You ain't seen nothin', cassette!
Here is my contribution to the thorny debate over Genetically Modified foods. We read in the paper today that GM crops may be grown in "hidden locations" in Britain amid fears that anti-GM campaigners "are winning the battle over the controversial technology". Officials at Defra, who seem concerned about the march of progress being slowed down, confirmed they are looking at "a range of options to clamp down on vandalism". The firms have warned that trials of GM crops are becoming too expensive to conduct in Britain because of the additional costs of protecting fields from activists. Last year, only one trial went ahead in Britain, a blight-resistant GM potato developed by the German company BASF.BASF? They make cassette tapes! What's a company that manufactures cassettes doing making my food? Are Memorex going to be selling me teabags?
That is my contribution to the debate.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 5:41 PM
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It's worse than that, BASF are going to start adding a chemical known as C86 to their products...
Ho hum, early Saturday evening tedium
Not sure where to start here! Assuming you are serious, I suggest you look up the entry on Wikipedia for BASF - the world's largest chemical company.
It might makes things a lot clearer as to why the quaint BASF cassette is very much a not-to-be-repeated thing of the past for these guys now.
Just don't mention the war.
When are we going to get TDK carrots and Memorex potatoes then? :-)
Ach, Andrew - as you'd know if, erm, you'd wasted large chunks of your life worrying about such things, you'd know that BASF offloaded the recorded products division, which renamed itself EMTEC or something similar like that...
Well, that's one joke that seems to have backfired.
AC: I thought it was funny the only C86 crop based band I could think of was the "Corn Dollies" , CUD didn't quite work!
The fact remains: a company that makes chemicals is going to grow potatoes. That can't be right, can it?
EMI invented the CT scanner. Almost makes up for the £80million they spunked on Robbie Williams.
My brother once told me that BASF was the German for bass. I don't think I believed him. Mind you I can still remember that same brother patiently explaining to me that the things that happened to me when I was asleep were called dreams and they didn't really happen at all. And I didn't believe that either.
I'm sceptical about GM foods.
Perhaps they're using the C86 to genetically engineer some Soup Dragons...
...I'll get my coat.
Any thoughts on the ongoing Max Gogarty outrage, AC?
I was reading the preface to the 2005 Guinness Book Of Hit Singles last night for reasons unknown, and one stat they gave was that - on average - 22 cassettes were sold each month throughout 2005.
This seemed like a startlingly high figure.
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