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To: Dan Spillane who wrote (1829)	3/26/1999 2:17:00 PM
From: Professor Dotcomm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2539

I doubt it, Dan, 'central political control' usually ends up in muscle bound bureaucrats spouting castrated opinions vetted by their superiors. I think there is real concern out there. Anthony Wong's (and yours) recent posts do show the genuine bewilderment of the public and how they can be manipulated. I can understand pesticide hostility. (Just look at the Colorado estuary and you have to feel sorry for the Mexicans). Then you have the inter species problems leading to Jacob Kreuzfeld problems in cattle. The public, myself included, can be credulous and we can all think that 'food is not what it used to be'. The trouble is that no one has really preached to the unwashed: 'Do you want chemicals or do you want to give a safe nudge to the evolutionary process? Crop spraying (like smoke stacks) is physical pollution but whingers believe genetic interference is also pollution at a different level. I'm sure that if companies start getting into sex discrimination (i.e if dairy herds can become sex oriented and if the 50/50 male/female split can be altered (ex-utero as it were), the same uproar could develop even though the geopolitical benefiits would be impeccable. How many times have we been told not to interfere with God's work?