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Article: Genetic engineering -- into law and into the environment?(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Habitat Australia
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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GENETIC ENGINEERING is being used to turn all living things -- plants, animals, microbes and humans -- into industrial materials, created and released with next to no precaution. In the face of this abuse of the natural world it is good policy to ensure adequate disaster prevention through firm regulation and sensible legislation, rather than massive, publicly-funded clean-ups after the fact. Late last year there was some hope the law and ethics might catch up with technical and scientific change and protect the Australian community from these potentially disastrous organisms.
Sadly, our elected representatives let us down again. Globalisation, trade, and science ...