Re: SOC/BIO: Frito-Lay campaign

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 03:17:32 MST


Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net> writes:

> > Though [Max More is] not a big consumer of their products, I will definitely be
> > calling
> > or writing to them to counter the message of the anti-GM activists. It
> > would help if a whole bunch of us here passed on this contact information
> > to counter the anti-GMers.
>
> Perhaps we could request a product line made entirely of GM crops?
> They could market them to the young and restless as Extreme Fritos. spike

Maybe something like experimental cuisine in Egan's _Distress_? People
try out radical new bioengineered products for the fun of it, filling
out forms about how they liked them. Probably just a fad, but a fun
fad.

(I'm re-reading the book right now, and my opinion of it is steadily
rising. So many subtle and clever ideas...)

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