Worse Than GMO?

Worse Than GMO?: Urgent Action Needed!



5th June 2013

By Jack Adam Weber

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Dear Friends,

This is an urgent message with little
time left so please take action ASAP. If you do not have time to read
this, and you are against bioengineering and GMO, please scroll down to
the bottom to take action here and here.

I just received word through the ETC
Group, who helped us with the Stop GMO in Mexico petition, that some
biohackers in the bay area of California are planning to send out
hundreds of thousands genetically engineered weed seeds to people all
over the United States. But these are not regular GMO seeds; they are
produced through “synthetic biology” technology, which has been called “GMO on steroids.” It is more dangerous than GMO and is so new it is not even regulated.

These seeds, however, are not even
bioengineered in the way you might think. The sequence is laid out on a
computer and then printed on a DNA synthesizer, and this sequence is
then spliced into a seed. The DNA sequences are even more novel and
artificial than that found in GMO products to date.










This would be the first-ever release of
an organism produced through synthetic biology anywhere in the world,
and it won’t be just one organism but hundreds of thousands—sent through
the mail and dispersed across the USA. There is a strong international
consensus that synthetic organisms are too poorly understood and their
environmental impacts are too uncertain to be released into the
environment, deliberately or otherwise. Incredibly, the biohackers are
funding this maniacal venture through Kickstarter.com

For the last month, the crowdfunding
website Kickstarter has hosted a project by these 3 biohackers from
California’s Bay Area who are associated with the private synthetic
biology company, Genome Compiler Corporation. They asked the public for money to carry out a project to bioengineer a common weed to glow in the dark.
What is most alarming is that they also promised to send 100 seeds of
their bioengineered weed to anyone who backed the project with $40. To
date, they have more than 6,000 backers who have given more than $40 –
that’s 600,000 synthetically engineered seeds! – and have raised more
than $400,000.

One-hundred and sixteen Civil society organizations have called for a moratorium on
any release of synthetic organisms. The UN Convention on Biological
Diversity has urged countries to exercise precaution. Even the US
President’s advisors have cautioned against environmental release. Yet,
incredibly, the Kickstarter biohackers have said they will design their
synthetic organism in a way that evades existing regulations – meaning,
they will intentionally evade oversight, assessment and monitoring.
Releasing these seeds into the environment is akin to a high school
prank gone stupid.

Specifically, we are asking you to help in these ways, and PLEASE SHARE THE LINKS WIDELY AND RIGHT QUICK!


source:-
http://wakeup-world.com/2013/06/05/worse-than-gmo-urgent-action-needed/