>1) I commented on the promises of genetic engineering as a possible aid to
>solving the problems of global hunger.
>
>2) You replied that what I see as solutions are actually a "spinning out
>from the center" and "attempting to remove ourselves from our source, from
>the natural environment that sustains us".
>
>3) I interpret this to mean that you are opposed to any attempt to
implement
>genetic engineering in the food supply -- that you think such attempts are
>wrong action for our species with possibly dire consequences.
>
>4) but now you say that no, that is not what you meant, that I have
>misunderstood you.
>
>So then I can put your name down on the list as someone who is not opposed
>to genetically modified foods. Yes?

It is hard to allow a mind trained in linear thinking to think differently!
i am going to give you an example . you are living in california and want to
go to oregon, no matter where you go you are going to reach it if
perseverant enough ( and life processes are stuborn ) even if you end up at
the ocean and have to take a boat,  cross it , end up in ToKYo , have to
take a horse to travel thru the plains of mongolia and on and on,  resolving
all the problems that arised from the "wrong" choice . You wil eventually
get there, you might have contracted malaria on the way of crossed few
battle fields , having to eat only rice etc...
Now you have a way simpler shorter easier way, you just cross the border and
you are there
that is what GM is trying to achieve making very complicated and uncertain
and dangerous what is just simple.
My analogy will not be complete if i was not mentionning that you can,  at
anytime of your" wrong " path , change your mind and see that you were  in
fact sitting  on the border day dreaming.
But who knows ?

maybe we can have more fun at choosing the excitement of a big adventure
than stay home.
 For having looked outside of myself for so long i am not interested
anymore. thank you .
i leave you  the magic carpet! i like to stay on my feet.
jean-claude