<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Table salt is "safe," but a box of it over a short time frame will kill you. A man died in Germany (back in the 1980's) when he drank 20L of water over a 24 hour period. In the early 1900's (1903 I think) Scientific American magazine had an article stating how crazy driving an automobile was, in that, "people were sitting on a bomb.." meaning the gas tank full of gasoline.</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"><font size="4">The deeper problem is the erroneous concept of
artificiality. Aristotle referred to the false idea that scientific experiments
can’t be valid because they are “artificial,” that is, man made. His premise
was that humans are separate from nature. Could be he saw the Earth as natural
and humans as Gods.</font></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font size="4">The Christian doctrine also views man as an outsider,
the evil beings that screwed-up the Garden of Eden, an otherwise perfect place.
I suspect these premises are the basis of the environmental movement. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font size="4">Everything man does is natural. Humans are natural to
the earth, if humans make GMO’s, then GMO’s are a natural outcome of the
actions of a naturally occurring animal that populates the earth. GMO’s are far
safer than the thousands of trillions of tons of poisons plants manufacture in
the “natural environment.” For the most part, the 100% natural is what we need
to avoid and change.</font></span></p>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Jerry Frecon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jerry@acnursery.com" target="_blank">Jerry@acnursery.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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GMO varieties as the papaya industry has. It all comes down to risk benefit. The term safe does not imply bias but the fact that they are safe. Good science.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Jerome L "Jerry" Frecon</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy"><u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> apple-crop [mailto:<a href="mailto:apple-crop-bounces@virtualorchard.com" target="_blank">apple-crop-bounces@virtualorchard.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jon Clements<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 20, 2016 7:53 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Apple-Crop] National Academy of Sciences finds GMOs to be 'safe'<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/17/national-academy-of-sciences-finds-gmos-to-be-safe/" target="_blank">http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/17/national-academy-of-sciences-finds-gmos-to-be-safe/</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anybody rushing out to order Arctic Apples now? Does the 'safe' in quotes imply bias?<u></u><u></u></p>
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