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RE: BBC NEWS | Africa | Famine-hit Zambia rejects GM food aid
Jack,
I still do not understand you convoluted thinking about AIDS and GM food.
The problem with the resurgence of AIDS in San Francisco, and other
developed countries, is the mistaken believe that AIDS is a curable disease.
It is not. The combination therapies being used only stave off the ravages
of the disease. (In a sense, I guess that this belief in treatment is
analogies to having sex with a virgin.) Even at that, the combination
therapies only work in 1/3 of the cases, and it is apparent that
drug-resistant HIV strains are becoming more prevalent. I think a any good
prevention program, for anti-AIDS, anti-smoking, etc. should involve having
the victims seen on TV to discuss how well they are doing as they near the
end of their lives.
I think it is amazing that so many of this threads lead to blaming the LNT,
even if there are no obvious links.
-- John
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack_Earley@RL.GOV [mailto:Jack_Earley@RL.GOV]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:12 AM
To: jenday1@MSN.COM; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: BBC NEWS | Africa | Famine-hit Zambia rejects GM food aid
In numerous interviews in countries w/ high levels of AIDS, the interviewees
overwhelmingly understand that they could contract AIDS and what it is.
Unfortunately, many also believe that they can be healed from it if they
have sex with a virgin, so babies as young as six months old have been
raped. Some of the rapists say that they doubt the reality of the myth, but
that didn't stop them. But we don't have to go to foreign countries--San
Francisco is having a resurgence of cases because people (primarily gay men)
are having unprotected sex even though they have or recognize that they
probably will contract AIDS in the process. So the "logic" of rejecting GM
food just doesn't register--but then, SF may also have a high incidence of
health food devotees among gay men having unprotected sex. Although if
Stewart is right, that the government is just hedging future food sales, or
that it's because of the overpopulationists, then life in some cultures is
even less valuable than I had imagined. And that would make the LNT folks
look even more like people analyzing lint in their navels (IMO, of course).
. . .
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