This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff

The short of it is that getting upset about "pig genes" in your corn or what have you is as unreasonable a fear as getting antsy because your Mac's got Microsoft Word.

That there is a straight up honest-to-goodness solid analogy right there, because DNA is the same four nucleotides coding for the same ~22 amino acids in the vast majority of (multicellular) living things.

It's all written in the same language with more-or-less the same grammatical constructs; it's just the story that's different. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with taking a functional sentence from one book and seeing it in another book. So to speak.

I'm not going to get into a (further) diatribe if nobody's interested, but this sort of stuff is super-interesting to me. Especially because New Zealanders in general have this grossly misinformed views of what GE is.