2022-10-30
Well, if the wholesale roll-out of experimental largely untested pharmaceutical gene-editing products across all (healthy!) populations and age-groups regardless of risk isn't enough to convince you, how about the uncontrolled roll-out of untested unregulated and unlabelled gene-edited flora and fauna (including food) all across the world for all manner of profitable purposes?
"Gene editing is cheap, easy, prone to side effects, poorly regulated and can permanently alter nature’s gene pool - a recipe for disaster"
This annoying video with its irritating tinkly muzak sets out the technical risks well enough, but the primary issues that concern me are:
a) Our freedom of choice to accept or reject such foods and products will be quickly (or immediately if labelling is not deemed necessary) reduced to virtually zero. You can eat anything you like but there will no longer be any original natural foods available.
b) The Big-Pharma-Crony-Government axis has conclusively demonstrated that we have absolutely no reason to trust any product of Big-Corporate-Crony-Government.
c) Regulation in the public interest is not the answer where Big-Money can and does buy any regulator. If we are arguing for better regulation then we are on the wrong horse. We should simply make it illegal, break up the corporations who are pushing it, and bury the technology for good (yes, that's easier said than done, but where's our ambition?).
Still interested? Watch the video, read the article (recommended).
