<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 6, 2005, at 1:34 PM, Dirk Bruere wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 12/6/05, <B class="gmail_sendername">Robert Bradbury</B> <<A href="mailto:robert.bradbury@gmail.com">robert.bradbury@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I've changed the subject because this isn't really related to human stem cell engineering.<BR> <BR> It relates to arguably one of the most significant extropic problems we currently face and its solutions.<BR> <BR> First, hunger and starvation are significant causes of entropy -- every year killing from 10 to 36 million people [6]. This is highly unextropic because all of the energy, matter and time that went into creating, growing and teaching those human beings is completely lost! <BR> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR> Which has nothing to do with GM foods.<BR> The problem of malnourishment is a *political* problem - not a technological one.<BR> There is plenty of food for everyone on the planet.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Proof please. </DIV><BR><DIV>- samantha</DIV></BODY></HTML>