deckard said that you know basically animals the best machines that animals are basically machines and yet they continue to try and treat life as a machine and engineer it as if it were a machine and the cruelties of the early vivisection is now being repeated by the genetic engineers who are literally changing the makeup of the entire living kingdom based on this pathological mistake of thinking that life is a machine that's why they believe in genetic engineering they're engineering life as if they were engineering machines that's the fundamental mistake of genetic engineering. as a lawyer and author andrew kimbrell old battles his way through all the issues raised by the new genetic technology he heads an environmental agency in washington which vigorously campaigns for food safety literally legally as an attorney i find this very important for the very first time in history in the last twenty years we've defined plants animals even humans now as machines and manufacturers under section one one of our patent law that's what you can patent machines and manufacturers so we have decide