>From: "Christy Korrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> This attitude of eradicating everything that stands in our way or
> everything that causes us some discomfort is really the true nature of
>the
>sickness
> of humanity.
> Around here people perceive snakes as bad and so they kill them
>ruthlessly.
>
> My oldest daughter is allergic to poison ivy. Does that mean we should
>wipe
> the plant off of the face of the Earth... (?)
Thanks, Christy, for your thoughtful response (sorry, I've been offline for
a couple of days). However, "Up to a point, Lord Copper", surely?
Obviously I don't preach eradicating snakes, poison ivy etc from the face of
the Earth - but might you not try to discourage them from your back yard?
Do you contend that we shouldn't have 'eradicated' smallpox and other
serious infections?
On the positive side, we've 'improved' practically all major crop plants by
conventional breeding methods (and the reason why I wondered whether the
modified soy might be acceptable was that the manipulated genes were soy
ones, not foreign implants) - you don't surely want to grow small, bitter
yellow berries rather than the tomatoes we're familiar with?
But then, I'm an argumentative old cuss anyway! Tony N-S
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