The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique of France and Cornell University are planning to introduce genetically-modified plums for commercial use, RAW STORY has learned. This would make plums the second genetically engineered fruit--along with papaya--to be approved for commercial use.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
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There's nothing wrong with plums, as far as I'm concerned. If thousands of children are dying in wretched pain every from a rare fungal parasite of plums that can be prevented with a single amino-acid substitution, I don't want to know about it. Give me William Carlos Williams.
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the test tube.
And which
you were probably
saving
for further
genetic experimentation.
Forgive me
they were so gauche in velour
so distracting
as their eyes followed me
across the laboratory.
See. Poetry is a product of every generation, even if we have to engineer it.
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