>Create a GE rice for high productivity, diseases resistant, drought
>tollerant, no terminator, and give it away for free. And let the
>against-GMO people explain why not to use it in the Third World.
>
>Create a GE peach or a GE apple variety diseases and insects resistant,
>constantly bearing, harvest in one time, slow ripening, high shelf-life,
>full bright red; doing so you cut the production costs to one half, sell
>the fruit cheaper than the normal fruits. And explain the consumer why they
>cost less... Just to see what happens.
I have a word for this: "Fantasy" (If it were true, if it were the whole story,
the word would be "Fantastic"). However .... (there will be no shortage of
responses explaining to Maurizio - who has contributed some good posts
in the past - the difference between living, sexually derived organisms and
cars).
DH
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On 14/05/99 at 11:06 PM MV wrote:
>I would like to talk about the similarity between GMOs and cars.
>Car is a technology; it exploits nature; it causes pollution; it causes
>200.000 deaths every year in the world. Nobody would like to eliminate the
>car technology from our planet. It is too much CONFORTABLE. Who cares on
>the deaths, the pollution and the nature?
>Think beginning of the century: if someone had said "car will kill people
>as a war every year", would we have had car today? But today it is too
>late, car is CONFORTABLE.
>(this thought is from Isaac Asimov)
>
>With GMOs, we are at the beginning of the century. We will have problems,
>pollution and maybe deaths. But if GMOs will be CONFORTABLE, nobody will
>renounce to them.
>
>Create a GE rice for high productivity, diseases resistant, drought
>tollerant, no terminator, and give it away for free. And let the
>against-GMO people explain why not to use it in the Third World.
>
>Create a GE peach or a GE apple variety diseases and insects resistant,
>constantly bearing, harvest in one time, slow ripening, high shelf-life,
>full bright red; doing so you cut the production costs to one half, sell
>the fruit cheaper than the normal fruits. And explain the consumer why they
>cost less... Just to see what happens.
>
>I have the maximum respect to who treats the GMO matter as a religious
>point of view, because they simply said "no, it is my feeling". They don't
>use pseudo-scientific affirmations. I have the maximum respect for religions.
>
>Often I see the use of scientific *evidences* that are not. In every
>experiment or pseudo-evidence against GE I have always found the lacking of
>the *control*, that statistically speaking is somethings very clear.
>Please, show me the control.
>
>The wrong beginning was to start with food. GE should have started with
>flowers. People (we) don't treat flowers as part of the nature. We cut
>them, and put in some place in the house to let them die. GE should have
>started with GM flowers that takes forever to die. This is confortable.
>People'd started to think "GE is confortable" and that's all.
>
>Maurizio Ventura
>
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