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Essentially all food people is eat GM food. Some of it was just GMed in by people who might not have had helpful tools like computers, DNA, Mendellevian hereditary, or written language.

Take a look at the cow: four little bitty legs attached to a bag of delicious meat. The cow cannot exist in nature. It doesn't have to, since when nature comes close to our delicious meat we kill it.

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It's like that old joke - if you want to save an endangered species, you just have to convince everyone that it tastes good.

Considering the plight of tuna, we can safely put this old saw away.

The problem is that nobody effectively owns Tuna.

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Endangered is a political classification. NOT scientific.

Do you want to play ontological games?

Ah, got your point now. Cleared my comment.

granted, feral cattle can be quite nasty (wouldn't want to meet one in the wild)

The cow cannot exist in nature.

umm, yes it can http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs

and Aurochs originated in India, where cultural tradition prohibits using them for meat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_in_religion

The cow was possibly revered because the largely pastoral Vedic people and subsequent generations relied heavily on it for dairy products and for tilling the fields, and on cow dung as a source of fuel, fertilizer, and psilocybin mushrooms which naturally grow out of the animal's own excrement.

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