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Global Biological meltdown is MEGABUCKS
andrew hennessey
The only thing that surprises me at this time is
the lack of supportive debate for Eugenics.
for press releases for biotechnological superiority
seem to rule the bandwidth
We have had clones here, clones there, clone dolly
clone dracula, clone tutenkamun,
genetics for longevity, genetics for health,
genetics for genius, genetics for stupidity,
When are we going to hear of the gene for
. 'normality' being isolated just so that we can
start testing for abnormality - for there must be some social downside to this
stuff we don't appreciate ..
so many people take great pains to paint an
upside picture of a new eden full of verdant wonder,
and thats just the people !!!
But laying aside the noble grailquest of science
for the perfect society - there is a worrying amount of reportage that is
picking out a seeming lack of reason and logic in the deployment of in vivo
genetic industry programmes.
For me logic tells me that a GM plant should be
pronounced safe for public and environmental facility after it has been
measured, not before. yet most of the population of the USA appear to have
consumed GM foods before any measurement could be medically
determined.
Not so for the global population the slow and
painstaking incremental, steady as a rock reason, debate and peer review, indeed
there is such an ungodly haste to play Poker with the 'natural
order' essentially a highly complex biological chaos - that it is probably
beyond the financial ability or desire of the Biotech companies to measure
any effects of mutation and migration of genes.
yet all we hear from the genetics pundits is that
to make an omlette ---- one has to break a few ovum
This is clearly crazy.
We can take note that we have the technology to
create any organism - but the big questions of who should be allowed to create
what, why, when and where are still to be raised let alone debated.
For if all goes to plan - the Corporation with the
most money will write the laws eg. empirical GM trials in vivo. and the
widespread pollution of natural staple crop pollen.
Genetic pollution could create redundant hybrids
and redundant ecosystems - once the 19th century Philosopher david Hume asked
the question - 'how can we know that the bread we eat is
nutritious'
in the 3rd millenium - the validity and viability
of organic systems is again a valid question.
If I were a rich money grubbing multinational and I
wanted some REAL money - I would firstly patent all the processes in genetics
that could manufacture food stock and seed crops and livestock - then having
done that - to make myself the sole competitor in the Global marketplace - I
would indiscriminately genetically pollute the entire planet to create a Global
problem of organic inviability, a biological catastrophe - then I would offer to
restock the Planet - out of the goodness of my own Biotech labs for a
price.
Are we all collectively naive enough to assume that
what we eat in the meantime matters to these people ??
andrew hennessey
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