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  • From: Tommy Tolson <healinghawk@earthlink.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] UCSF scientist tracks down suspect in honeybee deaths
  • Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 15:29:05 -0500

Well, now Horizontal Gene Transfer, the nightmare of the biotech industry, is fact. "Jumping the species barrier" is how Anthony Barnett, the Public Affairs Editor of /The Observer/ in London, put it. Professor Hans-Heinrich Kaatz has found the gene used to modify oil-seed rape (we call it canola) in the bacteria in bees' guts. Kaatz has a lot of cojones to release his finding, but he may save the human species by doing what he's done. A researcher who found that GM potatoes damaged the stomach linings of rats was sacked and had his work discredited. This issue will show everybody big enough to see that we do not have enough power to respond appropriately to our environment. We will not be able to get GM crops out of the fields, I predict, due to having no power over our economic affairs. The implications of Kaatz's research are huge. The potential for human extinction is one implication. Will we, the people, be able to seize sufficient power to prevent GM crops from ruining our food supply? I suspect we won't, but I would love to be surprised, and if people will stand up, I'll surely stand with you. I've been standing up for this for a couple of months now. I believe I'm responsible for Senator Barbara Boxer, Chair of the Senate Environment Committee, and other elected officials, knowing about CCD, the precursor to this issue. It was always this issue, to me, though. I practice shamanism. I knew, as soon as I read the first piece about CCD, that humans were in deep trouble. No one (but me) is willing to say this yet, but we are extinct if we can't get GM crops out of the fields and out of the environment. Traditional causal analysis will not detect a reason to panic, so many humans are deer in the headlights. HGT is not detectable by scientific methods until it has already happened. It's happened. We're fucked.

http://www.rense.com/general76/gent.htm <Rense.com>

Tommy Tolson




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