見ていた記事メモ：遺伝子改変家畜を作成中の先生のお話

BBC Gene-edited animal plan to relieve poverty in Africa 15 Feb 2019　By Pallab Ghosh

　遺伝子改変した家畜を作って―だなんて、ポリティカルコレクトネス的にはまず間違いなく悪とされようが、しかしこんな話を聞けばオールドタイプ左翼ならどう答えるか：

「Prof Djikeng speaks from personal experience.
His father was just such a subsistence farmer who reared pigs on a small farm in western Cameroon.」

　…寄り添うべき人民とは、まさしくこれをこそ言うのではないか、と言うのでは。
　まあ私も、金持ちたちにはどうしても負けるようにも思うが、こうした人々との連帯の気持ちをもって学問をしようと思う。

「He told me how each August his father would have a pig ready to sell to pay the year's school fees so he could go to class in September.」

「なあ？！」と強く同意を表明したい。

「Luckily, his mother kept chickens for just such an emergency, and Prof Djikeng was able to continue his education and become an eminent scientist.

But, he told me, the incident had taught him how children's prospects are based on livestock in Africa and how easily they can be robbed of their futures when disease strikes.」

　…まあ、その、私はこうした意味で生産的な領域にいないので多少忸怩たるものが。