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Synthetic Biology: Food that scares even Frankenstein

“WITHIN 50 YEARS WE COULD HAVE MORE LIFE FORMS INVENTED IN A LAB THAN WE HAVE EVER IDENTIFIED IN NATURE.” – Fidelity Investments

“This year [Evolva] will release a product that has been created by genetically modified yeast that converts sugars to vanillin. IT WILL BE THE FIRST MAJOR SYNTHETIC-BIOLOGY FOOD ADDITIVE TO HIT SUPERMARKETS.” – Nature.com

This thread is dedicated to SSS, lover of all things Monsanto, and he should get a massive boner over this.

I graduated high school in 1970. Never could I have imagined THE SHIT that passes for food today … and I read a lot of SciFi stuff. I can’t imagine the shit-food my grand-kids will be eating when they’re my age.

Made-up franken-foods that never existed in nature …. this can’t possibly end well.

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New Form of GMO Sneaking Into Food Supply This Year

Old-Thinker News | March 17, 2014

By Daniel Taylor

A Switzerland based company called Evolva has developed a synthetic vanilla that is set to be released in 2014. The vanilla is created using a process of genetic engineering called synthetic biology.

Synthetic biology, according to a 2005 European Commission paper is “…the engineering of biology… the synthesis of complex, biologically based (or inspired) systems which display functions that do not exist in nature.” Unlike the older science of splicing genes from different species together, synthetic biology is seeking to create whole new organisms that do not exist on earth.

Evolva’s synthetic vanilla is created by inserting computer coded DNA into yeast. This new method of genetic engineering is called “natural” by Evolva.

Environmental organizations like Friends of the Earth have recognized the potential danger posed by synthetic biology. In its Synthetic Biology Vanillin fact sheet, FoE points out the distinct lack of oversight regarding the health impact of ingesting these engineered ingredients. The organization has launched a campaign called No Synbio Vanilla to tell ice cream makers Haagen Dazs, Dreyers, Baskin Robbins and others not to use synthetic biology vanilla.

Foods that have been genetically modified in the “traditional” method have been linked to sterility in hamsters. The dramatic rise in food allergies has also been speculated to be linked to GMO foods. What health impacts will emerge after eating foods with synthetic DNA that our environment and our bodies have never before encountered?

The Big Picture

Synthetic biology goes well beyond engineering our food. Geneticist Craig Venter is a pioneer in the field of synthetic biology. In 2010 the media hailed his team’s success in creating “the first self-replicating species we’ve had on the planet whose parent is a computer.”

Currently, companies cannot patent naturally occuring DNA. Synthetic biology will allow syn-bio companies a loophole through patent laws. “One could theoretically upload a DNA sequence onto a computer, “print out” an exact copy of that DNA sequence, and patent the synthetic DNA sequence as an invention,” Gene Watch reports.

Google founder Larry Page met with Craig Venter in California at the Edge billionaires meeting in 2010. Also present were representatives from the State department, Bill Gates, Anne Wojcicki, Bill Joy and dozens of other tech company CEO’s and scientists.

The Edge Billionaire meetings have discussed the future of genetic engineering, biocomputation and re-designing humanity in a transhumanist era. Physicist Freeman Dyson described the individuals leading this group as having god-like power to create entirely new species on earth in a “New Age of Wonder”. He describes them as:

“…a new generation of artists, writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses, might create an abundance of new flowers and fruit and trees and birds to enrich the ecology of our planet.”

In the societal divide that will inevitably ensue over the development of these technologies, Fred Charles Ikle, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy under President Reagan, sees a possibility of “Annihilation from Within.” “The prospect is that in the decades ahead, biotechnology – together with other sciences – may fundamentally change the human species and thus pose an elemental threat to democracy, the world order, and indeed to all civilizations,” writes Ikle.

The technological elite are engaged in a mission to attain full spectrum dominance over life and its complex processes, and in the process re-write the genetic code of the planet.

http://www.oldthinkernews.com/2014/03/new-form-of-gmo-sneaking-into-food-supply-this-year/

 

DO NOT THROW AWAY YOUR TEA LEAVES!! — yet another Copfuk story

Copfuks need to die.

April 2, 2014

LEAWOOD, KS — An innocent family was terrorized by a paramilitary SWAT raid on their home that lasted 2.5 hours; yielding nothing. It took the family 2 years and $25,000 to discover the real reason their house was targeted: discarded tea leaves in their garbage and the purchase of indoor gardening equipment.

‘You’re in the wrong house!’

Robert and Adlynn Harte discovered how easily an innocent family can become the targets of state-sanctioned violence when a SWAT team showed up at their home looking for contraband.  The terrifying experience took place at 7:30 a.m. on April 20, 2012.

“It was just like on the cops TV shows. It was like ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ ready to storm the compound.”

The Harte home was surrounded by paramilitary police.  There was a sudden pounding at the door, which Robert quickly answered.  If he had delayed opening the door, a man carrying a battering ram was prepared to breach the front door.

Robert was pushed to the floor and made to clasp his hands behind his head as strange men poured into his home.  Rifle-toting, armored troopers stood over him with rifles screaming, “Where are the children in the home?”

Bob Harte demonstrates how he was forced to the floor as masked SWAT agents raided his home. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

The Hartes’ 7-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son had both been sleeping in their bedrooms, and were “shocked and frightened” as they were shuffled into the living room and made to watch as the invaders snooped through their belongings.

“We just kept saying ‘You’re in the wrong house!’”

Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies and police canines tore through the family’s living space for 2.5 hours.  They took interest with the Hartes’ indoor garden, which was a family project to grow vegetables such as tomatoes, squashes, and melons in the basement.

The Hartes said that the deputies “made rude comments” and implied their son was using marijuana.  Yet the deputies left empty handed.  A receipt was left, saying “no items taken.”

‘Operation Constant Gardener’

The Hartes had no idea why they had been targeted.  They were not involved in any illegal activities and had impeccable records — good enough to pass the rigorous background checks to get clearance with the Department of Defense.

The department would not give them any answers about the raid, only that they were looking for narcotics.  No records were provided willingly.

“We were chosen more or less at random for this drug raid and we were like ‘what do you mean we can’t get the records? They raided our house,” Addie explained.

The family was forced to sue the department to get any answers about the incident — a year later.  Documents later showed that their hydroponics equipment that had played a role in attracting the attention of SWAT.  The police believed they were growing the forbidden cannabis plant inside their home using grow lights and hydroponics.

The couple discovered that the raid even had a name.  It had been a part of “Operation Constant Gardener” — a drug sweep conducted by multiple police agencies in the region.

“With little or no other evidence of any illegal activity, law enforcement officers make the assumption that shoppers at the store are potential marijuana growers, even though the stores are most commonly frequented by backyard gardeners who grow organically or start seedlings indoors,” the couple stated in a lawsuit.

Bob Harte displays the indoor garden his family cultivates. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

‘This isn’t a communist country’

It took an additional year and $25,000 to get the rest of the story.

It turned out that the police had first seen Bob Harte at a local hydroponics shop called The Green Circle in August 2011.  Harte exited the store with a small bag, prompting police a surveillance effort.  For months, cops began snooping through the family’s trash.

The shopkeeper of the hydroponics store, Bennie Palmentere, said he was disturbed that government spies were sorting through his customers’ trash.  “This isn’t a communist country,” he said to KSHB.

The 5:00 a.m. garbage searches yielded some plant-like materials which they assumed to be marijuana.  Using an unreliable field-testing kit, the plant material created a false-positive for marijuana, and a search warrant was acquired.

“We cannot understand how the low level of police work, which included using an unreliable field test, could have permitted a SWAT-style raid on our home,” the Hartes said in a public statement.

The plant material was never taken to a lab to pursue more definitive results.  The warrant was handed out with little effort or evidence on the part of the police.

Bob knew instantly what the “plant-like materials” were: his wife’s discarded tea leaves from her daily hot beverages.

“You shouldn’t have to have that kind of money to find out why people came raiding your house like some sort of police state.”

“If this can happen to us and we are educated and have reasonable resources, how does somebody who maybe hasn’t led a perfect life supposed to be free in this country?” said Addie Harte to the AP.

The fact that it took 2 years and $25,000 to get the complete details about how their home was targeted a the source of contention for the family.

“This not what justice in the United States is supposed to be,” Addie Harte said.  “You shouldn’t have to have $25,000, even $5,000. You shouldn’t have to have that kind of money to find out why people came raiding your house like some sort of police state.”

The Hartes’ experience sheds some valuable light on a dilemma that is faced all over the country.  Their family is fortunate to have the resources and patience necessary to fight through expensive lawsuits required to provide answers about the investigation in which they were involved.  Exposure is the best way to push back on the police state.  However, most people would not have the resources to to do the same.  The majority of the time, clandestine police raids are allowed to remain shrouded in secrecy.

The plant material was never taken to a lab to pursue more definitive results.  The warrant was handed out with little effort or evidence on the part of the police.

Bob knew instantly what the “plant-like materials” were: his wife’s discarded tea leaves from her daily hot beverages.

“You shouldn’t have to have that kind of money to find out why people came raiding your house like some sort of police state.”

“If this can happen to us and we are educated and have reasonable resources, how does somebody who maybe hasn’t led a perfect life supposed to be free in this country?” said Addie Harte to the AP.

The fact that it took 2 years and $25,000 to get the complete details about how their home was targeted a the source of contention for the family.

“This not what justice in the United States is supposed to be,” Addie Harte said.  “You shouldn’t have to have $25,000, even $5,000. You shouldn’t have to have that kind of money to find out why people came raiding your house like some sort of police state.”

The Hartes’ experience sheds some valuable light on a dilemma that is faced all over the country.  Their family is fortunate to have the resources and patience necessary to fight through expensive lawsuits required to provide answers about the investigation in which they were involved.  Exposure is the best way to push back on the police state.  However, most people would not have the resources to to do the same.  The majority of the time, clandestine police raids are allowed to remain shrouded in secrecy.

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http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/harte-family-raid/