On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 11:43 -0800, C. Chad Wallace wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: --snip-- > > Bad news. "Domesticated" turkeys have been specifically bred to > > have huge breast muscles. > > WTF? How does selective breeding compare to hormones and antibiotics? > Breeding is simply guiding a species along a specific natural path... > Hormones are a load of who knows what being injected into our food. No > similarity here. > > On the other hand, I'm sure turkeys, chickens and all the rest are being > injected full of similar nasties... so... *shrug* Buy organic. > > Sorry... very latecomer to the thread... just had to correct a glaring error > in logic.
Selective breeding has the potential to be just as bad as hormone injections. Breeders have been known to inbreed animals in an attempt to guarantee a certain desirable trait. But inbreeding can cause lots of nasty things including genetic mutations. So a few years down the road those inbred "organic" turkeys can be just as bad as hormone-injected ones. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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