Re: the good fight

["Travis Tonn" <vart@turbonet.com>]

    I don't understand the recent concerns over genetically altered plants
that have superior traits to unmodified plants.  I've taken biology, plant
science and environmental science classes over the past couple of years and
I don't recall any mention of concerns about genetic tinkering.  I know
we've been fooling around with plant genetics ever since some monk figured
out dominant and recessive traits in pea plants a few centuries ago and we
haven't made any huge errors yet that I know of.  So what are the concerns?
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Medlin <dev-plan@moscow.com>
To: scooke@uidaho.edu <scooke@uidaho.edu>; Moscow Vision 2020
<vision2020@moscow.com>
Date: Thursday, December 16, 1999 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: the good fight


>Good rationalization, Steve. Yet, to make 'real' progress in community
>development, some kind of consensus on cultural values has to be reached.
>W/o that, the power games continue to play out, and there are winners and
>losers. There are genuine boundaries to how much exploitation and genetic
>transformation nature can stand, and still sustain all forms of life that
>nature has endowed. Unless we move in that general direction, we shall
>never resolve the puzzles that conrfont us, and political expediencies
>shall forever sway the balance of power. Knowledge is the real power, but
>it is distributed very unevenly in the community, and often not shared at
>all by those who control much of it. And, development without moral
>guidelines is not really development.  Ken M.
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