President
Obama's F.D.A. approved the sales of genetically fast-growth
engineered salmon in the United States over the disapproval of
Alaska's Senator Lisa Murkowski who would like to boycott the
'Frankenfish'. The Alaska Bio-Luddite movement has been shocked into
a tizzy. Plainly the sale of fast growing King Salmon from a pool in
Panama wouldn't help natural grown Alaska salmon that are in
declining numbers do to capture on the high seas by foreign fleets.
The
approval of genetically engineered fish in the U.S.A. along with the
profusion of free trade agreements opens a Pandora's box of nations
able to grow and export high-grade genetically engineered fish to the
U.S.A. I can hardly wait for catfish the size of whales to grow in
Thailand and be trained and directed to swim to American ports for
harvest under the guidance of navigation and control brain implants.
In
the good old days Senator Stevens of Alaska as a business
progressive would have just said go ahead and approve the things
universally and Wrangell Alaska would have been the location for the
first genetic engineered major fish producer of King salmon to
Seattle; location and market position being first being everything,
Americans will probably wait until they can buy salmon made ion
Shanghai before a super-salmon facility is built at Institute Creek.
Hundreds of high-paying jobs will be lost to foreign rivals so
Alaskans can listen to the radio and be depressed about job
prospects.
I
have opposed genetic engineering of bio-forms in the past on
principle because it allows random human genomic modifications that
cannot be reversed. In the short term though the desirability for
women that want their kids to have larger, trophy boobs or short
parents that want their kids to be 8 footers able to get that N.B.A.
contract may be hard to suppress from becoming political reality.
It
is hard to imagine viable prospects for containment of human genomic
modification. The first time a researcher produces a gene splicing
tweak to eliminate inheritable breast cancer opposition will swoon.
If a illegal offshore bio-tank produces a genetic skin color upgrade
wealthy Afro-Americans will be returning with Chinese looking
progeny.
Genetic
engineering is a kind of magic that can let fresh water vegetables
grow in saltwater to enhance food supply, or increase brain size,
change the structure of neurons in whales to better accomplish
mathematical calculations and sundry other presently unimaginable
'weird miracles' of science.
Dr.
Frankenstein wanted to create life from dead body parts. Genetic
engineering entrepreneurs want to create new forms of existing life
by super-sizing good things generally. There are of course some very
dark side of the force possibilities in morphing life willy nilly
however. So instead of calling growth challenged fish that hate
speech term 'Frankenfish' they night better be called 'affirmative
growth' fish with the potential to pioneer brave new habitat
settlements where no habitats have existed before. Probably an
umbrella corporation will own all of the patents on Frankenfish
within the concentration of wealth principle. Maybe it should be made
illegal to own patents on genetically engieered life-that might be
the best discourager of corruption in the concentration of power
area.
There
are stories of the brave affirmative growth salmon of Panama able to
leap tall buildings in a single bound and return hope to the
starving, tired and poor immigrating fish yearning to swim free that
have yet to be told, and chapters that have yet to be written of the
poor little salmon that saw the great waterfall ahead and thought to
him or herself, 'I will overcome'.
I
wonder how the genie of genetic engineering will be kept in the
bottle with so many tech tools available and proliferating as a
fairly simply tech. Computers will probably be able to design their
own life forms one day so people can grow-their-own new species at
home. In a way, space colonization looks better and better as a way
to put a firewall between normal human life and the evolution by
design Frankocrats.
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