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Yes
there is - if you and your friends do something. Genetic engineering could
help people wipe out some diseases and could, in the right hands, help
. But for the time being, I think people should go ahead
slowly and cautiously. I
don't think it's wise for millions of you people - especially young kids
or babies - to be eating GE food without knowing it when it hasn't even
been . And I don't think it's at all wise to be running these great
'experiments' in the open air on a huge scale. Both these things are already
happening - in the US, Argentina, Canada, Australia and now China. But
many other people in the world - particularly Europe and India - have
woken up and want to stop being used as guinea pigs. There's already
a big fight between ordinary 'guinea pig' people - who are now just called
'consumers' - and
the companies, usually supported by their governments. I hope you 'guinea
pig' folks win because if you don't, I'm not sure what will happen. But
I don't think it will be very nice for anyone - including the people who
run the companies. Even the most powerful man in the most powerful company
is human and has to eat. And he probably has kids whom he cares about.
Does he really want to use his own kids as guinea pigs too?
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