Silence of the Frankenfoodies

‘THIS warfare against nature must end once and for all,” Michael Fox declared at a rally. “We are very clever little simians, aren’t we? Manipulating the bases of life and thinking we’re little gods.” Fox—not the actor, but the senior scholar for bioethics at the Humane Society—later told a newspaper that genetic research violates “the sanctity of life and may be regarded as an act of violence.”

Alas, Michael Fox wasn’t referring to embryonic-stem-cell research and the sanctity of human life. Rather, he was referring to the far greater holiness of the turnip. Indeed, Fox and his compatriots in the various anti-biotech, anti-“Frankenfood,” and anti-globalization movements have been completely silent during all of the furor over embryonic-stem-cell research. Odder still, the media seem not to have noticed.

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Jonah Goldberg

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‘THIS warfare against nature must end once and for all,” Michael Fox declared at a rally. “We are very clever little simians, aren’t we? Manipulating the bases of life and thinking we’re little gods.” Fox—not the actor, but the senior scholar for bioethics at the Humane Society—later told a newspaper that genetic research violates “the sanctity of life and may be regarded as an act of violence.”

Alas, Michael Fox wasn’t referring to embryonic-stem-cell research and the sanctity of human life. Rather, he was referring to the far greater holiness of the turnip. Indeed, Fox and his compatriots in the various anti-biotech, anti-“Frankenfood,” and anti-globalization movements have been completely silent during all of the furor over embryonic-stem-cell research. Odder still, the media seem not to have noticed.