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Alan,
As a business person myself, I respect your right to reach for the stars in your quests for success in your business. Further, I support science’s constant quest for more knowledge using genetic testing, etc., especially when it’s used for the good of America and/or mankind in general… BUT… yes, there’s always a “BUT”… I don’t see GloFish as fulfilling the end product of being good for America or mankind and the potential ecosystem side effects outweigh their “prettiness”.
Other than maybe giving someone on ecstasy a better “experience” by watching their glofish swim around, I don’t see the purpose in them… just like I don’t see the purpose in. Frankly, I wouldn’t care less if the person on ecstasy decided to go play in traffic and look at the headlights of oncoming cars on the Interstate to enhance their “experience”, except for the possible injuries to the people in the cars and the possible damage they may cause to the front end of a vehicle. LOL JUST KIDDING!!! [to those folks out there who think I’m a meanie! ]
But seriously… it takes a very warped mindset, IMO, for someone to want to genetically enhance a fish to may them day-glo colored. It’s comparable to some mad scientist wanting to create a hot pink poodle with an eight foot long green and yellow tail, that meows. What’s the point??? It’s the Dr. Frankenstein Complex to the Nth degree!
And knowing these genetic mutants will one day be released into the wild, either intentionally or accidentally, and that they aren’t sterile, they will be cross breeding with REAL zebra danio’s creating a bunch of half-glowing mutant fish swimming around in our public waterways.
Maybe you all should have genetically enhanced the fish so that any you distributed to the world would be sterile so there was no way for them to cause ecosystem harm and that would also protect your patent much better so people couldn’t be breeding them and selling them illegally. Surely, you cannot think people are not going to breed and sell them just because you have an intellectual property patent… do you? Have you been locked up in a lab for the past 10 years and missed what is happening in the digital media world??? If Microsoft, Sony and all the other multi-billion dollar software and digital media companies can’t stop a teenager from illegally downloading, copying and selling their so-called intellectual property, how do you think Yorktown will stop someone from breeding and selling glofish?
One last note! If you are planning on replying to glofish debates on a regular basis, you better hire a couple of dozen assistants and start replying in the thousands of other fish forums on the web… or maybe they can just clone you a couple of dozen times. lol I’ve participated in this same type of discussion/debate countless times over the past several years and that’s just on the few forums that I subscribe to on a regular basis.
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