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Genetic Engineers Barking Up the Wrong Trees?
Rick the Red writes "In a commentary titled 'Genetic engineering for better suburbia', Vincent Barnes says, 'Cures for diseases and feeding the world with genetically modified foods is well and good but the real money is in solving the problems of homeowners, the vast silent majority of Americans who toil away every spring and summer fighting pests and every fall injuring their backs and falling off ladders.' Should Monsanto bring us designer maples that don't shed leaves? Would you buy designer grass that grows two inches and stops? Even if you won't eat GM food?"
The result is the same mucking-with-genes, just much more slowly than genetic engineering promises.
Finally, someone who agrees. That's exactly what I said to the police officer. Look, I'm just driving to grocery store. The results are the same whether I go 25 mph or 125 mph down this residential street. What is the big deal?