Hybridization (WAS: Thank You!)

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LOL, thanks Shari. " I needed that! "

Elchanan

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SV

Monday, January 21, 2008 7:16 AM

 

Re: Hybridization (WAS: Thank You!)

 

 

" ...In a sense, all sexual reproduction constitutes hybridization. For

example,...

 

Sort of reminds me of an old George Carlin joke: " Life is a terminal disease

sexually transmitted. "

 

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

 

Shari

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

On Jan 21, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Nora Lenz wrote:

 

> It's also not natural to dig a hole, put a seed in, bring water that

> wouldn't be there naturally, fertilize, weed, and do all the other

> things we do to grow food.

 

Exactly!

 

> What I think we need to bear in mind is that there are many

> unnatural methods that initiate the growing process but the end

> product is still produced by nature. We're not tricking nature into

> thinking that the soil is sufficient to support life, we have to

> actually make sure it IS adequate to support life before it'll give

> us the food. Fruit is about propagation, and no species will be able

> to reproduce itself if the conditions that it requires for life are

> not present.

 

While these are good points, I'm sure some of modern technology may

not trick nature into thinking such things, but it can focus the plant

on increasing growth rates, colors, and sizes of produce (carrots come

to mind) and produce a vegetable (yes, I realize a root vegetable may

not be our natural ideal food, this is just an example) that resembles

an organically grown one (yes, not resembling its ancestors, prior to

human hybridization), but tastes quite different from the organic one

and produces a less than optimal feeling in the body compared to the

organic one. So, while the plant may not have been tricked and while,

it may be adequate to support life, our choices of the same food

(whether a carrot, banana, lettuce, or papaya, etc.) grown two

different ways, can have a very different effect on our energy level,

etc. You do make a good point, though one which I would not know at

the time of purchasing produce... Can this plant reproduce? It may be

that some of these " foods " found in the produce section are from

plants that can no longer reproduce! They may have been grown using

terminator seeds or may just be from a plant that would not be able

create a new living plant from its seeds.

 

Thanks for your note.

 

Jeff