Even after 12 years of clinical
trials, newly released drugs to the marketplace are often later pulled
for adverse affects. Remember thalidomide? New and reemerging diseases
continue to plague us, in spite of massive effort to eradicate them. Remember
toxic shock syndrome?
Remember Legionaires' disease,
the airborne Ebola virus, Lyme disease (brain disease from eating beef
from 'mad cows', West Nile encephalitis in New York City, the reemergence
of tuberculosis, Hantaviruses (carried by rodents, whose lethal effects
are similar to the dreaded sweating sickness years, 1485-1551).
Even with all their testing,
things are missed. Organisms
are too complicated to tamper with. No one comes close to having the
intelligence of Him who put it all together; but some 'scientists' become
consumed with this direction.
The lesson obviously has
yet to be learned:.Ecclesiastes
3:11 ".....no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning
to the end." Ecclesiastes
8:17 "Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out
the work that is done under the sun; because though a man labour to seek
it out, yet he finds it not; yea further; though a wise man think to know
it, yet he is not able to find it."
There are better
ways to health; better ways to deal with disease, than with genetically
altered organisms.
Genetically modified soybeans
drop the healthful phytoestrogen markedly and researchers have found hot
climates don't agree with Monsanto's
herbicide resistant soya beans,
causing stems to split open causing crop losses of up to 40 per cent, as
reported in New Scientist Magazine, November, 1999, page 25.
In warmer than 25ºC
climates, the plants appeared stunted, and in hot soils 45º C, the
differences were marked. Lower yields, heights and weights occurred in
the Monsanto beans. Most severe losses occurred during Georgia's two hottest
springs since the beans were launched in 1996. "In the years we saw the
problems, the soils were reaching 40º to 50º C," says Bill Vencill
of the University of Georgia. "Worse still, stems of virtually all the
Monsanto beans split open as the first leaves began to emerge compared
with between 50 and 70 per cent of the other test plants," says Vencill.
This as a result of changes in plant physiology caused by the addition
of genes making the plants resistant to Monsanto's Roundup herbicide. Plants
carrying these genetic alterations have been shown to produce up to 20%
more ligin, the tough, woody form of cellulose. "We think it might make
the plants more brittle," says Vencill.
"You can't cross breed a
tree and a carrot for example, as they are sexually incompatible, but with
molecular techniques, you can take a gene from a tree and implant it into
a carrot without dragging all the other genes from the tree with it." ...
Al Adamson, Calgene Inc. Source – California Agricultural Lands Project,
Genetic
Engineering of Plants, (1982), page 13.
How it works: A piece of
DNA is taken (by using enzymes) from one source and pasted into another.
Natural species' barriers
makes crosses between unlike living things impossible. Some scientists,
discontent with the way God set things up, want to attempt the impossible,
possibly with dire consequences. There just is no way to improve on the
way God has done things, because He's evidenced He's smarter. But leaving
God out of the picture allows scientists to pursue strange avenues.
In genetic engineering,
viruses (viral prompters) are used to transport into the target in order
to transform any plant by implantation of this foreign genetic material
into the plant's nuclear.DNA,
so it will multiply. Viruses can be the modification carriers (for antibiotic
resistant genes, for example) as they slip directly into a cell's DNA.
This places genetic engineering on dangerous ground.
Genetic 'engineering' (modification.–.aka
biotechnology) is highly imprecise, as genes normally operate with other
genes in a very complex manner, and differently so at different times,
triggering some functions off and others on, so moving a gene around does
not always produce the same result; example: Dolly, the cloned sheep, died
prematurely in 2003 after developing a lung disease. Dolly was the result
of 29 embryo
implants, producing the birth of one lamb.
Can
Humans Be Cloned Like Sheep?
It has never been established
that these foreign genes or their products humans eat unknowingly (we need
label laws) survive digestion. If they do, they could have damaging effects
on our intestinal flora, resulting in immune system deficiency.
The effect on the young
and elderly would be particularly devastating and those already ill might
be in for a wallop. "GM crops are not sufficiently selective and selective
specific for their major pests. They could inflict damage to beneficial
insects" …Arpad Pusztai, Royal Society of Edinburgh, principle scientific
officer till 1998, at Rowett Research Institute near Aberdeen, Scotland,
where his research showing feeding genetically modified potatoes to rats
altered their immune functioning and weight gain pattern, earned him a
dismissal. An independently selected review panel confirmed his study's
scientific credibility.
His work is now being published in medical journals such as Lancet.....continues
