Douglas M. Hinds wrote:
> Hi Maurizio,
>
> >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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