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This is a point that I made in an article I authored for another blog called The Future.... At this point there are very few restrictions remaining on fields such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, synthetic biology, cloning and genetic modification. All over the world, scientists are feverishly combining different kinds of animals together, adding plant genes to certain animals, and even putting human DNA into plants and animals. Life as we know it is literally changing, and it is very hard
to tell what the future is going to look like if all of this continues. Well, read the following examples of genetic modification below and decide for yourself whether or not things have gotten out of control.
#1 In China, scientists have inserted human genes into the DNA of dairy cow embryos. At this point, approximately 200 hybrid cows have been successfully produced. These cows can produce milk that is virtually identical to human breast milk. The scientists hope to have huge herds of these cows producing an alternative to human breast milk soon, and they hope to have this "milk" sold in global supermarkets within 3 years.
#2 In Canada, scientists at the University of Guelph in the province of Ontario have produced what they are calling "enviropigs". These "enviropigs" have had genes from mice spliced into them, and according to the scientists they produce less phosphorous in their poop so they are being touted as environmentally friendly. Authorities in both the U.S. and Canada are evaluating whether or not to allow these "enviropigs" into the food supply.
#3 Scientists in Japan have created a genetically modified mouse that tweets like a bird.
#4 One U.S. corporation can now produce a very muscular "monster salmon" which can grow up to three times as fast as normal salmon do.
#5 Science can now produce cats that glow in the dark. A genetically modified cat created by scientists named Mr. Green Genes was the very first fluorescent cat in the United States. But Mr. Green Genes was not the first "glow in the dark cat" in the world. That honor went to a cat created by a team of scientists in South Korea.
#6 In Japan, scientists have discovered that they can grow rat organs inside of mice. The researchers hope to use the same technology to grow human organs inside of pigs.
#7 But Japan is not the only one doing this kind of research. In Missouri, entities that are part pig and part human are being grown with the goal of providing organs for human transplants.
#8 Scientists at Rockefeller University have injected human genes into mice. These "humanized mice" are being used to study the spread of the hepatitis C virus.
#9 U.S. scientists have discovered that they can actually "grow" new human organs from scratch. The following is a quote from a recent Newsweek article....
It might sound like science fiction, but growing new organs from scratch has already become reality. In addition to bladders, scientists have engineered new skin, bone, cartilage, corneas, windpipes, arteries, and urethras.
#10 Believe it or not, a company in Canada known as Nexia has actually taken goats and has genetically modified them to be part spider. The genetic modification process causes these "spider goats" to produce spider silk protein in their milk. This spider silk protein is collected, purified and spun into incredibly strong fibers. These fibers are apparently more durable than Kevlar, more flexible than nylon, and much stronger than steel.
This makes me so angry I want to commit terrorism on GMO corporations. I am prepared to join Al Qaeda if they commit terrorism against GMO corporations.
Originally posted by gabby2011
Scientists who think that they can play God, have been messing with the nature of things for quite some time, and I think its getting worse. I used to have nightmares about "mad scientist" types...who's quest for knowledge and control , coupled with a disregard for anything sacred , was taking humanity into a very dark abyss.
There has to be a line somewhere in the sand, about what is going to extremes, in the name of science.
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by MIDNIGHTSUN
This makes me so angry I want to commit terrorism on GMO corporations. I am prepared to join Al Qaeda if they commit terrorism against GMO corporations.
Not sure who the original author of this quote is, but I can assure you, this is not a healthy thought to be having....
Custom is no more, but vice is considered noble. Men will run away with boys, women will not want to be women, but appear with impunity as men themselves, people will mix with impunity with animals and beget hybrids. And hybrids of hybrids will be numberless in the streets of the cities, without being destroyed.
These mice are glowing because scientists inserted a gene found in certain bioluminescent jellyfish into their DNA. That gene is a recipe for a protein that glows green when hit by blue or ultraviolet light. The protein is present throughout their bodies. As a result, their skin, eyes and organs give off an eerie light. Only their fur does not glow.
Created by Tony Perry and Teru Wakayama at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., these mice draw attention to how powerful genetic engineering has become. They also underscore the importance of green fluorescent protein, or GFP. The glowing protein is now a widely used biological highlighter that helps scientists find and study genes more quickly. But few noticed when Osamu Shimomura, then a scientist at Princeton, discovered GFP 40 years ago.
Originally posted by irsuccubus
The one about the pig/human hybrids makes me think of that Seinfeld episode where Kramer helps the pig man escape from the hospital, lol.
Originally posted by gabby2011
Scientists who think that they can play God, have been messing with the nature of things for quite some time, and I think its getting worse. I used to have nightmares about "mad scientist" types...who's quest for knowledge and control , coupled with a disregard for anything sacred , was taking humanity into a very dark abyss.
There has to be a line somewhere in the sand, about what is going to extremes, in the name of science.
Originally posted by purplemer
Originally posted by gabby2011
Scientists who think that they can play God, have been messing with the nature of things for quite some time, and I think its getting worse. I used to have nightmares about "mad scientist" types...who's quest for knowledge and control , coupled with a disregard for anything sacred , was taking humanity into a very dark abyss.
There has to be a line somewhere in the sand, about what is going to extremes, in the name of science.
comon its no so bad we having been messing with nature for thousands of years and naturalised many things. Pigs are not natural cretins, nor apples, cows etc. So what is wrong with gene splicing... In itself nothing these are tools and it is how these tools are used that is a problem....
Originally posted by purplemer
Originally posted by gabby2011
Scientists who think that they can play God, have been messing with the nature of things for quite some time, and I think its getting worse. I used to have nightmares about "mad scientist" types...who's quest for knowledge and control , coupled with a disregard for anything sacred , was taking humanity into a very dark abyss.
There has to be a line somewhere in the sand, about what is going to extremes, in the name of science.
comon its no so bad we having been messing with nature for thousands of years and naturalised many things. Pigs are not natural cretins, nor apples, cows etc. So what is wrong with gene splicing... In itself nothing these are tools and it is how these tools are used that is a problem....