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In reply to the discussion: Virus DNA hidden in GMO crops [View all]Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)A lot of people who fear GMOs have little or scientific training, and they unwittingly trust things they read here. So, when you spew lies, fabrications, misinterpretations, and ignorance, I will call you on it.
I have no idea where you were going with your last post, so I will simply focus on your last comment: "natural, you say?"
Yes. 100% natural. The Cauliflower mosaic virus occurs in nature, just like billions of other viruses. The fact that the CaMV causes causes mosaic symptoms in tobacco is a natural result of the fact that CaMV is not limited in its infection to cauliflower: it infects members of Brassicaceae, Solanaceae, Datura and Nicotiana. That's what they do, and it is all quite natural. Your link was a bizarre excursion into the incredibly obvious.
Back to the root of our argument: you claimed that the virus or its gene VI was "previously unobserved." I asked you to prove it. Instead, you proved my point. Thank you. We're done with that.
Back to the OP: the scientific article at the heart of the post is very soft cautionary tale that under a certain set of extraordinary circumstances, gene VI might be expressed in GMOs. That's it.
We're done here. Thanks for playing. I hope you learned something.