[extropy-chat] World map of human ES cell and nuclear transferpolicies.

[Brett Paatsch]

  From: Dirk Bruere 
  To: ExI chat list 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 8:42 AM
  Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] World map of human ES cell and nuclear transferpolicies.





  On 12/5/05, The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
    Thought you all might appeciate this. Many of them I
    had heard about before but there were some surprises
    for me like the U.K. They won't eat GM crops but they
    will allow therapeutic cloning? Bizarre.

    http://www.mbbnet.umn.edu/scmap.html


  Why? I'm one of those.
  Why do we need GM food? It's already cheap and good enough. 
  If it ain't broke don't fix it. It's all downside as far as I'm concerned.

  The same cannot be said of the Human body.

Most GM is aimed at reducing the cost of producing it to the manufacturer
rather than conferring advantages to the consumer that the consumer 
wants.

To get the end consumer on side there needs to be something positive
in it for them. 

Insulin produced recombinantly doesn't face the same sort of problems.

Brett Paatsch
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