genetically modified organisms - GMO - could be a great tool in the hands of sane, rational people whose goal is to "improve" the world... or least do minimal harm.

but instead it is in the hands of the bean counting a-holes whose obsession with profit leads them to kill the goose that lays the golden egg, destroy a century old salt mine despite warnings from the miners, cause oil rigs to explode & create a multi-million dollar cleanup bill...

"penny wise and pound foolish" doesn't even come close to characterizing the current products of a business school education.

as long as we elect politicians who pass laws protecting large corporations, we shouldn't be surprised about the ultimate outcome...

copyright and patent laws that were originally written to protect the rights of individuals have been subverted to promote the goals of essentially immortal, mutli-national megacorporations. Nice going.

I can only hope that more research into the various genomes will reveal the common shared metabolic pathways that are at risk by indescriminant manipulation. But to do that we need acknowledge common genetic ancestry... and that my friends means teaching evolution, not creationism.