From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 16:58:09 MDT
> (Greg Jordan <jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu>):
>
> Again, I believe GM had great potential, and I support it in theory. But
> as applied, it decided to ignore health, safety, and public opinion and so
> sabotaged its own technology. Not that the poison manufacturers haven't
> made their steep, short-term profits. GM could have enabled greater
> implementation of organic food production. Instead, it's ended up being
> excluded from organic labeling.
Like there was any chance it might not have been? Get real. The
tree huggers would never have allowed GM foods as "organic" even if
they eliminated all pesticide use and cured cancer. "Organic" isn't
about health, it's about the politics of fear and envy. It's about
people who think big business and high technology are inherently
evil in their own right, no matter how they are applied and how many
lives they save and enrich.
Sure, Monsanto and other GM companies have made some PR blunders
that may slow down the adoption of some foods and give the Luddites
a bit of political ammo for a while. But ultimately the market
will give people what they really want, which is the cleaper, safer,
healthier, tastier food that GM technology can produce.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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