Yah didn't you know monsanto has been GM food for thousands of years. They have laboratories that date back to the ice age.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:04 AM, tjpa <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > On Nov 28, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Adil Godrej wrote: > >> A person living on Rs 2/day (about 4 cents) in India typically has one >> meal of rice every two days. No matter how ethical he is, he "cannot afford >> to be ethical" in those circumstances. Telling him that it is unethical to >> eat genetically-modified rice, even if that is all he can get, is a sure way >> to let him die. Yet, there are people who'd rather that such poor people die >> than allow GM rice to be available. These that the flag-wavers I was talking >> about. Should I be on the side of such flag wavers? In your words, "hell >> no". Let there be enough food so that there is no need to grow GM foods, >> then talk about getting the GM stuff out of the food supply. This requires >> sufficient income for people so that they have a choice. Would it surprise >> you to know that the poor often have equally good ethics as those who are >> better off? >> > > Here the relevant issue is who is being unethical? The starving person is > certainly making an ethical decision to reject suicide. The problem is with > the people who are falsely claiming that there is something wrong with GM. > They conveniently neglect to acknowledge that humans have been genetically > modifying plants and animals for 1000s of years. Everything we eat is GM and > has been for a very long time. > > > On Nov 28, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Adil Godrej wrote: > >> I hope you now understand what I meant when I said "cannot afford to be >> ethical". It was shorthand for those in such dire straights that they have >> no time for ethics. >> > > This is where we part. I don't see any situation where one "cannot afford > to be ethical". If that were truly the case then the starving person you > described would simply kill their neighbor and eat them. Problem solved. > Have you observed this to be the case? I suspect that the starving person is > possibly the most ethical of individuals. They are starving because they > reject the unethical alternatives. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
