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To: kormac who wrote (9567)	4/3/2000 2:33:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Your writing suggests that you might subscribe to the enlightenment idea of the greatest good for greatest number? Not specifically, no, though it is necessary to weigh costs and benefits to all involved to the greatest extent possible I am certainly not an absolute apologist for corporate agriculture - there are and will continue to be serious problems there. But there have also been enormous benefits, without which we would be producing a lot less food than we are today. I don't like to see this knee-jerk fear of the unknown, and the assumption that anything coming out of a big corporation must be harmful. This notion might lead to the earth being one giant feedlot. If you follow Edward Wilson's logic, we might also end up as a society akin to ants. It also might lead to farmers with limited amounts of land - a very Asian situation (futile attempt to go back on topic) - being able to grow enough to generate a cash surplus and improve their lives a little. I have a suspicion that in 50 years we will be looking at genetically modified foods the way we look now at antibiotics, which have annihilated countless gazillions of living organisms and totally altered the balance between humans and their environment. Certainly antibiotics are widely abused, and their abuse is a serious public health problem. But would we be better off without them? In any event, as you suggest, the genie is out of the bottle. I'd like to see effort put into putting the genie to effective use, rather than trying to stuff it back in the bottle.