It takes a bit of reading and studying of the various usage rules and definitions of words and phrases to understand the way the FDA and USDA Frankenbureaucrats twist common sense to make it possible for the corporate megafarming industry to adulterate, toxify, and poison our food supply, but so what . . .

So what! You have a brain, and you can read, so use your brain and start reading!

One of the strategies the FDA and USDA use is based on the self-created principle of "Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS)", where the people doing the "general recognizing" are the corporate megafarming companies and their assorted Frankenscientists . . .

What you find are statements by megacorporate industry spokespersons and Frankenscientists proudly proclaiming, "I ate it, and it is just like the real thing"; "It looks just like the real thing, so it must be real"; and "After watching a 30-minute training cartoon, get your Crayola crayons and color me 'convinced', because I'm going to eat a bunch of it" . . .

Another highly deceptive strategy is to dismiss quite arbitrarily all the stuff that I call "genetic noise", which to be specific is the "non-coding DNA", "junk DNA", and so forth and so on that results from all the genetic engineering processes being extraordinarily imprecise, which is the deep and dark secret that the Frankenscientists do not want the public to know . . .

Frankenscientists promote their technologies as being remarkably precise, but the reality is that tiny snippets of "extra" DNA, prions, proteins, and other bits and pieces always tag along, and the problem is that nobody on this planet actually knows what all these "extra" bits and pieces of genetic algorithms do . . .

At first, the Frankenscientists proclaimed that the "extra" bits did nothing and were just "residual noise", but a few real scientists had problems with the general concepts (a) that there would be so much "residual noise" in genetic algorithms and (b) that this "residual noise" would do nothing . . .

If it does not do anything, then why is it there?

If it serves no purpose whatsoever, then why is is passed from generation to generation via natural reproduction?

And so forth and so on . . .

Consequently, these real scientists started devising experiments to determine whether any bits and pieces of this so-called "residual noise" actually did something rather than nothing, and what they soon discovered is that instead of doing nothing, it does something but in often subtle ways that only occur in circumstances and scenarios that are not so commonly recognized as being significant . . .

One way to understand this is to view DNA, RNA, and so forth as if it were a computer program (hence a "genetic algorithm") . . .

Instead of being symbolic code that tells an Intel microprocessor what to do, it is an electrochemical code that causes various things to happen throughout the body of an organism . . .

We know with absolute certainty that the entire genetic algorithm for an organism is contained in a single fertilized egg or whatever, and we know that in suitable growing conditions this single fertilized egg will develop into an highly complex organism, based entirely on the various instructions contained in its original single copy of its genetic algorithm or "genetic blueprint" . . .

[NOTE: As with everything, there are variations in the way the progression from little to big works for animals, plants, and all the other types of biological entities that are somewhere in the blurred regions where things are somewhat like animals but also have plant characteristics, and so forth and so on, but so what . . . ]

After pondering this for quite a number of years, it occurred to me that some of the parts or segments of DNA do nothing unless they happen to be near one another, which is a "proximity" type of thing . . .

Or, it could be a matter of one snippet doing nothing but several proximal snippets doing something . . .

There are a lot of variations, combinations, and permutations, but when one begins with one complete cell, which divides to create two cells, which divide to create four cells, and so forth and so on, then what once was one thing now becomes a curious type of group, and I think it is quite logical that when a bunch of otherwise apparently identical cells become a group, perhaps they naturally form committees, political affiliations, tiny governments, and whatever . . .

Whatever!

One group decides to become a thinking machine (or a "brain"), while another group has no interest in thinking but is fascinated with the idea of being able to remove fatty toxins, so it becomes a "liver", but another group has no interest in fat-soluble toxins and wastes but is completely excited with the idea of filtering and removing water-soluble toxins and wastes, so it decides to become a pair of kidneys, and so forth and so on . . .

Whether it actually happens this way is another matter, but this is a useful way to understand what I call the "proximity effect", and this is where all the "extra" bits and pieces of so-called "genetic noise", "non-coding DNA", "junk DNA", and so forth and so on become mind-bogglingly important in the grand scheme of everything, because all it takes is toggling just one tiny bit of a genetic algorithm to produce catastrophically devastating consequences for an organism . . .

Why do some people have virtual festivals of bad habits but never have a sick day in their over one-century long lives, while other people go into anaphylactic shock if they touch the top of a lunchroom table where someone set a peanut butter and jelly sandwich two days earlier and the cleaning people missed a few molecules of peanut butter when they scrubbed the table top?

Why did public school cafeterias routinely serve stellar peanut butter cookies at least once a week over a half century ago but today cannot have any peanut butter or other types of nut products at all?

Why did public school cafeterias routinely use pure cane sugar half a century ago at a time when there might have been one student in a school who had diabetes and one obese student but today there are festivals of students who are diabetic and obese?

Might it have something to do with high-fructose corn syrup, which did not exist on this planet or anywhere else in the known universe until it was concocted in a research laboratory in the US in the late-1950s and then nearly two decades later was made commercially viable by a high-temperature catalytic Frankenprocess devised by demented Japanese chemists, where just a few years later it replaced pure cane sugar in nearly everything in our great nation?

Might it have something to do with Frankenscientists badly "splicing" a lot of "extra" bits and pieces of strange stuff from animals into plants or vice-versa?

Might it have something to do with most of the vegetables and legumes in grocery stores being "Roundup Ready", which for all practical purposes makes the humans who consume such Frankenfood "Roundup Ready Too™"?

"Hey! It looks like a fish to me, so let's eat it!" . . .

Fifty years ago, other than medical doctors, who knew what asthma was?

Who knew someone who had asthma?

I have no idea, but today nearly everybody knows someone who has asthma . . .

The FDA, USDA, megacorporate agribusiness, and their sneaky weasel Frankenbureaucrats, Frankenscientists, and cohorts are conducting strange and bizarre genetic experiments on every lifeform on this planet--including humans--and their goal is transform every living thing into a Frankenmutant . . .

For these psychopaths, nothing is more important than money, power, and the ability to inflict pain and suffering, and the fact of the matter is that for them the possibility of being able to extract a penny from a public urinal using their teeth is both (a) the epitome of Benjamin Franklin's advice given under the nome de plume "Poor Richard" where "a penny saved is a penny earned" and (b) an exciting opportunity . . .

If you want to understand the FDA, USDA, megacorporate agribusiness, and their sneaky weasel Frankenbureaucrats, Frankenscientists, and cohorts, then I encourage you to read the information on psychopaths that the Cassiopaeans so thoughtfully provide, which includes a link to the classic book by Hervey Cleckley, "The Mask of Sanity", which is made available by Hervey Cleckley's heirs in PDF format at no charge for educational purposes, which is fabulous . . .

[NOTE: The Cassiopaeans have some pretty wacky ideas on other topics, but their information on psychopaths is accurate and stellar, and from a different perspective how can you dislike any group of people who are convinced that the Reptillians are behind a lot of the more strange and bizarre things that are happening at the dawn of the early-21st century, really . . . ]

http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath.htm

Fabulous!

I'll eat it. All that is happening is they are taking one gene from one animal and putting it in another and seeing the growth rate pick up. I'm sure you could eat the animal they get the gene from. Hell it didn't say in the article where the gene comes from, but it could very well be an Atlantic Salmon they get it from. They could have found a mutant strain of the salmon and isolated the gene causing it to grow super fast, then introduced that gene into a line of fish they want to use for food.

People have such a backlash against this, but I am sure the vast majority of people who have that reaction have absolutely no clue what they are talking about. Wen it comes down to it, everything we eat is genetically altered from what it was originally. Our corn isn't like it was from the wild. It has been genetically altered by humans for thousands of years by selective breeding. The same goes for all our other plants. Ever wonder where the cow you eat lives in the wild? It doesn't. Humans took a wild animal and did the crudest of genetic manipulation on it to create the cows we see today. Even your pet dog and cat are not how they would be found in the wild. They have been altered by selective breeding by people. Humans have been altering genes of everything they see around them for thousands of years. This is just another case of it. If you don't want to eat anything that was altered genetically, then go out to the woods and start harvesting your food there. Otherwise you are stuck eating something that has been genetically altered.

Oooo, food from China. The same food that made many of their babies sick and the melamine-laced ingredients that killed American cats and dogs? Yummy, yummy.

No thanks, I'll stick with the home-grown veggies and meats from small local farmers on which I grew up, thank you very much.

My family has been growing organic veggies, beef, chicken, etc. for generations. The factory-farm produced food in the supermarket is flavorless, fatty, dirty & laced with who knows what kind of chemicals. Saying that big "tightly controlled & manged" farms are more safe makes me laugh, No Lemming(what an ironic name). Get a clue. What happens when fishermen catch some of these GM fish when(not if) they escape into the wild? Will they be sued for copyright infringement? Will the production of Salmon be cornered by this industry? It is happening with corn & soy all over North America. Small farmers are being driven out of business by large corporations(Monsanto). This is the reason for GM food: money/power.