineering' has been used as a term to scare the bewilickers out of folks for 40-odd years now, whereas animal husbandry is a term that leads to rude farmer jokes ... probably because virtually no one lives on a farm any more.