From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2000 - 19:32:12 MDT
> > > I think micronutrient rice is probably a good idea.
> > >
> > > I think RoundUp *.* is a bad idea, I want to know if a product
> > > contains it because there is zero chance of me using any product
> > > that contains it.
>
>
> I somehow missed the original post about Roundup, else I probably would have
> commented before this. I'm curious. Who made the original post about not
> using Roundup? Even though it's made by a company I'd rather not do businss
> with, to the best of my understanding, Roundup is one of the least harmful
> of all pesticides. (I believe that the product can now be made and marketed
> by companies other than Monsanto)
He's not talking about RoundUp itself, but rather crops that normally
can't take RoundUp which are genetically modified to tolerate it. I'm
not so sure that's a good thing either, and I /am/ sure that "terminator"
genes are very bad. Yes, GM is a good thing, but there really /are/
evil uses of it (as there are with any technology) and it does no good
for our cause to ignore them or minimize them.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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