“It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.”
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The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.
We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.
