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10 Aug 16
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science is lovely until you kill everyone and every other animal on the planet.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18503_how-biotech-company-almost-killed-world-with-booze.html
If you want to skip the link, here's the abbreviated story...
Scientists created a spliced corn variety that would convert itself into useful by products
instead of just decomposing normally. It would produce alcohol so it could be used as fuel.
but the alcohol would enter the root system of the soil - All plants can use it in tiny amounts
2 parts per million... but the GMO strain poisoned the soil to 17 parts per million. So every
plant would die of alcohol poisoning. Killing all vegetation in the planet.
This was going to be released, but just as a precaution they double checked their work
in a real world environment in a sealed shed. All the plants died.
So what has got by them - what has been released with future ramifications.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18503_how-biotech-company-almost-killed-world-with-booze.html
If you want to skip the link, here's the abbreviated story...
Scientists created a spliced corn variety that would convert itself into useful by products
instead of just decomposing normally. It would produce alcohol so it could be used as fuel.
but the alcohol would enter the root system of the soil - All plants can use it in tiny amounts
2 parts per million... but the GMO strain poisoned the soil to 17 parts per million. So every
plant would die of alcohol poisoning. Killing all vegetation in the planet.
This was going to be released, but just as a precaution they double checked their work
in a real world environment in a sealed shed. All the plants died.
So what has got by them - what has been released with future ramifications.
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GM cucumbers ?
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GMO human babies that are immune to Roundup be along soon.
Bye bye Honey Bees it was nice knowing you.  |
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still doing their thing? never learned the lesson
leave nature alone? you can't do better genetically. loses vitamins and nutrition. kills indian farmers with costs. profit hungry bandits will kill us all. |
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Hope they destroyed all vestiges of their samples - or did
they just put it on a shelf for a future student to take home? |