The following is a quote from an email I received today regarding the approval of new GM tech in Australia:
Next week Dr Michael Antoniou, Reader in Molecular Genetics at King’s College London School of Life Sciences will be visiting Melbourne. He is here to discuss his concerns with a range of new genetic engineering techniques that the Federal Government is currently proposing not to regulate.
If the Government deregulates these techniques anyone from amateur biohackers – to industry – would be free to use them to genetically modify plants, animals and microbes. And they could enter our food chain and our environment with no safety testing and no labelling. The results could be catastrophic.
The key phrase is ‘proposing not to regulate‘, closely followed by ‘no safety testing‘ and ‘no labelling‘.
Genetic modification is here to stay and we have to accept that, but we do not have to accept a wild, wild west style free-for-all. Surely an ethical approach is not too much to ask from our government, even the Liberals?
The ‘GM 2.0: What the Government isn’t telling you’ forum is being held next Monday:
6.30 (for a 7pm start) – 9pm, Monday 20th March
William Angliss Institute: Rm. A337, Building A, 555 La Trobe St., Melbourne
Please email Louise Sales <louise.sale@foe.org.au> for a ticket if you can attend [they’re free].
If not, please get people talking about this issue. Isn’t it time our opinions were heard? Corporations may stand to make a lot of money out of this, but you and I will be the bunnies who have to live with it.
cheers
Meeks
Meeka's Mind 
March 16th, 2017 at 11:33 am
This all scares me. I don’t think the people who do this have any idea what the future outcomes of all this manipulation will be. If history has taught us anything, science without thought and consciousness is a bad idea. 😦
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March 17th, 2017 at 9:14 am
Yeah. Sadly, the naked ape will always reach for the bright shiny fruit, even if it hangs out over an abyss.
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March 14th, 2017 at 7:35 pm
or, have a go with this. I have had to remove it from my phone because I was playing too much. it’s free, doesn’t take much memory (GB or yours!) and is beautifully ‘soft’ to play. Go on, give it a go 😉 Fewer calories than chocolate cake and will make you smile throughout.
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March 14th, 2017 at 7:20 pm
oh man. Go and look at DVBerkom’s lovely ocean videos for 5 minutes to reset.
x
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March 14th, 2017 at 11:19 pm
lol – I probably should. 😀
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March 14th, 2017 at 11:23 pm
And I tagged you with something on twit. 😉🌼
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March 14th, 2017 at 5:15 pm
It would be much better if the phrase was ‘Proposing not to licence’.showing that someone in the Australian Government had some concerns they needed to have satisfied before any company was able to apply this tecnnology.
I am hugely against Monsanto and the lack of ethics they apply in this field. I’d hate to see them free to apply the same lack in Australia.
xxx Gigantic Hugs xxx
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March 14th, 2017 at 11:20 pm
Me too. It would be open slather.
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March 14th, 2017 at 4:44 pm
Every one of these types of stories always calls to my mind Blade Runner and all the genetic manipulation shown in that classic film. I still wonder if that’s where we’re going to end up. It’s a scary world when those in power won’t take responsibility *sigh*
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March 14th, 2017 at 11:24 pm
lol – Rutger Hauer was my pin-up for a while. 😀 With the GM tech though, we’re like the little Dutch boy sticking his finger in the hole in the dyke. Nothing will change for the better until something truly awful happens. Then it’ll be ‘oh dear, we didn’t know /that/ was possible!’ So this is really just making a noise so they have to take some blame when the shit does hit the fan.
Sorry, humans depress me sometimes.
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March 15th, 2017 at 12:12 am
You’re right: they’ll wait till the genie is out of the bottle before trying to regulate the resulting chaos… I reckon there’s a good book in there somewhere 🙂
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March 16th, 2017 at 10:02 am
-sigh- I like my dystopia in small, manageable doses. 😦
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