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Originally Posted by BillCosby
It is exactly the point... A new species now interacting in the environment w/ consequences you do not know. Nor may not know until it is to late...... & then you may not be able to do anything about.....
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Well, that's the risk with all technology. There is always some risk of unforeseen consequences and side effects. That's why there are clinical trials and suchlike for drugs, for example. No different with biotech. I still fail to see why it is difficult to predict. A gene codes for a function. As a silly example you can insert bird genome into a rat. You get a flying rat. It's very predictable, and the details can be deduced by careful observation in controlled environments. You know what rats do, you know what birds do, you observe what your hybrid does... If it's something bad, you stop the project, or develop confinement plans.
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Originally Posted by BillCosby
That decision. TO take that chance is being made not by the government but but a corporation w/ one goal.
What is worse it it a corporation that has already proven & still is proving just how ruthless & uncaring they are.........
Personally I would not want to be resting my nuts in the hands people like that.......
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Originally Posted by BillCosby
They are now doing like 100,000 more or less of these "experiments"....... Most will prob be cool... Will all of them be cool...???
How many of them have to go wrong to fuck up a lot of shit???
Then what??? Monsanto is going to do what??? Assuming they can do anything...........
I appreciate you & Malkavian discussing this....... I have only recently begun to examine this issue & have many questions.......
Personally I have reservations w/ companies, especially Monsanto, fucking around in the gene pool & patenting them..... IMO the processes etc is one thing but not the genes themselves.. THese should not be the exclusive property of anyone, or any country.......
I have around 50 questions/problems w/ this issue that lead me to believe that some, perhaps many, of the applications of this "science" is not necessarily in the best interest of humanity. Further the practices & actions of such corporations as Monsanto may result in added value to their share holders I am skeptical as to the value some of it will have for the rest of us........
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I don't think it'll be Monsanto et al for much longer. you don't need much to sequence a gene, the prices have been dropping dramatically lately. Pretty soon you'll be able to do it in your garage lol. Template design is trickier, but with modeling software, i'm pretty sure it'll be changing soon.