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[novapsyche]

Australian scientists develop apple that doesn't go brown -- and it's not genetically altered

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Comments

[atdt1991.livejournal.com]

You mean only traditionally genetically modified, right? I mean, not to nit-pick, but horticulture, like animal husbandry, is definitely a genetic process, it's just less precise than actually splicing in a gene by hand.

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

I was going to say the same thing. It was genetically modified, alright, just the slow, old way (cross-breeding) instead of in a lab.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I was trying to highlight the difference between that apple and the modified corn that the US produces and which many European countries have banned.

My apologies for using "altered" when I should have said "modified".

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

It's not just you- the article used "without genetic modification" which is, technically, not true. It just wasn't gene-spliced.

People with their paranoia about gene modification often don't really understand what that means or that farmers have been practicing gene modification on a slower, smaller scale for hundreds if not thousands of years.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Okay, so what I should have said is that it's not Frankenfood. Everyone understands that term.