I'm not even going to read the article in total.

And I'll be the FIRST to admit that I've read my share of sci-fi - probably too much. But...

It's such a bad idea I dont even know WHERE to begin. But it'll probably happen because the goal in the future is to control the masses of people who will inhabit the Earth of the mid 21st century by controlling how they eat. With Monsanto and DuPont and other international conglomerates treating food, a necessity, not as a basic right - its a basic no brainer that you should feed hungry people and PROFIT shouldnt be the bottom line - is NOT what they are planning. They are planning to control your basic right to feed YOURSELF by controlling the very SEEDS we would need to feed ourselves. By causing the extinction of other domestic breed diversity by only allowing the market wide use of THEIR gene spliced livestock would make it almost impossible for you to raise your own food. One of your basic rights.

So when you read about these so called "advances" in food tech, and the de rigeuer attachment of the "humanitarian - feed the world - how can you question the inherent good",

But question it you should, after the decades lone "experiment" of using massives amounts of antibiotics, cannibalistic feed production practices that have wreaked havoc. We know these things, these "advances" were also touted as 'revolutionary" and "a breakthrough" have turned out to have seriously compromised our health. And these husbandry practices have caused viruses to jump species in ways unknown before. But still, because these companies wield so much powet over our lives we are apparently helpless to resist their needing to make money over how we seem to have NO control over our lives. And complacently we sit while they poison us thru our food, our water in the most evil and innocuous ways. Paint that lowers your child's IQ slathered on nearly toy and child based product on the market - can that kind of incompetance NOT BE DELIBERATE? Plastics that are dangerous enough to kill but have been used for decades, We ponder in large groups why are there so many more autistics and emotionally/neurologically damaged children it seems like today?

It feels sometims like the price for living in the greatest country that ever existed, is to watch the moneychangers own us - to our very souls.

And that's MY theory - crackpot as it is.