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Re: Food for thought
Who knows what the future will bring? I'm sure there will be genetic
accidents that make us rewrite our laws and continue to question these
issues, if not in GM foods, then in cloning or some other facet of genetic
research. And may it come years after the cause, like cancer? Sure.
However, thalidomide didn't _stop_ anything but the sale of one drug, did
it?
I never said don't question or not to fear.
Esther Czekalski
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What will put a screeching halt to GM foods (over 3,000 currently on
American grocery shelves, allegedly none on Euro shelves) will be something
as bad as Thalidomide problems. It won't show up for years, because now
infants are being fed genetically modified soy products, and if it results
in shrunken brains or damaged livers or testicles, we won't know it for
years. The seed company officials (the seed companies are owned by the
giant international pharmaceutical companies) say "trust us." FDA says
"it's not my table." Seed company people say they can solve vitamin A
deficiencies by inserting correct genes into rice. Yes, but the amount of
rice one would have to ingest each day and get the MDR of vitamin A would
preclude their eating other necessary nutrients. As long as they're
secretive, only supplying part of the story, I think the public has a right
to fear or question this technology. Yes, that genie is out of the bottle.
It's the red sports car for the male men
opausal men in agricultural colleges. They're not going to get promoted or
extra pay for "experimental" work unless they're doing genetic modification.
Alas. Pogo was certainly right. Margaret L
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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
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Terminator seeds are clearly a grave danger to all of us--I can't
imagine any other opinion.
Miranda Smith
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