Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01616)

Dear Cass-

Etherically, we're skakin' on ultra thin ice, which is
great for cocktails to numb one of that fact!

Nikolita


--- Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> Does anyone see this as Atlantis revisited? Wont
> the mixing of atomic matter, vis the human kingdom
> with the vegetable kingdom, again produce atomic
> hybrids, as was the case when our ancestors mixed
> the human kingdom with the animal kingdom. producing
> the hybrid ape. I am wondering what is happening at
> an etheric level.
> Cass
> 
> GM industry puts human gene into rice
> 
> By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
> 
> 24 April 2005
> 
> 
> 
> Scientists have begun putting genes from human
> beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of
> genetic modification. The move, which is causing
> disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to
> strengthen accusations that GM technology is
> creating "Frankenstein foods" and drive the
> controversy surrounding it to new heights.
> 
> Even before this development, many people, including
> Prince Charles, have opposed the technology on the
> grounds that it is playing God by creating unnatural
> combinations of living things.
> 
> Environmentalists say that no one will want to eat
> the partially human-derived food because it will
> smack of cannibalism.
> 
> But supporters say that the controversial new
> departure presents no ethical problems and could
> bring environmental benefits.
> 
> In the first modification of its kind, Japanese
> researchers have inserted a gene from the human
> liver into rice to enable it to digest pesticides
> and industrial chemicals. The gene makes an enzyme,
> code-named CPY2B6, which is particularly good at
> breaking down harmful chemicals in the body.
> 
> Present GM crops are modified with genes from
> bacteria to make them tolerate herbicides, so that
> they are not harmed when fields are sprayed to kill
> weeds. But most of them are only able to deal with a
> single herbicide, which means that it has to be used
> over and over again, allowing weeds to build up
> resistance to it.
> 
> But the researchers at the National Institute of
> Agrobiological Sciences in Tsukuba, north of Tokyo,
> have found that adding the human touch gave the rice
> immunity to 13 different herbicides. This would mean
> that weeds could be kept down by constantly changing
> the chemicals used.
> 
> Supporting scientists say that the gene could also
> help to beat pollution.
> 
> Professor Richard Meilan of Purdue University in
> Indiana, who has worked with a similar gene from
> rabbits, says that plants modified with it could
> "clean up toxins" from contaminated land. They might
> even destroy them so effectively that crops grown on
> the polluted soil could be fit to eat.
> 
> But he and other scientists caution that if the gene
> were to escape to wild relatives of the rice it
> could create particularly vicious superweeds that
> were resistant to a wide range of herbicides.
> 
> He adds: "I do not have any ethical issue with using
> human genes to engineer plants", dismissing talk of
> "Frankenstein foods" as "rubbish". He believes that
> that European opposition to GM crops and food is
> fuelled by agricultural protectionism.
> 
> But Sue Mayer, director of GeneWatch UK, said
> yesterday: "I don't think that anyone will want to
> buy this rice. People have already expressed disgust
> about using human genes, and already feel that their
> concerns are being ignored by the biotech industry.
> This will just undermine their confidence even
> more."
> 
> Pete Riley, director of the anti-GM pressure group
> Five Year Freeze, said: "I am not surprised by this.
> 
> "The industry is capable of anything and this
> development certainly smacks of Frankenstein."
> 
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