Comments on: Genetically engineered food gains popularity during food crisis http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/21/genetically-engineered-food-gains-popularity-during-food-crisis/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:49:45 -0500 hourly 1 By: Benjamin http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/21/genetically-engineered-food-gains-popularity-during-food-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-667944 Benjamin Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:00:33 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=24981#comment-667944 Google "terminator seeds" and read up on whether or not saving a few bucks on rice is worth empowering the types of people who would develop that type of "technology". I understand why someone in a developing country where a few bucks could be the difference between getting enough rice to feed your family or not would be tempted to support the developers of terminator technology, but an American living in New York? Come on, just shop around a bit. Look down the road. Do you want to live in a world where food prices are controlled by people who have a lock on the seed stock? I've thought about terminator a lot on and off during the last decade since I first heard of it, and I still have yet to find one benefit it brings to consumers. The only logical reason you would develop a "technology" like that would be to gain defacto control of agriculture. But you know, maybe you should just live in the now and not care about the effects your seemingly small choices today could cause down the road. What did Bush say about history? Something like: "who cares, we'll all be dead." It's a popular attitude these days. Google “terminator seeds” and read up on whether or not saving a few bucks on rice is worth empowering the types of people who would develop that type of “technology”. I understand why someone in a developing country where a few bucks could be the difference between getting enough rice to feed your family or not would be tempted to support the developers of terminator technology, but an American living in New York? Come on, just shop around a bit.

Look down the road. Do you want to live in a world where food prices are controlled by people who have a lock on the seed stock? I’ve thought about terminator a lot on and off during the last decade since I first heard of it, and I still have yet to find one benefit it brings to consumers. The only logical reason you would develop a “technology” like that would be to gain defacto control of agriculture.

But you know, maybe you should just live in the now and not care about the effects your seemingly small choices today could cause down the road. What did Bush say about history? Something like: “who cares, we’ll all be dead.” It’s a popular attitude these days.

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