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Ethical and Spiritual Issues in " The choices I will be talking about have to do with biotechnology and , choices which we are currently not making consciously because we really don't know what is going on. I would like to tell you what is going on in these areas ....

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.... he mentions is that the former Soviet Union had the largest big-warfare program in the world, with 32,000 scientists working on it. Much of it had to do with genetic engineering. In one of the projects they took smallpox, which has otherwise disappeared from the world, and found a way to genetically introduce into it, without reducing its efficacy as smallpox, either Ebola virus or equine encephalitis viruses. Nobody seems to know what happened to those experimental viruses. A third example: we now have plants genetically engineered to produce plastic. The idea is that we will no longer need to depend so much on petroleum, or on the M ....