USDA again

Stan Gorodenski stanlep at extremezone.com
Thu Feb 7 20:37:50 EST 2002



"Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX" wrote:
> 
> Once again I find myself scratching my head to see any biological science or
> logic or shred of common sense in a USDA decision. Based on what I read
> below it seems that they do not want to allow importation of Monarchs to
> Rhode Island because they are uncommon there. So what does that have to do

Maybe it has to do with the greater likelihood of a small population,
which may have undergone some genomic differentiation, being much more
likely to be genetically altered from releases. ??? I can see the
reasoning behind this.  Has USDA given a reason, or anyone asked?
Stan

 
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