Man's Genetically Modified Food Supply… and Lo, a Black Horse…
Pastor Dale Morgan
Man's Genetically Modified Food Supply… and Lo, a Black Horse…*
Apr 29th, 2007 6:22 AM
Sue Bradley,
April 29, 2007
In 1798 Thomas Malthus predicted that population would increase by
exponential progression while agrarian growth would progress at an
arithmetic or lineal rate thus causing catastrophic degeneration and
inevitable famine and plague. Though Malthus’ solutions were reflective
of societal morality, his conclusions were based on economic ratios
where geometric progression always exceeds linear expansion.
While Thomas Maltus errantly applied his Essay on the Principle of
Population to nineteenth century Europe, his predictions seem eerily
prescient and applicable to recent global agricultural, environmental,
political and scientific events.
As recently as twenty years ago, with dramatic advances in food
enhancements, growth acceleration, preservation and delivery, the
ability to produce and provide better than subsistence level nutrition
was becoming feasible. The spectre of third world families on drought
stricken expanses might finally have been poised for extinction and
purged from modern memory and history.
And while the eyes of proud western civilizations watched political
walls collapse and treaties signed, then turned to focus on
‘humanitarian’ welfare and unprecedented technological and scientific
maturation, it seemed as though a seal was loosed just a bit somewhere.
Slowly a backwash began to seep in.
"Unusually active" hurricane seasons began to recur and became the norm.
Several "unseasonably warm" winters were followed by even more
"unusually cold" springs. An unprecedented planetary weather phenomenon
was shifting into what once "radical" environmentalists were touting as
"global warming." In April of 2007, The United Nations’
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released shocking details in a
written summary: rising temperatures could melt the planet’s glaciers in
15 years; Africa’s wheat crop could be wiped out by 2050, eco-systems
will heat waves, storm surges and water shortages.
In December 2004, an event of Biblical proportions occurred in the
region of Indonesia. Geophysicists, using data from the Richter 9.3
earthquake calculated that the event affected the shape and rotation of
the planet. The tsunami which followed listed the human casualty figure
at over 300,000.
The recent ecologic, geophysical at atmospheric changes have hardly been
lost on Hollywood. Apocalyptic genre thriller movies have become more
realistic versions of horror movies which enthusiasts can ‘enjoy’ from
the comfort of homes and theaters. Perhaps what they are missing is the
realism these films are curiously telegraphing.
Still relegated to the domain of cartoon and comic book features,
characters like Spiderman, Little Mermaid and Batman give way to
Superman, Wonder Woman, and then darker Manchurian and cyborg creatures.
Are these characters truly the "creations" of fanciful screenwriters
using science ‘fiction’ novels for ‘inspiration?’ Or is there a more
sinister operative learning and conditional probability or joint
probability underway?
Deterministic models of probability variables are yielding bizarre
results within formerly simple mathematical systems. The introduction of
previously unknown variables has created a conundrum in formerly
predictable linear processes.
As far back as 1999, an article featured in the Institute of Science in
Society (ISIS), publication, Dr. Mae-Wan Ho wrote that she joined the
biotechnology debate, "partly because my friends from the Third World
Network inspired me with their ideals of restoring to the world equity,
justice, and all other qualities that make us human, and partly because
I felt something had to be done to overcome the misinformation and
disinformation put out by the biotech industry and their supporters.
"The situation is this: the existing technologies for genetic
engineering organisms are crude, unreliable, uncontrollable and
unpredictable, and they are inherently hazardous. Furthermore, these
technologies are misguided by a science which is fundamentally flawed,
out of date and in conflict with scientific findings. …
"The public are told that genetic engineering organisms are no different
from conventional breeding, only more precise, faster and safer. All of
which is untrue.
"You know the children's joke of what do you get when you cross
impossible things like a spider with a goat? Part of the joke is knowing
you can't because there are biological barriers between species which
only allow one to cross closely related species such as horse and
donkey, for example. Genetic engineering bypasses all these barriers, so
that joke is obsolete. Genetic engineering is a set of techniques which
enables genes to be transferred in the laboratory between any and every
species. Indeed, spider genes have been transferred into goats to make
the poor female goats produce silk in their milk, and human genes have
been transferred into cows, sheep, mice, fish and bacteria." 1
We have reengineered our food supply for increased efficiency with
arrogant disregard for Biblical restraint directives and prohibitions.
In a scenario reminiscent of the mythical Pandora, ancient ills have
been released by an irresponsible society which has recklessly begun to
cross forbidden boundaries imposed by an ‘outdated’ Sovereign. In the
past when these limits were approached a Sovereign God has intervened on
behalf of mankind.
Has there before, in modern recorded history, ever been the diverse
array of potential catalysts, the convergence of even two of which would
generate unimaginable scenarios?
There are wars, insurgencies, political gambits and alliances.
Conventional and 20th century nuclear warfare has entered the realm of
science fiction with electromagnetic directed energy particle beam
weaponry, scalar Tesla technology and nanotechnology.
We have solar flares, rogue waves, underwater volcanism, underwater
oceans, undersea sand deposits and massive algae blooms.
We have mutant disease strains, new disease strains, resistant disease
strains, and ancient disease strains.
We have dead butterflies, dead bees, dead fish, dead foul, dead
wildlife, dead livestock, dead pets, dead people. What is going on?
Consumption of genetically modified plants engineered with herbicides
and pesticides have resulted in serious and often fatal animal and human
consequence. Seafood, meat and dairy products are similarly affected.
Bovine spongiform encephalophy (BSE), transmissible spongiform
encephalopathy (TSE) occur when recycled animal remains are converted
into animal feed. The world’s deer, elk and wildlife populations are
being affected by their own variants. The human parallel, Creutzfeldt -
Jakob Disease is emerging.
Our obsession with our pets’ food has finally been transferred to
concern the human food supply. Daily, and now hourly, the instability
and precarious complexity of our food sources and inventories becomes
suspect: tracking has become cumbersome, accurate tracing is no longer
possible. Have we passed a threshold?
In 1973, a class B sci-fi film, Soylent Green brought to life a society
plagued by all of the characteristics of the Malthusian Limit: a return
to subsistence level agricultural conditions overwhelmed by population,
recovering from concurrent crises: war, economic failure: a dystopian
portrayal of societal, ecologic and spiritual failure. The picture is
strangely Delphian for some, mystically prophetic for others, but
portentous and foreboding for all:
The year is 2022. New York City is populated with 40 million people,
half of whom are unemployed. A society which has failed to nurture the
planet is now at her mercy. An unending heat wave has enveloped the
city. Overpopulation and the destruction of the environment have
rendered humans to a sheep mentality where life is cheap, but food, real
food, is prohibitively expensive: a jar of real jam costs $150, if it is
even available since supermarkets no longer exist. Government euthanasia
centers supply comfortable alternatives for the weary.
A faceless government now dispenses rations of food substances made by
the Soylent Corporation: a panoply of epicurean compositions ostensibly
the product of abundant soy and cheap lentil: Soylent Yellow, Soylent
Red, and the newest product, Soylent Green which includes plankton. Even
the Soylent products are in short supply requiring riot police presence
for distribution.
But it is at the film’s magnum, in actuality the nadir, when the
fullness of all human and hellish malignance is revealed when ‘hero,’ a
cop named Robert Thorn, played by Charlton Heston in an intriguing
casting extension, comes upon the film’s powerful, haunting and shocking
reality: The government euthanasia centers are the supply source for the
Soylent Corporation: "Soylent Green is people."
While some of the best and the brightest of the exploding scientific
discipline are honorably dedicated to finding relief for a panacea of
human and ecologic afflictions, equally brilliant but often headstrong
and self-seeking scientists are plunging headfirst into an unexplored
and largely unregulated futuristic science with little regard for
long-term generational effect and the possible eventuality of multiple
interconnected cataclysms, unparalleled and unimaginable in precedence.
And the possibility of purposeful malicious intent cannot be dismissed.
Cutting edge watchdogs and forward thinking analysts like Thomas Horn,
Dr. Stan Monteith, Dr. Len Horowitz, Dr. Chuck Missler and Wesley Smith
have long been taking the pulse of obscurely reported and often buried
results of some of the horrific implications of intrusion into and
manipulation of the sacrosanct code of life, the integrity of structure
of the DNA molecule itself.
The Age of Reason in which Newtonian causatum results in precise and
predictable effect could scarcely have begun to grasp the plethora
effect of twenty-first century scientific possibility.
Voltaire observed in his "The Philosophic Dictionary," that, "The
present is delivered, it is said, of the future . . . events are linked
to each other by an invincible fatality. This system of necessity and
fatality has been invented in our time . . . under the name of
self-sufficient reason; it is, however, very ancient: that there is no
effect without a cause, and that often the smallest cause produces the
greatest effects, does not date from to-day." 2
And the black horse is the precursor to the pale horse.
1 http://www.i-sis.org.uk/spidergoat.php
2 From: Concatenation of Events
Selected and Translated by H.I. Woolf
New York: Knopf, 1924
Scanned by the Hanover College Department of History, 1995
Proofread and pages added by Jonathan Perry, March 2001
(all bold emphasis, smb)