Bill Gates Quotes
Like other new and potentially powerful technologies, gene editing raises legitimate questions and understandable concerns about possible risks and misuse. How, then, should the technology be regulated? Rules developed decades ago for other forms of genetic engineering do not necessarily fit. Noting that gene-edited organisms are not transgenic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reasonably concluded that genetically edited plants are like plants with naturally occurring mutations and thus are not subject to special regulations and raise no special safety concerns.
Bill Gates. "Gene Editing for Good: How CRISPR Could Transform Global Development", Essay, Foreign Affairs, April 10, 2018
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Gore who generally was a progressive on almost all issues, was quite conservative when it came to human genetic manipulation and cloning. Scientists for whom Gore was a favorite politician based on his leadership of digital technology and the Internet and his Nobel prize winning work on environmentalism, but his stance in this quotation was puzzling to many.
Seaweed was been eaten by the Japanese for thousands of years. Most other people do not view seaweed as an editable food. Yet it is quite nutritious, and Smith is breeding new strains that are even more so, very much as we have done with fruits ad vegetables on land. His view is that with Global Warming, over-fishing of the oceans, and higher and higher costs of food as we now know it, seaweed will become a major food staple throughs the world. Actually, Campbell’s Soup and many other companies producing canned and packaged foods, has been using MSG extracted from seaweed for years, It is a major flavor enhancer. But at this time they do not use the more nutritious leaves as the Japanese do, Smith argues that this will change as there is almost unlimited ocean farming “land” as seaweed can grow in 3 dimensions and requires much less labor, fertilizer and pesticides than land farming for equal amounts of healthy food.
A number of Americans believe that these and other elements of our civilization are dangerous to human health. Yet all the evidence, and there has been much on each of therse, has shown that there is no causal link between these and health problems. Yet there are people who claim that they observed bad things like autism developing after childhood vaccines. Some people have been diagnozed with cancer shortly after they began to eat a genitically modified food. Some people developed migrane headaches shortly after they started using a cell phone. The rumors travel and many people are concerned. Hoever, there are a number of children who are diagnozed with autism every year, Some of those had their diagnosis shortly after they had the recomended childhood vaccines. But it woud be impossible for out of 1,000 children who contracted autism in a given year to not have had their annual vaccines within 3 months from the time they had their shots, Actually about 250 of them would have that. Of all of the people who started using a cell phone for the first time, there will always be some who also have headaches after they started with cellphones. Epidemiologists can and have actually measures most of these things and either there is no causal relationship, or it is so slight as to not be serious enough to be a threat.
William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He is considered one of the best known entrepreneurs of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Gates is also co-founder and chairman of TerraPower that is developing next generation traveling-wave reactor nuclear power plants, in an effort to tackle climate change.
