tree hugging nazis, and a quick note on Peter Singer

[Rakesh Bhandari]

>>Finally the anti-GM
>>campaign rests on a plainly non-scientific, and mystified objection to
>>cross species gene transfer, summoning up the old fears of
>>'miscegenation'.
>>
>>--
>>Jim heartfield
>
>Wow, really swinging for the fence on that one, JH.  A swing and a miss, of
>course.
>
>Carl

Perhaps the fear revived here is not miscegenation per se but one of
monsters: things which cannot be into the category of the ordinary. It is a
paradox that as classification schemes proliferate, so do monsters--see
Harrite Ritvo. Of course the fear of miscegenation and monsters dissipate,
as Jim H would doubtless agree, once we take the postmodern turn and reject
simplistic purity and essentialist categories.

Yours, Rakesh