meganmaySat, Apr 26, 2008 This deviates a little bit from the specifics of this post, but speaking of market forces and genetic modification, I just read an article in the NY Times about the push for a more widespread acceptance of genetically modified foods in response to rising food prices and grain shortages. Though this new found acceptance of "Frankenfoods" would no doubt have as much to do with business concerns as it would with world-wide hunger, it's interesting to consider genetic modification, not just as a means for designing better looking babies, but as a technology that may become necessary to our survival, whether GM corn or GM homo sapiens.
This deviates a little bit from the specifics of this post, but speaking of market forces and genetic modification, I just read an article in the NY Times about the push for a more widespread acceptance of genetically modified foods in response to rising food prices and grain shortages. Though this new found acceptance of "Frankenfoods" would no doubt have as much to do with business concerns as it would with world-wide hunger, it's interesting to consider genetic modification, not just as a means for designing better looking babies, but as a technology that may become necessary to our survival, whether GM corn or GM homo sapiens.