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Thread ID: 22141	2002-07-13 00:28:00	Corngate, appalling ignorance...	Terry Porritt (14)	Press F1

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61995	2002-07-18 02:37:00	Small technical point. The Green's want the moratorium on GE to be extended a further (I think) two years, not banning GE outright.	mark c (247)
61996	2002-07-18 04:16:00	The anti-GE position is not "science related". It postualtes that there is a "right" way for genes to have been sorted among organisms, and any amendment that humans make to this is likely to be "wrong". If there is such a "right"way, then who/what arranged it that way; surely a conscious and "good" being. In other words, the basis of the anti-GE position is theist and creationist. The thing people keep forgetting to ask about "Corngate" is WHO WAS HARMED? The Greens have been so skilled with their PR that they have us assuming that any transfer of GM organisms (yes, that's the neutral way of describing it; even to call it "contamination" is to some degree to fall in behind the Green position) is bound to be harmful. How many people have been killed by GM organisms? How many people have been killed by the Wise and Good God's or Goddess's nasty fungi and bacteria? And why does everything with even a whiff of scandal and alleged cover-up about it have to be called "-gate"? Was that ad for the Fa Lun Gong at Auckland Airport over a departure gate? Or in a gate lounge. Please let it have been. Then we can call the controversy Gategate.	Steve Bell (1009)
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