[inkblotuniverse]

No, you misidentify me; I'm not one of those anti-human "the world is overpopulated!! Degrowth!!" People. Better food is good; I just assume someone will fuck up at some point while we're figuring out nutrition and genetic engineering.

Let the hundreds of millions eat what they will; any problems or mistakes with gene-edits that lead to poisoning, carcinogens or insidious malnutrition will be sorted out after a few decades, I'm sure. I just don't want to be the guinea pig, if I can let a hundred million other people do so instead!

Those hordes of hungry mouths are a great laboratory: diverse, far enough away and poor enough they can't take revenge on you if you accidentally poison them, etc.

[haswell]

This is an extremely privileged position to hold. Faced with starvation, I suspect you would feel less like a guinea pig.

> Those hordes of hungry mouths are a great laboratory

Is this sarcasm/satire?

[inkblotuniverse]

I'd feel like a hungry guinea pig! I'm very glad to have the privilege of avoiding novel foods.

Is it not true? I suppose not; they are a laboratory, but not a very good one.

[RosanaAnaDana]

Just ignorance and the privilege to maintain it.