Re: SOC/BIO: Frito-Lay campaign

From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 18:07:25 MST


>From: Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>

>Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net> writes:
>
> > > Though [Max More is] not a big consumer of their products, I will
>definitely be
> > > calling
> > > or writing to them to counter the message of the anti-GM activists. It
> > > would help if a whole bunch of us here passed on this contact
>information
> > > to counter the anti-GMers.
> >
> > Perhaps we could request a product line made entirely of GM crops?
> > They could market them to the young and restless as Extreme Fritos.
>spike
>
>Maybe something like experimental cuisine in Egan's _Distress_? People
>try out radical new bioengineered products for the fun of it, filling
>out forms about how they liked them. Probably just a fad, but a fun
>fad.

I'm as forward thinking as the next guy (well maybe not on this list), but
personally I'll stick to the old-fashioned food for as long as possible. I
know the general consensus is that GM food is OK. But the same thing was
thought about such things as cigarette smoking, silicone breasts and
thalydomide (sp?) once upon a time. Sure maybe GM stuff is harmless, but my
goal is long life. I ain't taking any chances ;)

-Zero

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