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Subject: Re: [Baseline] Raising chickens the high-tech way
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From: Karl Anderson <kra@monkey.org>
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Date: 23 Jul 2002 16:00:18 -0700

Dave Long <dl@silcom.com> writes:

> > It also strikes me that it will not be very long before livestock is
> > genetically engineered to be dumber and meatier, and better adapted to
> > living in industrial conditions.
> 
> If we're willing to count artificial
> selection as genetic engineering, it
> has been happening since pre-literate
> times, and is called "domestication".

But we're not willing to count it, I hope, since it isn't, any more
than natural selection is genetic engineering.

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