Re: Food for thought

**Pat Meadows p*@meadows.pair.com**

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:22:44 -0600, you wrote:

>
>What is your view on these "terminator" crops - those that are  
>genetically modified so that seeds cannot be saved?    Do you feel  
>there is any danger to plant species in general if this ability/DNA  
>to kill a plant's embryo is transferred by pollinators to other plants?

They certainly pose a tremendous danger to the world's food
supplies, and to traditional methods of life and of farming
in many countries. 

I oppose "terminator crops" on those grounds - I think you
could call them 'social grounds'.  They make the farmer
utterly dependent on (surprise!) large, often multinational,
corporations.

Pat
--
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, 
since it is the merger of state and corporate power." 
- Benito Mussolini
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