Re: IS ORGANIC FOOD SAFE? NOT ANY MORE!!
Colin Shaw (nntp-xfer.ncsu.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.Colin Shaw)
04 Mar 1997 13:43:39 GMT
Oheye4get,oheye4get@aol.com,Internet writes:
>In regards to Joe's viament distain for genetically altered plants;
>being that Gia is a living dynamic system, the organisms w/in her are
>always under going genetic alteration, some arrive to be useful to our
>specices, others are not. I feel the processes of science, and genetic
>alteration, merely expedite the processes started by God. If those
>processes accidentally arrive at a detrimental consequence, such is our
>fate. We became by accident, we may end by accident; its the stresses of
>evolution, just that with petro and inorganics we have confidently
>concluded that the stresses induced are detrimental to our continued
>evolution (resulting in devolution?). Bio-tech offers the chance to
>expidite the processes of evolution.
What utter rubbish. For a start evolution is a natural process,
genetic engineering is an intervention on a huge and unpredictable
sale. Second, the genetic engineering so far undertaken with plants
is not to produce a stronger or better adapted species but to make life
easier for the chemical companies. How can you say that making soya
resistant to a particular make of herbicide is evolution?
I agree with other posts here, it is meddling on a huge scale, we do
not know what the consequences will be. It is more like playing God
than anything else.