Re: Food for thought

**Miranda Smith m*@tagoresmith.com**

eczekalski wrote:

>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.  
>  
>

That's what I am saying: we have no idea what the terminator gene can do 
and should not be releasing it. If it migrates in the same fashion as 
the round-up modification has been shown to do, it could cause havoc.

Miranda Smith

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