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UPDATE (April, 23 2010: 21:45 CDT): Another thing I would like to add: I have been experiencing some fairly serious health issues recently due to poor eating habits and food choices, so food quality and health are on my mind a lot these days. I.e. having choices and the ability to know exactly what I am eating is not just of passing interest to me, but critical to my ability to get and stay healthy. So, I've decided to support the "Food Democracy Now! " right-to-know campaign as I believe the critical threat here is to our freedom of information and freedom of choice (for both farmers and consumers) as all other issues surrounding our food supply devolve from there. I just signed a letter to FDA Deputy Commissioner of Food Michael Taylor and USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan asking that they not stifle international and U.S. regulations regarding the labeling of GMO food. It's important that American's know how their food is grown. We have a right to know what's in our food and the U.S. government should not be working to stifle these basic rights. If you share my concerns, please consider signing their petition: http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/cms/sign/stop_the_sneak_attack UPDATE(April, 23 2010: 12:11 CDT): added link to the documentary I am referring to below ( Food, Incorporated ) ( GMO and OSS - depending on who you are and how you got here, one of these acronyms might not mean much to you, while the other one is very familiar. My goal here is to show that you actually know more about both of them than you realize) This started as an attempt to understand what I was feeling after watching the documentary Food, Incorporated last night - particularly how the issues it raised are similar to software and techology issues (though a lot scarier and much less talked about). One of these is Genetically Modified Organisms or GMO's. To show the parallels, I've written the following fairy tale (set in the not-to-distant-future) and I'd like you to imagine yourself as our protagonist: You control a moderately large and successful software security company. One day, you develop a game-changing product, Knock Out Pro ("don't discriminate... eliminate!") that permanently disables any computer it is used against. You successfully market it to governments and big companies ("wipes out botnets, zombie pc's, illegal content servers and all manner of subversive and undesirable computers on contact!") as well as individuals (for "household use only") and it gets widely deployed and used world-wide. Yay. You're rich. Undesirable computers are being wiped out. You're a hero... and the only game in town: you scored a US patent for your product's innovative ability to do what it does and new cooperative trade agreements have you covered across the globe. Except - there's this nagging potential for collateral damage when customers actually use Knock Out Pro. (most of) Your customers would prefer to wipe out only bad computers.

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