This attitude of eradicating everything that stands in our way or
everything that causes us some discomfort is really the true nature of the
sickness
of humanity.
Around here people perceive snakes as bad and so they kill them ruthlessly.
My oldest daughter is allergic to poison ivy. Does that mean we should wipe
the plant off of the face of the Earth, or does it mean that we find the
reason that she in allergic and try to heal that! In the process she'll
become more aware of where her feet come to rest, what she must do to care
for her health, what the consequences are for being lazy and unaware.She'll
ask question such as why is there a plant that does this, what purpose does
it serve, why does it affect just me in my family, is this an imbalance
that is nutritional or spiritual?
Along with so many more things that it could teach.
Not to mention that this is the same process with a slight twist. And do we
have to shove soy products down the throat of every living human being. I
for one think not, and I'm looking forward to the day when you can read the
back of something in the grocery store that doesn't have partially
hydrogenated soy oil.
In Love Light and the Pursuit of Instilling Respect for this Miraculous
Creation,
Mr. Chris
> > > I have just been reading a report in New Scientist (14 Sept, p.7)
about
> > > research from USDA and Pioneer Hi-Bred resulting in the removal, in
part
> > by
> > > genetic manipulation, of proteins which cause most allergic reactions
to
> > > soya. I deplore GMOs for all the usual reasons but wonder whether
this
> > > particular manipulation could be regarded as acceptable. It involves
no
> > > insertion of 'foreign' genes, but a process apparently called gene
> > silencing
> > > by sense suppression: extra copies of the soybean's own gene that
codes
> > for
> > > a particular protein (P34) are spliced into the DNA, which leads the
> plant
> > > to destroy the relevant RNA and then the gene that makes it. This is
> said
> > > to affect no other proteins in the plant. Apart from a slim
possibility
> > of
> > > reversal by random mutation or viral infection, the suppression is
> > > permanently bred into the stock. Other allergenic proteins can be
> removed
> > > by conventional cross-breeding with wild strains lacking the
appropriate
> > > genes (apparently very few lack the P34 gene).
> > > This seems to be a much more benign form of genetic manipulation - I
> > wonder
> > > what BDNow! subscribers think about it? Tony N-S.
>
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