Has Genetic Tinkering Destroyed Earth’s Pre-Biotic Chemistry?
By James Donahue
Ever since Monsanto and other chemical companies have been tinkering with the genetic composition of our seeds there has been an alarm by consumers from all around the world. While many Americans have bent over and accepted the corporate propaganda, reinforced by the government hired lackeys like the Cooperative Extension Service, GMO foods have been banned by other nations. Yet slowly and surely, the powerful corporations involved in the distribution of these altered hybrid crops have reached their tentacles into nearly every corner of the world, making sure that genetic altered seed is sewn even where it is not welcome.
So tenacious has the program been that farmers that erroneously received genetically altered seeds and put them in the ground, were legally prevented from replanting from the seeds produced by the crop the following year without first paying Monsanto for the rights. Litigation brought court rulings that favored corporate powers rather than the farmer, even in cases where the farmer clearly did not want the altered seed.
Now, to the horror of the farming community, it has been discovered that mutated versions of these tainted seeds are cross pollinating not only with other crops, but to their distant relatives in the wild. Thus GMO grains have infected the natural grasses of the world. And the poison has spread like a cancer.
So why should we be concerned about genetic alterations of our crops and our animals?
Biologist Danielle Bailey describes the problem on her website, Gravatar. She writes that the term GMO “refers to any organism that has had its genetic material – that is, its DNA – modified in some way through the use of genetic engineering techniques. This typically means gene deletions (or, parts thereof), gene insertions, gene mutations.”
While the GMO concerns largely involve product safety and the ability of farmers to maintain plant diversity and realize a profit for their yearly labors, there is another ugly side to the GMO disaster that few people, even in the science community, have considered. Indeed, the intrusion of genetically altered plants and the wide-spread contamination of plants is affecting “on a molecular level the pre-biotic chemistry” of the entire planet. Thus the question arises; is it possible that the damage is so massive that the planet is no longer able to revive itself in the event of another mass extinction?
Yale Clinical Neurologist Steven Hovella writes that the “pathways that led to the first living organisms on earth” remain among the great scientific mysteries. “This is not mysterious in that we don’t know how it could have happened, it’s just that it is extremely difficult to reconstruct how it actually did happen. Chemical reactions don’t fossilize, and so understanding a complex process that likely took millions of years to unfold billions of years ago is a bit challenging.”
Indeed, researchers are in general agreement that “in conditions based upon published literature about the early prebiotic ocean, certain metabolic pathways central to life could happen spontaneously and without the presence of enzymes. That last bit is critical – enzymes are proteins that act as catalysts, which are substances that make a chemical reaction happen . ... Enzymes are critical to life, as the biochemical reactions of life would occur at too slow a rate without them,” Hovella wrote.
If it was from pre-biotic chemistry that all life on Earth sprang at the start. And it is possible that the life cycle has had to restart more than once following earlier extinctions brought about by collisions of large meteorites, violent solar activity, alleged collapse of a vapor canopy or volcanism that temporarily tampered with the delicate balance of nature that sustains life.
After these events occurred, the Earth apparently had its own built-in emergency system for rekindling life through the pre-biotic chemistry that exists on molecular levels.
It is possible now that GMO tampering and world-wide pollution from overpopulation and careless stewardship is causing the Earth to die from the inside out. The altering of this important heart of the planet’s life cycle, the pre-biotic chemistry, is literally killing it. Our extinction this time may just be permanent.
Yet the genetic engineers are working hard to produce crops that will be resistant to the radical climate changes now sweeping our planet. As our population grows and climate changes take their toll on farm crop production, finding ways to mass produce more and healthier foods may be a key to the very survival of humanity. Thus we face a terrible dilemma.
NASA engineers are only now beginning to learn about pre-biotic chemistry through the exploration of Mars. Among the information sought by NASA researchers has been an understanding of just what went wrong to exterminate the possibility of life on the red planet.
By James Donahue
Ever since Monsanto and other chemical companies have been tinkering with the genetic composition of our seeds there has been an alarm by consumers from all around the world. While many Americans have bent over and accepted the corporate propaganda, reinforced by the government hired lackeys like the Cooperative Extension Service, GMO foods have been banned by other nations. Yet slowly and surely, the powerful corporations involved in the distribution of these altered hybrid crops have reached their tentacles into nearly every corner of the world, making sure that genetic altered seed is sewn even where it is not welcome.
So tenacious has the program been that farmers that erroneously received genetically altered seeds and put them in the ground, were legally prevented from replanting from the seeds produced by the crop the following year without first paying Monsanto for the rights. Litigation brought court rulings that favored corporate powers rather than the farmer, even in cases where the farmer clearly did not want the altered seed.
Now, to the horror of the farming community, it has been discovered that mutated versions of these tainted seeds are cross pollinating not only with other crops, but to their distant relatives in the wild. Thus GMO grains have infected the natural grasses of the world. And the poison has spread like a cancer.
So why should we be concerned about genetic alterations of our crops and our animals?
Biologist Danielle Bailey describes the problem on her website, Gravatar. She writes that the term GMO “refers to any organism that has had its genetic material – that is, its DNA – modified in some way through the use of genetic engineering techniques. This typically means gene deletions (or, parts thereof), gene insertions, gene mutations.”
While the GMO concerns largely involve product safety and the ability of farmers to maintain plant diversity and realize a profit for their yearly labors, there is another ugly side to the GMO disaster that few people, even in the science community, have considered. Indeed, the intrusion of genetically altered plants and the wide-spread contamination of plants is affecting “on a molecular level the pre-biotic chemistry” of the entire planet. Thus the question arises; is it possible that the damage is so massive that the planet is no longer able to revive itself in the event of another mass extinction?
Yale Clinical Neurologist Steven Hovella writes that the “pathways that led to the first living organisms on earth” remain among the great scientific mysteries. “This is not mysterious in that we don’t know how it could have happened, it’s just that it is extremely difficult to reconstruct how it actually did happen. Chemical reactions don’t fossilize, and so understanding a complex process that likely took millions of years to unfold billions of years ago is a bit challenging.”
Indeed, researchers are in general agreement that “in conditions based upon published literature about the early prebiotic ocean, certain metabolic pathways central to life could happen spontaneously and without the presence of enzymes. That last bit is critical – enzymes are proteins that act as catalysts, which are substances that make a chemical reaction happen . ... Enzymes are critical to life, as the biochemical reactions of life would occur at too slow a rate without them,” Hovella wrote.
If it was from pre-biotic chemistry that all life on Earth sprang at the start. And it is possible that the life cycle has had to restart more than once following earlier extinctions brought about by collisions of large meteorites, violent solar activity, alleged collapse of a vapor canopy or volcanism that temporarily tampered with the delicate balance of nature that sustains life.
After these events occurred, the Earth apparently had its own built-in emergency system for rekindling life through the pre-biotic chemistry that exists on molecular levels.
It is possible now that GMO tampering and world-wide pollution from overpopulation and careless stewardship is causing the Earth to die from the inside out. The altering of this important heart of the planet’s life cycle, the pre-biotic chemistry, is literally killing it. Our extinction this time may just be permanent.
Yet the genetic engineers are working hard to produce crops that will be resistant to the radical climate changes now sweeping our planet. As our population grows and climate changes take their toll on farm crop production, finding ways to mass produce more and healthier foods may be a key to the very survival of humanity. Thus we face a terrible dilemma.
NASA engineers are only now beginning to learn about pre-biotic chemistry through the exploration of Mars. Among the information sought by NASA researchers has been an understanding of just what went wrong to exterminate the possibility of life on the red planet.