Genetically-modified Glow ChickenBy Catherine J. Frompovich According to scientists at Cambridge and the University of Edinburghs Roslin Institute, GMO-glow chickens are part of a scientific project to block bird flu in egg-laying hens, which has devastated flocks of chickens and turkeys in the USA to the tune of some 48 million chickens and turkeys that had to be destroyed since December of 2014. Reuters reported, To genetically engineer chickens, the UK researchers inject a decoy gene into a cluster of cells on the yolk of a newly laid egg. The egg will hatch into a chick containing the decoy gene, which it will be able to pass on to its offspring. The decoy gene is injected into the chicken chromosome alongside the fluorescent protein that makes the birds glow under ultraviolet light, similar to glow-in-the-dark posters in college dorm rooms. The birds would not be bred to glow if they are commercialized. When the modified birds come into contact with the flu, their genetic code is designed to trick the virus into copying the decoy and to inhibit the virus ability to reproduce itself. [2] Research to prevent bird flu also involves creating a vaccine to target the H5N2 virus. However, one would imagine that genetic modification probably is favored since the process enables the chick to pass on that trait to its offspring! But whats the transgenic decoy gene? Thats the proprietary secret that enables patenting of a life form, so we probably may never know. What we do know is that in transgenic GMs, Genes of one species can be modified, or genes can be transplanted from one species to another. Genetic engineering is made possible by recombinant DNA technology. Organisms that have altered genomes are known as transgenic. [5] That, I offer, is what makes GM/GE phood unlike and not comparable to natural food, as the U.S. FDA contends. I have yet to learn that Nature canor willinsert a fish gene into a tomato or a spider gene into a goat. Somehow that reminds me of science gone off the rails to think science will reclassify Natures gifts into science-manipulated propriety fiscal assets to proclaim substantially equivalent to non-GMO food, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration pontificates. Hogwash! Or, should I say a load of scientific BS, and not Bachelor of Science. Back in 2011, molecular virologist Laurence Tiley, the lead author of a paper identified a gene that could make birds produce a piece of RNA that acts as a decoy to polymerase, an enzyme that is vital for viral replication. Rather than binding with the virus genome, polymerase attaches itself to the decoy gene, preventing the virus from being able to replicate itself and spread. [4] Were told, however, that the decoy gene mimics an important control mechanism of the bird flu virus, i.e., to recognize the decoy gene instead of the bird flu genome. [3] Furthermore, Laurence Tiley, the senior lecturer at Cambridge Infectious Disease, says, The decoy mimics an essential part of the flu virus genome that is identical for all strains of influenza A. That sends up a red flag along with evoking numerous questions this writer has about chickens being genetically modified to fight or prevent bird flu. With all this GM messing around with Natures food to improve it, the only thing improved, as far as I can tell, is vested-interest corporate balance sheets. We know that children on the Autism Spectrum experience tremendous intestinal distress, which is relieved and even cured, when physicians prescribe non-GMO diets! [6] At the rate phood scientists are going, there will be nothing left to eat that is not genetically modified nor sprayed with tremendous amounts of glyphosate, which has been declared a probable human carcinogen (Group 2A) by the World Health Organizations International Agency on Cancer Research (IACR) [7]. Dont you think we need more common sense in food science and research, production, and at the U.S. FDA, along with GMO labeling in the USA? Top Image: A baby chick, genetically modified to block transmission of bird flu, glows under an ultraviolent light, next to a chick that has not been modified, in this undated handout photo provided by Norrie Russell of The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh. Graphic Source: Reuters/Norrie Russell of The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh/Handout References: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowworm Resources: Glow-in-the-dark chickens are genetically engineered to fight bird flu Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food Catherine J Frompovich (website) is a retired natural nutritionist who earned advanced degrees in Nutrition and Holistic Health Sciences, Certification in Orthomolecular Theory and Practice plus Paralegal Studies. Her work has been published in national and airline magazines since the early 1980s. Catherine authored numerous books on health issues along with co-authoring papers and monographs with physicians, nurses, and holistic healthcare professionals. She has been a consumer healthcare researcher 35 years and counting. Catherines latest book, published October 4, 2013, is Vaccination Voodoo, What YOU Dont Know About Vaccines, available on Amazon.com. Her 2012 book A Cancer Answer, Holistic BREAST Cancer Management, A Guide to Effective Non-Toxic Treatments, is available on Amazon.com and as a Kindle eBook. Two of Catherines more recent books on Amazon.com are Our Chemical Lives And The Hijacking Of Our DNA, A Probe Into Whats Probably Making Us Sick (2009) and Lord, How Can I Make It Through Grieving My Loss, An Inspirational Guide Through the Grieving Process (2008) Remember, its not nice to mess with mother nature. I dont think there is anything left that man hasnt messed with. Ill take a bucket of extra tasty crappy chicken! Heres my latest GMO discovery in dentistry: If you need a bone graft or a sinus lift the standard of care in USA is Bone Morphogenic Protein in a Bovine Collagen Sponge. There is a warning on the product package insert not to use if pregnant as the product has been found to travel and showed up in rat fetuses. It is also known to cause more swelling than other products. Further inquiry into the method of manufacture reveals that they use human bone protein grown in genetically modified HAMSTER cells. This will quickly stimulate bone growth because hamsters continually grow teeth at a rapid rate throughout their lives. When I asked how do I know if it will stop growing I was informed that it is sometimes found in the liver kidneys! As for the bovine collagen sponge which is the matrix that is the scaffold for the new bone growth; Mad cow/ CJD exist primarily in the brain collagen of cows prions can not be killed so no thanks. to PROUDLY mutate what cells would naturally select to pass on by disregarding violating Earths dialed-in biochem math (which ENSURES GROWTH of GROWTH SPURTS) then act as if autism and most nonfamilial diseases (aka 90% of cancers) are not because of miscoding enzyme and protein messages enough that Nature MUST ADJUST AND WEED US OUT, Even if we were right, Nature is subtle in how it reacts it grows savants out of autism but we are moving tooo fast. WE ARE NOT SUBTLE, cloud seeding really???? i do not digress, if we are turning healthy mammallian cell dna into cancer spreading codes Nature will refine our energy in death not waste anymore time growing us. Food allergies, palnt and animal species shifting growth cycles, location, breeding, etc, TOOK A LONG TIME FOR EARTH TO MAKE DIRT SO DIRT DONT HURT RESPECT DUE 