However, when private profit is involved, you simply must raise questions, particularly in the area of biotechnology. Some life forms, like ants, for example, have been around for over 120 million years.
Humans are, despite our sentience, the youngest of siblings to the other life forms on the planet.
What s good for Monsanto s stockholders may not be good for the rest of us, and in fact, often isn t, as the whole Bovine Growth Hormone flap has shown. You have the foundations for very poor decisionmaking all there, a recipe for disaster. One need merely look at the ecological disasters wrought by the migration of species to unfamiliar habitats that accompanied human travel from continent to continent. In this case, it was only species interaction that led to the extinction of manifold species, not wholesale diddling with the very building blocks of life on this planet. Like so much with capitalism, the long term consequences of short-term profit are disregarded.