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Re:The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana by patio11 on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @02:18PM (#1980192)
Essentially all food people is eat GM food. Some of it was just GMed in by people who might not have had helpful tools like computers, DNA, Mendellevian hereditary, or written language.

Take a look at the cow: four little bitty legs attached to a bag of delicious meat. The cow cannot exist in nature. It doesn't have to, since when nature comes close to our delicious meat we kill it.

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Re:The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana by icey on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @02:32PM (#1980259)
It's like that old joke - if you want to save an endangered species, you just have to convince everyone that it tastes good.
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Re:The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana by sudont on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @02:39PM (#1980286)
Considering the plight of tuna, we can safely put this old saw away.
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Re:The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana by eru on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @03:30PM (#1980469)
The problem is that nobody effectively owns Tuna.
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Re:The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana by billswift on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @05:22PM (#1980902)
Endangered is a political classification. NOT scientific.
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Re:The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana by eru on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @05:14PM (#1980870)
Do you want to play ontological games?
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Re:The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana by sudont on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @05:54PM (#1981016)
Ah, got your point now. Cleared my comment.
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Re:The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana by noilly on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @06:01PM (#1981037)
granted, feral cattle can be quite nasty (wouldn't want to meet one in the wild)
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Re:The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana by borism on Thursday December 09, 2010 @08:53AM (#1987387)
The cow cannot exist in nature.

umm, yes it can http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs

and Aurochs originated in India, where cultural tradition prohibits using them for meat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_in_religion

The cow was possibly revered because the largely pastoral Vedic people and subsequent generations relied heavily on it for dairy products and for tilling the fields, and on cow dung as a source of fuel, fertilizer, and psilocybin mushrooms which naturally grow out of the animal's own excrement.

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