Comment Re:Consistency (Score 1) 480
As for infectability, if you want to point fingers, point one at modern factory farming.
Agreed!
Mostly though, I don't like that we should be fucking our own food, we should respect what God / our planet provides us with and do the best with it. If in some season the apples are not perfectly round, so be it. If the cow from the hilly fields gives different meat from the cow that spends its lifetime indoors, so be it. Don't try to optimize or correct this with pesticides, hormones, practices that can be harmful in other ways.... and certainly don't try to do this behind our backs, trying to keep food processing a secret, or objecting to labelling (what is the difficulty of registering the beef and printing some small letters on the sticker? In the E.U. and I hope so in the USA, every piece of meat is already traceable to the farm, so it wouldn't be too hard.)
Furthermore, I believe that we should make a distinction between optimizing & fine tuning a physical, man-made system, and trying to change life itself, and the food that we grow. Living things are of a far higher complexity and far higher dynamics, we can't understand it. If we would just respect that, and learn how to best go about with this, without trying to change life itself, that would be a far wiser thing to do.
The cloning or genetically modifying an animal is a far riskier thing than cloning or GM-ing a plant. In both cases, we don't really know what we're doing, but in the animal case the dangers are closer to ourselves (as we ourselves are animals, look for example at the triggering of the Creutzfeld-Jacobs disease).
Agreed!
Mostly though, I don't like that we should be fucking our own food, we should respect what God / our planet provides us with and do the best with it. If in some season the apples are not perfectly round, so be it. If the cow from the hilly fields gives different meat from the cow that spends its lifetime indoors, so be it. Don't try to optimize or correct this with pesticides, hormones, practices that can be harmful in other ways.... and certainly don't try to do this behind our backs, trying to keep food processing a secret, or objecting to labelling (what is the difficulty of registering the beef and printing some small letters on the sticker? In the E.U. and I hope so in the USA, every piece of meat is already traceable to the farm, so it wouldn't be too hard.)
Furthermore, I believe that we should make a distinction between optimizing & fine tuning a physical, man-made system, and trying to change life itself, and the food that we grow. Living things are of a far higher complexity and far higher dynamics, we can't understand it. If we would just respect that, and learn how to best go about with this, without trying to change life itself, that would be a far wiser thing to do.
The cloning or genetically modifying an animal is a far riskier thing than cloning or GM-ing a plant. In both cases, we don't really know what we're doing, but in the animal case the dangers are closer to ourselves (as we ourselves are animals, look for example at the triggering of the Creutzfeld-Jacobs disease).
