At 04:40 AM 11/19/00 -0800, Rich McCormack wrote: > >byron bromley wrote: >> >> F'n frightening >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> http://news.excite.com/news/r/001116/17/science-biotech-glickman-dc > >Indeed...it is frightening that a bunch of biotech "luddites" >can hold a hungry world hostage to their paranoid delusions and >anti-business agenda... horse kaka, brother...a technology which has the *potential* to wreak havoc upon the environment is nothing to blindly accept in the name of "commerce/business"...no one, *no*one* can deny that genetic manipulation of genes is a science where if a mistake is made, there is *no* recourse, *no* means by which to "clean up" or "fix" said problem... as for a "hungry world", it's simply not true...there's plenty of food in the world...what's lacking is reliable transportation systems, reliable governments (including the US), and thus reliable systems of distribution... these arguments are tiresome...corporate propaganda is tiresome, if not insulting to every person with a smidgen of intellect (and no stock in biotech corporations...) Peace, Hendrix, and CHiles....... Rael64