Re: Genetically modified foods and intestinal bacteria


"r norman" <NotMyRealEmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> It is also true that too often the only real benefit is an economic
> one to the company that manufactures and patents and sells the
> products and the real costs are borne by an unsuspecting public.
>
Most technologies increase productivity, whilst imposing a few extra costs.
The question of who ultimately benefits is a complex one on which an
economist would doubtless write man pages. However if we can kill weeds for
100 dollars an acre when previously it cost 200 dollars, someone somewhere
has 100 dollars to spend on something else.
>
> However the "frankenfood" hysteria is tremendously overblown. People
> have been genetically modifying food for generations and capitalist
> corporations have been exploiting the market for generations. This is
> just an extension of the same processes.
>
The anti-GM campaign is dressed up as science, but in fact is a return to
magical thinking and the idea that "natural" is "good".



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