27 janeiro 2009

Bioética

In the beginning the Lord created heavens and the earth and all therein.

But scientists said let the seas be populated by fish containing human, mouse, and rat genes.
And Hoechst and Monsanto said let the land produce plants and trees bearing fruit containing bacteria and virus genes.
And Ciba Geigy said let corn grow containing scorpion genes.
And Amoco said let there be tobacco containing hamster genes.
And Zeneca made all kinds of fruit and vegetables and they did not rot.

By the seventh day the work of the Lord had been undone and the companies saw they had recreated life for their own ends.
And the Parliament of Angels blessed the seventh day and made all life patentable.

A postcard from Greenpeace to all the Members of the European Parliament, before the 1995 vote in the patenting of genes

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