Re: Fwd: Re: Scientific Point-of-View
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Scientific Point-of-View
- From: J* A*
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:31:57 +1100 (EST)
t 18:56 21/12/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Hey guys.... if you think that only your view is "the truth" and "the
>others" are wrong, it is not a dialogue or a learning experience for
>anyone.
My point entirely. Which is why the salesman-like style of Messrs Gruessem
and Laughlin's screed is so inappropriate here. There are indeed some valid
points hidden in there, but they do a great job of making the whole thing
sound like one big snowjob for the dreaded multinationals.
Publicists like that are just what the biotechnology "cause" doesn't need.
> That is not the intent of our group........
This thread hasn't gone far yet, but I got the impression from earlier posts
that a dialogue *was* starting up, and that we were likely to learn
something from it.
The California initiative, as Sunia describes it, sounds very reasonable and
certainly not extremist. A similar campaign over here has bought forth the
response from the big food manufacturers that they can't afford to label
their foods because they have no way of knowing where their raw materials
come from. That scares me. The likely problems with GM may well be
exaggerated, but there are so many ways produce can become contaminated at
source and the consequences turn up all over the world. If these new GM
labelling laws mean that systems have to be put in place so such things can
be traced more quickly, the added expense will be well worth while.
John.
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