Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?)

[Gordon Fitch]

Mikalac Norman S NSSC:
> If that's the case, then why should one prefer capitalistically produced
> non-GM food to capitalistically produced GM food.
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> you will indeed.  eventually, everyone will be eating capitalistic GM food
> simply because capitalism is the only game in town and the GM food is
> superior to non-GM food in calories, resistance to drought and disease, etc.
> 
> vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals are identical, so no lost nutrition.
> 
> there will be growing pains, reversals, etc., but as scientists learn more
> about the effects of GM food on the environment and vice-versa, these
> deleterious effects will be overcome.  non-GM food will be a historical
> curiousity like blacksmiths, horses and the buggy, IMO.  
> 
> if eventually socialism overcomes capitalism, it will simply incorporate GM
> food into its paradigm.  no way will socialism turn back the technological
> clocks.

Is technology clock-like, that is, does it accumulate in a
purely linear, monotonic manner, like mechanically measured
time?  I doubt it.  In any case, the advent of efficient
genetic modification, like organs grown in vats, safe large-
scale nuclear energy, or airplanes you can park in your
driveway, may well be so many years off in the future that it 
is irrelevant except to cutting-edge research and science
fiction.  What is being contested today is not this ideal.