Thursday, April 26, 2007
Dangerous Science
I have read that the FDA have now approved the use of phages, another name for live viruses, to be used as sprays on our food supply. Scientists have one that will kill listeria and are researching others that will kill E. coli and salmonella.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/07/eveningnews/main2072438.shtml
Should we rejoice at the new safety in our food? For me this is even worse than the McDonalds cooking directive to their staff – that burgers should be cooked at a certain temperature for a certain minimum time, in order to kill the bacteria from the faecal matter contained therein. My preference would be that they spend some time and money cleaning the shit out of their burger meat, rather than cooking it ‘safely’, killing the germs! (Ah! And you just thought their burgers just taste like crap! You didn’t realise that they actually contain it?!!!).
At least McDonalds are killing the bacteria in their meat with heat. To kill them with viruses is so incredibly risky!! Viruses mutate. This year’s flu virus will be something else next year, so I repeat: VIRUSES MUTATE!!!!!! They are going to spray this stuff onto our food supply so that we no longer need worry about food poisoning from these sources. Now if they had stringent cleaning and detection processes, we wouldn’t have to worry about food poisoning OR the effects of (mutating) viruses being introduced into our food supply. Do these scientists or the FDA know how the viruses will present themselves in 20 years, for example? Might these viruses develop more sophisticated culinary tastes? Might they even create diseases of their own?
Be afraid, people! Be very, very afraid! And insist that the foods so sprayed are marked accordingly if this madness does come to market, so that you may choose if you want to buy it. And don’t doubt that money will triumph over common sense – it usually does.
Scientists, in the employ of pharmaceuticals, are being paid to engineer organisms which Nature’s own defence mechanisms may have prevented from naturally occurring. Perhaps Nature, which naturally evolved Sickle Cell as a deterrent to Malaria, thus proving that her own cures may not always be benign, was right in not allowing deterrents to the common organisms which cause us food poisoning? Could it be, that in time, the cure will prove far worse than what is seeks to eradicate?
I feel it almost inevitable that these Scientists will not stop tampering with the natural order of things until they stumble across something that will ultimately prove far more devastating to Humanity than anything we have ever seen. Who is to say that this isn’t it?
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/07/eveningnews/main2072438.shtml
Should we rejoice at the new safety in our food? For me this is even worse than the McDonalds cooking directive to their staff – that burgers should be cooked at a certain temperature for a certain minimum time, in order to kill the bacteria from the faecal matter contained therein. My preference would be that they spend some time and money cleaning the shit out of their burger meat, rather than cooking it ‘safely’, killing the germs! (Ah! And you just thought their burgers just taste like crap! You didn’t realise that they actually contain it?!!!).
At least McDonalds are killing the bacteria in their meat with heat. To kill them with viruses is so incredibly risky!! Viruses mutate. This year’s flu virus will be something else next year, so I repeat: VIRUSES MUTATE!!!!!! They are going to spray this stuff onto our food supply so that we no longer need worry about food poisoning from these sources. Now if they had stringent cleaning and detection processes, we wouldn’t have to worry about food poisoning OR the effects of (mutating) viruses being introduced into our food supply. Do these scientists or the FDA know how the viruses will present themselves in 20 years, for example? Might these viruses develop more sophisticated culinary tastes? Might they even create diseases of their own?
Be afraid, people! Be very, very afraid! And insist that the foods so sprayed are marked accordingly if this madness does come to market, so that you may choose if you want to buy it. And don’t doubt that money will triumph over common sense – it usually does.
Scientists, in the employ of pharmaceuticals, are being paid to engineer organisms which Nature’s own defence mechanisms may have prevented from naturally occurring. Perhaps Nature, which naturally evolved Sickle Cell as a deterrent to Malaria, thus proving that her own cures may not always be benign, was right in not allowing deterrents to the common organisms which cause us food poisoning? Could it be, that in time, the cure will prove far worse than what is seeks to eradicate?
I feel it almost inevitable that these Scientists will not stop tampering with the natural order of things until they stumble across something that will ultimately prove far more devastating to Humanity than anything we have ever seen. Who is to say that this isn’t it?
