I think the truth is that nature is not flawed, not is any plant or creature. It was not designed by accident as is the premise of orthodox scientists. The nature of the intelligence behind life and evolution whether inherent in, a byproduct of or a parent of the system is still subject to speculation. Nature features the most advanced nanotechnology in the universe.

Man with all his intelligence is mostly unable to duplicate the bio technology and nano machinery that a system supposedly void of intelligence has created through trial and error. Of course the system is not technically void of intelligence, it produced mankind. Can something that is not intelligent produce a creature of intelligence?

What is flawed is not nature but our perspective that it is broken and needs to be fixed; rather we need to better understand how to integrate, and modify or enhance in a holsitic manner.

The flawed nature perspective is vital to the existence of a number of profit centers. The question is could the desire to maintain these profit centers modulate thinking, perceptual choices and decision making?

For example as I have previously put forth the notion that insect pests, are actually an important and beneficial component of the eco system culling diseased, nutrition poor unhealthy, or genetically damaged plants or plant cell lines.

Nutrient poor soil increases the need for pesticides and petroleum (oil) based fertilizers. Spreading rock dust (minerals) in the soil and or some seaweed or algae is the lower cost, lower profit, more effective solution compared to genetically modified plants, pesticides, and fertilizers made from petroleum. This is how we feed the world as well as switching to a base food of amaranth and perhaps quinoa.

Individuals in corporations subject to desire for profit induced ignorance, choices of fictional perspective and risk taking cannot be allowed to manage such a thing as genetic modification because the results can affect the whole body. This management role would need to be assigned to government or as it has been re-termed as “The Collective” which is inherently void of egoic intention.

Then entire ecosystem and each organism or cell component in it would need to be thoroughly understood at the molecular level before anything could actually be applied. We have not mapped this out yet and this is where researchers should be directing their energy. The first step is actually more powerful computers. Perhaps quantum computers or some type of massive parallel processing using all our computers will need to be developed along with a database; I think Google has one geared toward scientific data they are launching. I would also recommend the idea of a reverse engineering mechanism where a genetic change can be reversed system wide if needed.

Based on current understanding we know that soil Remineralization can eliminate the flaws genetic modification attempts to address.

Pesticides and genetically modified plants have also been indicated as factors in what may be called a compound effect where for example they weaken the immune system or resistance to some other factor that as a result proves lethal.

Is everything being taken into account for example extreme weather blowing pollen to unintended places? Pollen with it’s 2.5% to 61% protein content with altered proteins causing allergies and sinusitis?

Genetically modified foods can produce new unnatural protein combinations. Protein combinations actually represent biological programming, to alter any part of the program code can cause bugs or at worse the system to crash. Bees avoid fields sown with GM crops favoring non GM crops fields. That they can distinguish them and avoid may imply something. These altered proteins such as the prions are found in Mad Cow disease. In other words these irregular proteins can throw a wrench in an entire biological system.

This area of science is not so simple two molecules can look to be exactly the same yet there can be a subtle difference in behavior if one of constituents of the molecule has a left spin or a right spin. When man is producing things it can get the spin wrong in the manufacturing process.

The case against genetic modification and the resulting not understood consequences: In 1989, a large outbreak of a new, disabling, and in some cases deadly autoimmune illness called eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) was traced to one source of L-tryptophan. The bacterial culture used to synthesize tryptophan by a major Japanese manufacturer, Showa Denko KK, had been genetically modified several times to increase tryptophan production during the 1980s. Along with the higher tryptophan concentrations in the modified culture media, the purification process had also been streamlined to reduce costs, and a purification step that used charcoal absorption to remove some impurities had been omitted. The manufacturer maintained that this process modification allowed another bacterial metabolite The specific impurity (or impurities) responsible for the toxic effects was never firmly established, although several molecular impurities were proposed as the cause. Some subtle, if not undetectable change at the molecular level, resulting from genetic modification screwed up the chemical processes in the human body to a lethal degree.

Some companies seem to want to own a monopoly on seeds by creating and artificial need for which they have the solution. Other companies kill off natural maintenance and control mechanisms for insects labeled as pests, creating an artificial requirement for their product to control the populations. Not to mention the plants genetically engineered to be tolerant to glyphosate which are known as Roundup Ready crops. Modifications made to make plants resistant to the herbicide (weed killer) may produce unknown affects. Glyphosate kills plants because of the effect on plant hormones, it also affects human hormones specifically neurotransmitters. Glyphosate's mode of action is to inhibit an enzyme involved in the synthesis of the amino acids tyrosine, tryptophan and phenylalanine necessary for the creation of neurotransmitters. Saturating the top soil with Glyphosate leads to airborne weed killer that with extreme weather conditions and drought could become more prevalent. Glyphosate kills the ground cover promoting the creation of huge dust storms like the ones that devastated the United States and Canada from 1930 to 1936 and in some places till 1940 giving rise to the term The Dust Bowl, which resulted in major relocations of the population. Based on my database of biochemical pathways this would cause depression, fatigue, weight gain etc.
All this the result of creating a dependency on a monpoly product.

We don’t need pesticides and petroleum based fertilizer all we need to do is remineralize the surface soil this lasts a good five years it also traps CO2 makes the crops drought, disease and pest resistant, and create nutrient rich produce that keeps us healthy so we can eliminate 100 million trips to the doctor each year.

Natural profits vs. Unnatural profits.

Natural profits come from creating a product or service needed in a natural environment. Unnatural profits are created when humans create a situation that creates a need for a product or service that does not exist naturally. Unnatural profits can also come from a false assumption that creates the illusion of a need for a product or service.

Indeed Richard. Interesting.

peace

Note that: U.S. courts ruled in two decisions that the U.S. Department of Agriculture erred by giving approval to genetically engineered alfalfa and to field tests for a genetically engineered grass. The rulings, the first of their kind, found individuals in the USDA failed to abide by federal environmental laws. What influenced that?

Genetically Engineered Food Alert site run by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) is interesting. Click my name.