<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/24/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">spike</b> <<a href="mailto:spike66@comcast.net">spike66@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-">extropy-chat-</a><br>> <a href="mailto:bounces@lists.extropy.org">
bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] On Behalf Of David Lubkin<br><br><br>>... During QA, I stumbled into a DB entry that had us perplexed.<br>> The entry was for an article entitled "Increasing Rape Yield."<br>
><br>> Eventually, we figured out that what was meant was --<br>><br>> rape : a European herb (Brassica napus) of the<br>> mustard family grown as a forage crop for sheep<br>> and hogs... Also spelled rapé. -- David.
<br><br><br>I noticed some of the farm papers are taking to<br>calling it oilseed. I am thinking of planting<br>some of it in Oregon to experiment with biodiesel<br>production.<br><br>My evil twin has suggested planting a few acres
<br>of ordinary oilseed and put up a sign "genetically<br>modified experimental oilseed" then on the other<br>side of the creek put the real genetically<br>modified oilseed with a sign "ordinary oilseed".
<br><br>Think that would work?<br><br></blockquote></div><br>
And the politically correct are OK about converting farmland from food to fuel production in an increasingly hungry world?<br>
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Dirk<br>