VATICAN CITY, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The Vatican has stunned opponents of genetically modified foods by declaring them a blessing, the Times of London said Monday.
Until the statement, the Vatican had been neutral in the confrontation between the European Union and the United States over genetically modified food.
Archbishop Renato Martino, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said the Vatican was preparing an official report on biotechnology, to be published next month, which would come out in favor of genetic modification.
Archbishop Martino said the Pope was greatly interested in new technologies for food development as part of a policy of sustainable agriculture. He noted 24,000 people die every day from starvation.
Archbishop Martino, who until last year was the Vatican representative at the United Nations, said he lived for 16 years in the United States "and I ate everything that was offered to me, including genetically modified products. They had no effect on my health. This controversy is more political than scientific."
InfoSpace 08/04/2003{more political than religious too, we might add. but only as it's framed. ultimately it's a spiritual question. whether it's better to compromise with evil, and risk becoming evil by that compromise, or risk death and its consequences, which include leaving your comrades in arms to fight on less one.
but it's also possible to sacrifice your life and still not be dead. to give up everything and still walk around.
like someone who knowingly incurred the wrath of the death squads, the fascists, the bigots, the innumerable clots of scum that have altered the face of life, the shape of the human form.
like the flotsam of the death camps, graduates of the soul-altering electrodes in the buzzing halls of injustice, there's a lot of guys around who did that, who went into it not knowing exactly what they risked, just knowing it was everything.
take the risk and pay.
that's not what GM foods are about though. GM foods are about feeding people who hate life. that's about as evil as it gets. it's just that the true form of that evil will never be visible to human eyes.
like setting up the extinction of the human race. you'll never get busted by humans for accomplishing that. attempting it, wanting to, but never for having done it.
but that's great anyway. Martino says it's "...more political than scientific."
yes. yes it is. just like with Galileo, padre mio.}
