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rangerrebew:

Mad scientists say livestock need to be genetically modified to stop climate change

10/15/2020 / By Ethan Huff

The right-wing media is once again trumpeting its hate for all things natural with a fresh endorsement for biotechnology, which it claims will save the planet from mythological climate change.

WND, republishing an article from Real Clear Science, contends that gene editing – that is, the artificial reprogramming of the natural biosphere – is the only way to stop global warming from taking its toll on Earth and everything in it.

Livestock, trees, food crops and pretty much all living organisms are inherently flawed and require tampering with by “scientists” in order to optimize their impact on the planet. This is the narrative now being spread by the biotechnology lobby, anyway.

https://www.climate.news/2020-10-15-mad-scientists-say-livestock-genetically-modified-stop-climate-change.html

berdie:
Well it does aptly refer to them as Mad Scientists... :rolling:

catfish1957:
I foresee a day that the enviro-whackos and PETA prevent me from buying and cooking a Ribeye Steak.

Can not predict how I will react.  888mouth

Smokin Joe:
We used to do such things with breeding programs aimed at improving species for our benefit. Part and parcel of domestication is that there is some control over the nature and quality of the output. That may be inherently limited to natural variation, but seems to work, although breeding out some traits may inadvertently lead to bloodlines which have other specific problems. We see this with dogs, where breeds have specific weaknesses and strengths, some of which would not survive without human intervention. But to run willy-nilly through the genetic code of an organism modifying it to produce something different sounds like the stuff of SciFi/horror and could conceivably produce nonsustainable bloodlines.

At the root of it all is that after 4.6 billion years of climate change (giver or take a few million), do these people really thing they are going to halt that natural dynamic process in its tracks?  That alone would certify them as nutcases.

roamer_1:
As in the Days of Noah... And the prophets predict the same near the end (like, NOW).
Don't mess with what YHWH made.

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