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Aug 5, 2014 7:09 PM CST
Name: Horseshoe Griffin
Efland, NC (Zone 7a)
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"Cross pollination is nature's way of making genetic modification,"

Almost true, but not quite, Dyzzy. Natural cross pollination is considered hybridization, a natural happening; GMO is a man-made happening,, far different from anything natural and is not necessarily a transfer of pollen but a transfer of DNA, either from another plant or animal. The OP was concerned with the pollen of a GMO crop drifting onto a non-GMO crop, and that would create something that is not natural. Or in the world of Nature, not the norm.

I certainly wouldn't advise someone to accept it as a natural (and safe) happening.

Shoe

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