Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote:
> >    (Ironically, the modern banana is so mutated that it can be considered
> > by all practical means "unnatural", as without human intervention it would
> > have died right from that very first mutated plant 200 years ago, which
> > makes it a perfect example of gene manipulation by humans, yet people who
> > strongly oppose gene manipulation have usually no problems in eating
> > bananas.)
> >
> But some of them want to make sure they are not "genetically engineered, 
> non-organic, bananas!"

  Yeah, which is ironic because the modern banana is effectively an
unnatural product of genetic engineering.

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                                                          - Warp

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