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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 477: What's the difference between domestication and GMO?
Description: P&C drink and review a "special lager," then discuss the domestication of plants and animals, and how that differs from genetically modified food.
Dogs were domesticated about 18,000 years ago. Plants were domesticated about 10,000 years ago. Goats, sheep, and chickens might have been domesticated about 8,000 years ago. The farm animals we have today are very different from the original stock they were taken from.
Domestication raises some interesting questions, like what characteristics make an animal domesticatable? E.g., why do we have domestic horses but not domestic zebras?
It's not just animals. Most...