Re: Food for thought

**"eczekalski" e*@gaias-gift.com**

Grave danger??  So is the Internet, to name a technology related danger.  So
is rain in the right context.  

I don't believe that we can put the genie back in the bottle, with this any
more than any other of the really scary responsibilities that we inherit
along with technological breakthroughs.  We can control the forces that give
and take life more in this age than in any other and that's not a trend
that's going away.  

I believe that the best course of action is to try to truly understand the
risks and decide on courses of actions that control them appropriately and
ethically.  Some genetic modifications may have little risk and others may
be insane to introduce into the wild.  Using technology ethically is damn
hard but technology is not all bad or all good.  To me, with genetic
modification of food crops, that means more testing, more accurate and
careful interpretation of the results and careful representation of what is
known and what is not to the public.  

Our job, should we choose to accept it. 

Esther Czekalski
-----Original Message-----
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[g*@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Miranda Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [GWL] Food for thought

Terminator seeds are clearly a grave danger to all of us--I can't 
imagine any other opinion.

Miranda Smith
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