As I get more involved with the hobby now, I'm leaning towards more on the purist side more now than ever. About 40yrs ago, as a young boy I remember certain fish I don't see anymore in the lfs, they have vanished. As I'm involved now with Angels in particular and a few other specie's, in Andy Sagar's thread and Angels breeding thread this was discussed as we talked about just the original Angels and how they were mutated ,mixed bred, altered, and even I can now see it more than ever, as my memory's of the old time fish come back. They were some beautiful fish and now I'm not seeing them, except in the pure wild state as they once were.
If we have to alter a banana to feed the world, so be it, its the rite thing to do, but when you alter animals, fish, birds...you only weaken them because it was unnatural !!!
I agree with Caleb on this one!!!
Clem