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Date Posted: 01:28:37 10/23/03 Thu
Author: sam
Subject: Re: Genetic Engineering of animals
In reply to: SYNTARSUS 's message, "Re: Genetic Engineering" on 15:23:14 09/02/03 Tue

>
>>Genetic Engineering could mean that we willl be able
>>to feed whole 3rd world nations. It could mean that
>>the eradication of famine and be used to grow organs
>>on animals such as pigs to benefit those that may need
>>organ transplants because of various reasons.
>
>C.P.B. Partisan,
>
>Ha! If those 3rd world citizens can AFFORD to pay for
>patented genetically-modified seeds (which are very
>expansive and not that effective, either)! Also, since
>they are patented (the GM seeds) farmers are not
>allowed to keep the seeds that come from the
>next-generation crops in order to re-plant. It's all
>about the money. Greed. Also, GM foods destroy natural
>crops. Lovely, isn't it?
>
>Do your homework! Genetically modified foods aren't as
>great and as safe as people (especially politicians)
>would want you to believe. Also, I wasn't talking
>about Gen-tech for MEDICAL purposes. I'm talking about
>the foods that we eat. Why do we need to fix something
>that was never broken to begin with? Genetics for
>medical science is for fixing what needs repairing.
>That's not the case for the organic foodstuffs that we
>eat; in which, we should leave well enough alone. One
>may be eating a potato that has been genetically
>engineered to secrete its own pesticides. Beetles eat
>it and die. We eat it and perhaps, we too, are being
>poisoned (in smaller dosages). (By the way, they
>alread DO have potatoes like this on the market.)
>
>I'm no 'tree-hugger'. I'm all for science . . . IF it
>is done responsibly. Don't you agree that new
>scientific discoveries should be explored cautiously,
>with very careful conciderations of what may be the
>consequences of that research and experimentation? Or
>should we just blindly leap ahead at whatever is new,
>exciting, and promising without concideration of the
>resulting consequences? This is something that needs
>to be critically thought about, after all as the
>mathematician (Ian Malcom)said in Jurassic Park: "God
>help us, our lives are in the hands of engineers."
>
>Yeah, 'genetic' engineers. Would you give a scalpel to
>a nurse who has just graduated from college and tell
>him to operate on you? Probably not. When our lives
>are in the hands of the inexperienced who are dealing
>with completely new technology, we cannot afford to be
>ignorant. We didn't volunteer to be the guinea pigs of
>this massive science experiment, but unwittingly, we
>are.
>
>Think about it.
>
>~ SYNTARSUS

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