Moderna’s Parent Company Now Spraying RNA Into Your Food

[mountaineer]

Moderna’s Parent Company Now Spraying RNA Into Your Food
Flagship Pioneering, the company that founded Moderna, is now genetically programming crops
Jon Fleetwood
24th July 2025
Modernity News

Flagship Pioneering—the biotech firm that founded Moderna—has launched a new company called Terrana Biosciences to spray crops with RNA designed to “actually go inside the plant,” move through its internal systems, persist under extreme environmental conditions, and become “heritable across plant generations,” using synthetic RNA constructs generated from “a vast library of RNAs” built with “advanced AI and computational models.”

Flagship Pioneering was originally founded as NewcoGen in 1999 by Noubar Afeyan and Ed Kania.

Afeyan, as founder and CEO and co-founder of Moderna, has established significant collaborations with U.S. government agencies such as NIAID, HHS, BARDA, FDA, and Operation Warp Speed, notably contributing to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine development.

News of Moderna’s new crop-spraying technology comes as EcoHealth Alliance’s DEFUSE proposal to DARPA is under renewed scrutiny for detailing plans to aerosolize chimeric coronavirus spike proteins, immune modulators, and self-spreading vaccines over humans using drones.

Those technologies were developed before the COVID pandemic, raising the question of whether the pandemic marked the covert launch of a premeditated biological spray operation—one that tested drone-based aerosol delivery of COVID-related substances on human populations under the guise of a global health emergency. ...

[mountaineer]

... Genetically programming crops with synthetic RNA sprays designed to persist in plant tissue.  ...

What could go wrong?

[Cyber Liberty]

... Genetically programming crops with synthetic RNA sprays designed to persist in plant tissue.  ...

What could go wrong?

Let Bill Gates block the sun and we'll find out!

[mountaineer]

'Programmable Plant Vaccines' - Founder Of Moderna Launches Company To Spray Crops With RNA To Change Gene Expression And Fight Climate Change
“Think of it like software. You can stick a USB drive into the computer and give it a set of instructions. This is the first time we’ve had a platform where we can actually do this in plants."
The WinePress
Jul 21, 2025

Flagship Pioneering, biotech company headed by the co-founder of Moderna (manufacturer of the mRNA Covid vaccines), along with other prominent figures with backgrounds in big-pharmaceutical and big-agricultural sectors, have launched a new biotech firm called Terrana Biosciences, with the goal of spraying crops with the same RNA technology used in Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines. The technology can alter the gene expression of the crops that are sprayed and becomes hereditary in the plants themselves. The company believes this latest innovation will help deal with climate change.

“Think of it like software,” CEO Ryan Rapp explained. “You can stick a floppy disk or USB drive into the computer and give it a set of instructions. This is the first time we’ve had a platform where we can actually do this in plants.”

This language echoes similar language used when Moderna launched their mRNA vaccines in 2020, describing the technology as an “operating system,” a “program” or “app,” and the “software of life.”  ...

Terrana reveals that their technology will permanently alter the genetic code of these plants and will pass on those traits for plant generations thereafter; completely rewiring and transforming the food supply system, assuming this technology receives widespread adoption. This would give crops a wider array of traits that include higher yields, increased shelf life, no seeds or pits, disease resistance, and much more.   ...

https://thewinepress.substack.com/p/programmable-plant-vaccines-founder

[DefiantMassRINO]

[Bigun]

God save us!

[GtHawk]

[PeteS in CA]

In real life, Moderna has no parent company. Moderna is a publicly traded company, on NASDAQ. Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital company, i.e. one of Moderna's shareholders (unless they sold their stock).

How much more of the article is false?

[mountaineer]

 Noubar Afeyan founded both companies, according to Flagship's website.

... Afeyan and Flagship Pioneering Managing Partner Doug Cole launched a months-long exploration inside Flagship Labs, the enterprise’s innovation foundry. At first, the venture was merely a numbered prototype company or “ProtoCo:” LS18.   ...  In early 2010, LS18 was renamed Moderna  ...

[Cyber Liberty]

Noubar Afeyan founded both companies, according to Flagship's website.

Thanks for exposing that half truth....

[PeteS in CA]

More like 1/5-truth, if that much. Moderna was founded in 2010 by:

* Derrick Rossi - Stem cell biologist

* Timothy A. Springer - Immunologist

* Kenneth R. Chien - MD, specialist in cardiovascular science

* Robert S. Langer - Biotechnologist, chemical engineer

* Noubar Afeyan - Venture capital investor

- Bogey-Moderna still has no "parent company", contrary to the thread title.
- Terrana Biosciences is not corporately related to Bogey-Moderna.
- Flagship Pioneering was and probably still is one of Bogey-Moderna's several early investors. It should not be necessary to point this out, but when a venture capital firm invests in a start-up, the terms of the high-risk investment usually include one of the venture capital partners becoming a board member. In Bogey-Moderna's case, Afeyan is Moderna's Board Chairman.
- Afeyan is not on Terrana Biosciences' Board.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

In real life, Moderna has no parent company. Moderna is a publicly traded company, on NASDAQ. Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital company, i.e. one of Moderna's shareholders (unless they sold their stock).

How much more of the article is false?

Shhhh, they're too busy reading their rage bait!

[mountaineer]

It's curious that the actual subject of the thread - the safety of our food - draws no comment.

[jafo2010]

Safety of our food...now that is the greatest oxymoron.

I hope Kennedy gets his way on all this poison we are consuming.  End the nonsense!

[mountaineer]

EPA Registers Novel Pesticide Technology for Potato Crops
Released on December 22, 2023
EPA Press Release

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has registered biopesticide products containing the new active ingredient Ledprona for three years, a timeframe that is consistent with EPA’s approach to other novel biopesticide products. Ledprona is a new type of pesticide that relies on a natural mechanism--called RNA interference (RNAi)--used by plants and animals to protect against disease. EPA supports advancements in novel pesticide technology because this technology replaces more toxic chemical-based pesticides, provide an additional tool for farmers to address challenges of climate change, and aids in resistance management.

Ledprona is a sprayable double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) product that targets the Colorado potato beetle (CPB), a major pest of potato crops grown in the United States, including in the potato-growing states of Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. The CPB feeds heavily on potato plant foliage. If left uncontrolled, CPB will eat and destroy the leaves of the plant. If this occurs around the time of flowering, the plant may not produce potatoes. The CPB is also known to rapidly develop resistance to chemical-based insecticides. This sprayable dsRNA product kills the pest by “silencing” the CPB gene needed to produce the PSMB5 protein, whose role is essential to keeping the CPB alive, without resulting in a genetically modified organism. This RNAi-based pesticide is the first sprayable dsRNA pesticide in the world allowed to be used commercially and sprayed on plants.  ...