In a message dated 6/23/00 3:36:01 PM !!!First Boot!!!,
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No vested interests here, ecoterrorism in my opinion is unethical.
There are just better way to solve problems, without using violence.
I think John Foster put it best when he said in some form of words
prinicpled policy works best.
Have a good one,
Lisa D.
<< Hello,
some time ago i asked in the list what you thought about GM-terrorism and
GM-abuse. I got no replies, which means that 1)there is fear due to
censorship or 2)there are vested interests not to touch this hot potato,
since the public is agitated already or 3) it is a boring subject (yes,
you bet!)
I hope this time some of you that take so easily on your shoulders the
moral
responsibility of e.g. bombarding Europa (the Satelite, not the Continent
i hope) with plutonium, to donnate your thoughts to the list:
For example:
-The USA government was some time ago preparing to spray the coca fields
of Colombia with herbicides so that the trade is killed. (Not for the
health of US coca addicts probably, but because the money feeds guerillas
in those countries). In our new age that some of you like so much, it is
interesting to consider how fortunate the coca producers are.
How are they going to get advantage of the new technology? Simple:
1) They could make Roundup-Ready coca, cannabis, opium, whatever, so that
they go on without problems, as if they cultivated rape (and notably,
without weeds, by the way!). (I don't think they would mind stealing the
pattent) from Monsanto for such a purpose!
2) They - and many others- could make Roundup Ready weeds, and invade US
food fields at their ease without anyone noticing. (This could be and sold
to various enemies around the world in the form of seed-bombs).
3) They can camuflage the interesting substances of the above plants,
inserting the interesting genes that produce them into everyday innocent
foods, e.g. cabbages, lettuce, tea, coffee, strawberries and banannas,
which would really eliminate distribution dangers.
Except for the unsuspicious consumers (who knows?), the conscious
concumers would have a feast, rolling a lettuce leaf under the nose of the
law (if it exists).
To tackle these problems, the US or any government would have to make
expensive checks in ALL products.
Anyone still believe that the geenie is still IN the bottle?
Maria-Stella
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