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

Dirk Bruere dirk.bruere at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 00:35:57 UTC 2005


On 12/6/05, Brett Paatsch <bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
>  *From:* Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere at gmail.com>
> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *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.
>

Or, even more cynically, they want to patent what is currently several
millenia out of patent.

Dirk
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