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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eolin" data-source="post: 2095649" data-attributes="member: 13266">Absolutely true. Consider what I did today when I went to the grocery store (actually, Walmart, but still, I was getting groceries)I got in my car, which runs off petroleum products that are basically engineered from crude oil. To go from crude to unleaded isn't what we normally think of when we talk about biotech, but it is still biotechnology.then I went into the walmart. I was buying everything I need for yogurt. This includes something like 4 different fruits, all of which I shoudn't be able to find in Oklahoma in March. And yet, there they were, ready for me to eat after just a little cleaning. How come? Because we've redesigned plants over the centuries to grow wherever and whenever we want them to. Sure, a bunch of them were imported, but I still don't quite fathom having strawberries in early March. and available for everyone. That's a huge amount of both production and engineering to make it work.Oh, and don't forget about the bananas. Does anybody know why bananas are always available? Because they make huge quantities of them, freeze them, then thaw them out and put on a chemical that speeds up the ripeness process. That's sweet biotech.And lastly, my actual yogurt. Its non-fat yogurt that contains both live cultures and likely eighty different things to make it non-fat. That culling process of modifying yogurt is also biotechnological.It *is* the future. We may not have flying cars, but for 12 bucks I can make enough yogurt to last me a week. And that's pretty sweet.</blockquote>

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