permaculture

[Tommy Tolson <healinghawk@earthlink.net>]

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.

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Tommy Tolson