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Merrick

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Re: gm foods

Aug 03, 2004, 16:17

'what is wrong with some in the west is a knee-jerk anti-science attitude that seems most evident in the anti GM people's paranoid frankenstein scenarios.'

Yes indeed, the rejection of GM (or any other technology) because the 'scientists are playing god' is ludicrous. Making GM is no more 'playing god' than making plastic bags.

But as has been pointed out by me and others here, to be against GM is not to be 'anti-science'.

Beware the knee-jerk against the 'playing god' idea, which is to believe all scientific innovation is good and harmless if its makers say so.

'Everyone on this board has been eating genetically modified foods for their entire lives.'

If by 'genetically modified' you mean selectively bred, then you're right. However, the subject under discussion is GM crops meaning a plant that has been gene-spliced with organisms with which it could not naturally crossbreed. With that stuff, we certainly have not all been eating it all our lives.

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gm foods – lordsitar, Jul 27, 2004, 01:54


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