cloning

joanna bujes joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com
Thu Aug 9 14:18:51 PDT 2001


At 04:41 PM 08/09/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>And it is certainly not true that capitalism loathes
>life. Where would markets be without lives devoted to shopping and infinite
>consumerism?

Those are not lives, they are productive and consumptive units.


>Nor does capitalism loathe new life, if it can turn a new buck.
>What do you think genetic engineering is used for within capitalism except
>to manufacture new kinds of plants, animals, etc. that can make
>agro-industry more profits?

That's not new. It's only a privatizable variation of what already exists.


>The problem with capitalism is not loathing new
>life but its willingness to make life into a commodity and shaping lives to
>serve its own ends..

Not much disagreement there.

Joanna



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