Dr. Moreau's Island--update

France 4.9% increase/day new cases/active cases https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/ brazil 46/642= 7.2% increse/day https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil India 90.6/765= 11.8% increase/day https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india …………………………………………………………….......................................................................
4-3-18 US Ag Dept. Sec.

Sonny Perdue had already taken sides during meetings with companies that had been complaining for a long time about regulatory obstacles for genetically modified organisms.  The report is in fact unequivocal: “Through innovative methods plant scientists can now create new plant varieties that are indistinguishable from those developed through traditional breeding methods.  These new approaches to plant breeding include methods like genome editing and present tremendous opportunities for farmers and consumers alike by making available plants with traits that may protect crops against threats like droughts and diseases.”  Sonny Perdue has in fact just affirmed that it is urgent to do nothing, leaving the door wide open to a rapid development of different crops already tested in the field for two or three years, such as the Calyxt CRISPR soybean crop, the JR Simplot Co. and Monsanto potatoes containing a gene resistant to late blight for McDonald’s, or the Okanagan Specialty Fruits apples that do not turn brown. It should be noted that, the day before the approval of its merger with Bayer, Monsanto invested 25 million dollars (20.4 million euros) in Pairwise, a start-up working on the creation of “diversity” in agricultural seeds thanks to CRISPR, a technique Monsanto adopted in 2016 via a non-exclusive agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EnaNDDfzbRMJ:https://www.makery.info/en/2018/04/03/lagriculture-crispr-ne-sera-pas-regulee-aux-etats-unis/+&cd=23&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari ………………………………………………................................ 
6-4-20 A U.S. appeals court has blocked Bayer AG (which lost recently a US $11 billion suit over Roundup) from selling an agricultural weed killer. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency substantially understated the risks related to the use of dicamba, a chemical found in herbicides sold by Bayer and rivals that are sprayed on genetically engineered soybeans and cotton. The herbicides are known to drift away and damage other crops that are not resistant.
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2020/06/04/571058.htm
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Aug 14, 2019     In some ways synthetic biology is similar to another approach called "genome editing" because both involve changing an organism's genetic code; however some people draw a distinction between these two approaches based on how that change is made.   In synthetic biology, scientists typically stitch together long stretches of DNA and insert them into an organism's genome. https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/policy-issues/Synthetic-Biology