Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian Aug 30, 2024
Have you heard? Gene-edited crops and livestock are here to solve all our problems!
Yes, everything from pandemics to the cost of living crisis to climate change is about to get so much better.
Isn’t that a relief?
Five days ago, the WaPo reported that “gene-editors” were:
working to genetically engineer the cow microbiome — and in the process, eliminate methane emissions.
Three weeks earlier the same outlet reported on gene-edited trees for making paper.
In the UK we can expect the first gene-edited wheat to be harvested this year. In the US, gene-edited salad leaves aren’t far behind.
Japan approved “super-tomatoes” that can “lower your blood pressure” years ago now.
Genetically edited potatoes are being created in South America. Wheat in Egypt. Cotton and maize in Ethiopia.
Back in 2022, I reported that gene-edited foods were already being sold to the public as “cheaper”, “more nutritious” and “preventing future pandemics”.
Two weeks ago The Japan Times declared:
“It’s time to embrace a new era of gene-edited food
Now, in case you’re concerned, let me assure you they are talking about gene-edited food, which is great, NOT genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which we all know are a bad thing.
But what’s the actual difference?
It’s hard to tell sometimes, not least because the MSM still tend to use the terms interchangeably (for example the above Japan Times article uses “gene-edited” in the headline, but “GMOs” in the sub-head).
Let’s check the UK government’s handy DEFRA fact sheet from 2021 for some clarification [emphasis added]:
Gene editing should not be confused with genetic modification (known as GM). Genetically modified organisms are those where DNA from a different species has been introduced into another. Gene edited organisms generally do not contain DNA from different species, they contain changes that could be made more slowly using traditional breeding methods.
…did you spot the super special loophole word?
Let’s zoom in for a closer look.
Gene edited organisms GENERALLY do not contain DNA from different species
Hmmm. What an odd place to insert the word “generally”. A cynical person might say its presence renders the entire sentence meaningless.
Nevermind, just rest assured that there definitely is a difference, even if that difference happens to be largely regulatory.
Again, from the DEFRA fact sheet:
At the moment, following a European Court of Justice ruling in 2018, gene editing is regulated in the same way as genetic modification. The UK Government is consulting on changing these rules in England, allowing gene editing research to be used to produce beneficial crops and livestock
Ah, interesting…..
Would it surprise you to learn that the UK government has now changed those rules, via the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023.
As of now the previous regulation on GM organisms no longer applies to “genetically edited” organisms.
The Act itself eschews “Genetically Edited” in favour of “Precision bred” (probably because it sounds more natural), and defines a “precision bred” organism as follows:
(2)For the purposes of this Act an organism [animal or plant] is “precision bred” if—
(a)any feature of its genome results from the application of modern biotechnology,
(b)every feature of its genome that results from the application of modern biotechnology is stable,
(c)every feature of its genome that results from the application of modern biotechnology could have resulted from traditional processes,
whether or not in conjunction with selection techniques, alone, and
(d)its genome does not contain any feature that results from the application of any artificial modification technique other than modern
biotechnology.
…which still seems quite vague.
Certainly, the potential is there for the difference between “gene-edited” (GE) and “genetically modified” (GM) to become largely semantic.
I noted in my previous piece that the pro-gene editing PR campaign was global. And the UK’s push for de-regulation is likewise mirrored worldwide – something which is always noteworthy in and of itself.
In February of this year, the European Union voted to “ease regulation of gene-edited crops”.
Three weeks ago, the US-based Genetic Literacy Project headlined “In hopes to cut pesticide use Switzerland edges closer to legalizing crop gene editing”
Just a few days ago, it was reported that ‘Food Standards Australia New Zealand’ (FSANZ) would be using a “new definition” of genetically modified organisms that excluded gene-edited crops.
All this talk of de-regulating and “new definitions” should make everyone raise an eyebrow. Clearly, the potential is there for the mother of all loopholes.
The news is no better on the other side of the New Iron Curtain.
Russia has always been the nation most vocally against GMOs, banning their import, cultivation and distribution on Russian soil. This has been a source of much hope to those investing in the idea that Russia, and BRICS nations in general, are standing against the incipient dystopia unfolding in the West.
Sadly, however, Russia has been investing billions of rubles in “gene editing” since 2019.
China is going the same way. In May 2023 it was reported that:
After decades of bans, China is beginning to plant gene-edited crops
Exactly a year later, China officially approved gene-edited wheat for human consumption.
So, it looks like gene-edited crops are on the menu, no matter who wins the much-anticipated WWIII.
Governments and Big Farmer companies all over the world are hailing the rise of brand new totally brilliant “genetic editing” technology, leaving the regulations on stupid old-fashioned “genetic modification” guarding an empty room.
This is simply the way of the world in the post-Covid, post-truth age – where the powers-that-be reframe, redefine and reinterpret words as they deem necessary. Facts are temporary. Reality malleable. Edit wikipedia and you’ve changed history, if you ever need to you can just change it back.
So far we’ve been talking through the alleged differences between “gene-edited and “genetically modified”, maybe we should take a moment to discuss some similarities.
For example, both GE and GMO seeds and crops could be patented, handing huge amounts of power to a few international biotech giants to hold sway over seed supply, and therefore food supply.
As Politico reports:
“Patent war looms over Europe’s future supercrops – New rules on gene-edited seeds could pave way for half a dozen big suppliers to strengthen their market domination.
Likewise, genetically edited crops could be subject to Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTs) or “terminator seeds”, meaning they cannot reproduce naturally. This, it is argued, is necessary to protect intellectual property and prevent cross-breeding with wild or non-GM species.
Maybe that argument has some merit, but the real-world impact of sterile crops would be farmers entirely dependent on those same biotech giants for seeds every planting season.
So, let’s return to our opening question: What is the difference between “genetically modified” and “gene-edited”?
The answer is potentially quite simple.
“Genetically modified organisms” are a relatively new and largely experimental technology with the power to hand control of the food supply to a handful of biotech firms and which are subject to extensive legal regulation.
“Gene-edited foods” are a relatively new and largely experimental technology with the power to hand control of the food supply to a handful of biotech firms…and which are NOT subject to extensive legal regulation.
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British politicians turned a blind eye to the sexual abuse of children and actively covered up allegations over decades, an independent inquiry into historical sex offences in Westminster has found.
Church leaders said when homosexuality was legalised that it would give carte blanche to abuse kids
Elm House West Lynn childrens home Barnabus house and St marys Walthamstow were all named in the report
The UKcolumn said quote ” homosexual abuse in 16 london area boys homes was on an industrial scale ”
Strangely, The inquiry did not find evidence of an organised paedophile network in its examination of the period, covering the 1960s through until the ’90s.
But the report found there “have been significant failures by Westminster institutions in their responses to allegations of child sexual abuse”.
“This included failure to recognise it, turning a blind eye to it, actively shielding and protecting child sexual abusers and covering up allegations,” said the summary of the report.
The 173-page report, published on Tuesday, found several members of parliament in the 1970s and ’80s, including Peter Morrison and Cyril Smith, were “known or rumoured to be active in their sexual interest in children and were protected from prosecution in a number of ways”, by police, prosecutors and political parties.
Peter Morrison was the private secretary to Margaret Thatcher, the British prime minister at the time.
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The UK was, and probably is the leading proponent of gene editing. Terminator crops have been around for decades.
Most sheeple who took loaded jabs, they’ve bee gene edited. There’s more money in earlier deat, and all these so called benefits to less farts, more muscle, and super crops, it’s all about profit.
We carry a lot of garbage in our heads, or should I say ‘cells’, & it’s no different with our genes. Many genes appear to play no role in our current setup, and are from the past, when we were manufactured on another distant world. Human sheeple originated from another world.
The Russians are into gene editing, because they need to be in this field, and sure, there are going to be real none profit benefits, but they are unlikely to be realised in the bankrupt margin obsessed Nazi West.
The real deep state threat is the rise of seriously none human beings. Not the jabbed for shorter life spans, but a new breed of super beings which will be far superior to the chipped. In a CME world, tech is finished, but super beings could thrive.
In their paradigm, there is no God working on DNA and they are the first intelligence ever to do so, but their idea that random mistakes in gene-copying eventually gave rise to all the plants and animals is only that, an idea, and wrong, so they are up against an intelligence they do not know about
NCIENT PALESTINE HAD AN ADVANCED NAVY
3,300-year-old shipwreck discovered off the palestinian coast redefines ancient maritime historyT he ship’s location, far from land, suggests that ancient mariners had developed far more sophisticated navigation techniques than previously believed.
Palestine the land of jesus and the apostles, who were said to be fishermen, were belived to be very involved with the sea
These new findings prove this
Having examined so called gene editing and directed evolution closely and somewhat dispassionately, I couldn’t help but be drawn to the conclusion that about 99.9% percent of it is unadulterated GMO horseshit…like most current thing scientism…(it’s unlikely there is any MRNA in the pricks, either)..
You see, most imbeciles have yet to realize that the synthetic system that they have the misfortune of inhabiting… is predominantly grift and nonsense..
..new and ever more outrageous narratives have to be created to justify its existence… because this is what fucking useless wealthy people do to hold onto their sinecures and privileges..
..bullshit the muggles..
lest the muggles arouse from their slumbers, raise the black flag, roll up their sleeves and start slitting throats…
Most of the entropy in the system is actually propaganda…one of my favourite proofs of this and always earns a chuckle…are …wait for it..
Government ‘shutdowns’…now there’s a good idea..
STARMER THE COMMIE BASTARD
Jeremy Clarkson tears into ‘communist’ Keir Starmer and warns ‘he’ll ban meat next’
Jeremy Clarkson has launched a scathing attack on Labour leader and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, branding him a “full-on communist” and warning that his policies could lead to the banning of meat in the future.
It is known that Labour are considering a heavy tax on real meat
The outspoken TV personality is one of several people who took aim at Starmer’s approach to governance, particularly criticizing his stance on jailing UK demonstrators while ignoring BLM and Notting Hill carnival stabbings, and the mass rape of young girls in the Midlands by Muslims, his proposed attacks on smoking and private enterprise.
Sir Keir Starmer confirmed he is looking at banning smoking from outdoor spaces such as pub gardens recently, with a potential smoking ban extended to all outdoor public places.
This would make it illegal to smoke outside at a restaurant, or even in the smoking area of a nightclub.
Starmer has been accused of being the new Stalin as he ponders on removing yet more of our freedoms
Starmer is considering stopping old age pensions to well off pensioners
Asked about the reports, Starmer said: “My starting point on this is to remind everybody that over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking. That is a preventable death, it’s a huge burden on the NHS and, of course, it is a burden on the taxpayer, not all old people need their pensions, we must find ways to pay for all the new comers to Britain
Very large food storage and distribution centers were recently destroyed in the US who distributed modified foods ..
Too many people on the planet–traditional methods of farming will not sustain the augmentation of the subhuman scum. ZWOG has to develop these new artificial food technologies to feed the wogs. 7-8 billion ballooning wogs on the planet have to be fed someway to increase their numbers so they can continue inundating the West & replace/eliminate the white race via murders & miscegenation.
Amazing and diabolical that criminally insane scientists and their governments think they can create vegetables and animals superior to the gifts from our Divine Creator. Their desire to poison and destroy has absolutely no limits.
they will destroy the natural immunity balance
to fill the pockets of some wallstreet billioners .
they want eradicate all farmers in the world .
Nico X: you don’t half spew some bollox on here. There’s plenty of room on this planet for another 8 billion sheeple. The only problem is planning, and that curse called profit. There are huge empty swathes of the UK, even the fringes of urbanisation are poverty stricken, because of zero planning and the diabolical quest for profit and bonuses.
NO CARL JONES !
there is not more space for more waste + plastic users/producers !
thausends of containers + ships on seabets + ammunitions + nuklear waste .
masses of species erradicated by the worst species Human . tropical
woods burning since 100 years . woods creating their own rainwether.
now nomore : Southamerica + africa drying . arabiaKuweit regularly
every summer by 50 grade Celsius . Methane craters in Siberia .
chemtrails by uncle sam poisoning the air + NOT COOLING !
because you can see on >zoom earth< on every daytime greyish big
specks between the white clouds . white clouds reflecting heat
into space, greyish clouds not . they are heating ! its all made
by the known perpetrators like their wars to ruin this globe .
carl jones get a life and an education
you c and your natzis can just F off and talk bollox some place elee
i have not read one person who agrees with your clap trap
not one yet nico X has a big following
Harry Marsh: yes Harry, Nico X does have a very big thicko sheeple following, if we belive the rumours.
There are readers on here who agree with me. Some are too scared to come out, others have said they support me, and there’s been a refreshing use of appropriate language, on this site, and elsewhere.
The fact that reader read my comments, and then have a moan, reflects their own demons and prejudices.
I am not responsible for their problems, of why out of desperation, looking for simplistic answers to complicated problems, they end up soaking up the dribble that runs from Nico X gob.
Just think, Nico X thinks it’s a whiteoside when 700,000 Nazis chose to die. Very strange. He thinks Covid and Jabs are a whiteoside when more ethnics die, or become seriously ill, compared to whites? Yes, it’s all very odd.
antiJHWH: 9.44pm, how much had you had to drink, to scribble such utter rubbish?
>>> “Gene-Edited” vs “Genetically Modified” – What’s the difference? <<<
Makes NO Difference! @ least not 2 me..
Nico X is as unpopular as Carl Jones but likes inventing fans: also in the comments, someone seems not to have heard of the sea-faring Phoenicians, who monopolised world trade by keeping their geographical knowledge secret
people like lewis jones are claiming nicos fans aren’t real. Not true, numerous disciples or acolytes of Nico are out there. But many individuals are envious of Nico due to their own complexes and the radical revelation he has delivered to white humanity that the only way to white freedom and power is ‘The Book of the Law’ via his A.A. cult.
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Yvette is Nico X
more paranoia from lewis jones imagining other independent posters are nico x
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