John Rappoport – I’ll get to genetically modified people; but first, the background on the grand gene hype and propaganda operation—
Cancer.
The war against cancer has painted a picture of hope: genetic solutions.
This, despite the fact that there are no successful genetic treatments, across the board, for any form of human cancer.
The focus on genes is a diversion from obvious causes of cancer in the environment: industrial chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, food additives, and even pharmaceuticals.
This futile human gene-fix has a direct parallel in food crops: modify plants so they can grow despite drenching them with toxic pesticides. Continue reading
Joseph P Farrell – Mr. C.S. spotted this one, and it’s a doozie, if one stops to ponder carefully what’s being said. And I have to admit, when I read this, I felt sadly vindicated. Why? Because a few years ago, when blogging about the potential trans- or cross-species effects of GMOs, an interloper angrily accused me of saying things I wasn’t actually saying; my “potential trans-species effect” had been translated into an accusation that I was more or less saying that eating a bacon and egg breakfast doesn’t turn one into a pig or a chicken. My point rather was that with the lack of adequate long term trans-generational testing of GMOs, we did not really know what, if any, the trans-species effects might be, nor did we really know if they might be “cumulative” in nature.