Bio-Engineered Rice Uses Human Genes

gliph writes "Yahoo news has a piece about a small biogenetics firm that is using genetically engineered rice containing human genes to help fight diarrhea. From the article: 'Ventria's rice produces two human proteins found in mother's milk, saliva and tears, which help people hydrate and lessen the severity and duration of diarrhea attacks, a top killer of children in developing countries.'"

Comments

Next Logical Step?

[Enderandrew]

We genetically alter plants all the time. Placing genetic code into plants to create a favorable result is very common practice. Is there truly a line being crossed if the genetic material belonged to humans?

I'm not entirely sure. However, crapping my pants sucks and if they can make rice to help with that, I'm not sure I mind in the least bit.

The existing solution to poverty

[Falcon040]

For most of human history there has been destitute poverty for a large number of people.

With the gradual discovery and transformation to Competitive Free-Market Capitalism, initially in the UK starting several hundred years ago and then in her allied and close countries followed by the rest of the world, the problem partially solved.

Many attempts at eradicating poverty have existed... Technology, communism, etc. But only Capitalism has been so successful by requiring equality and justice in trade and society as a whole, and making slight over production the norm, instead of under production. Thus leading to the solution of poverty for the masses.

However, Most haters of Capitalism ignore the fact that no other system has eradicated poverty as much as a Just, Equal, Competitive Free-market Capitalist Society, where people are free to invent and solve problems and go about their own business of creating wealth from their hard work, and keeping their wealth.

This is the solution to most of poverty. And it seems that the solution to the rest of poverty has not yet been found.

See links:
The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire
What is Capitalism?
The Destitution of Pre-Capitalist Europe

Poverty is caused by; war; lack of equal justice; barriers to free trade; very high tax (stopping from people keeping the wealth that they themselves have created); subsidies (causing those competing with the subsidised or those forced to give the subsidy to become poorer); and many more reasons.