<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body>With all due respect, while I certainly agree that not all genetic manipulation has turned out badly, my concern is when a "new" organism is unleashed into the natural world. If so called "terminator" genes were somehow transferred to native populations of legumes than we could see entire species wiped out by someone's little mistake. We are already seeing BT resistance in insects from this type of technology in the ecosystem, thus taking away a valuable tool in organic production and poisioning non-target insects.<br><br>Do you really think Monsanto (or other proprietary interest) foresaw these unintended consequences? If they did, that would show blatant disregard for non-human life and if they did not... well I'm sure you see my point. The stakes are simply too high to trust to some post-doc in some genetics lab under tremendous pressure to perform. All it will take is one organism, the wrong organism in the wrong place at the wrong time and something very terrible will happen. Suddenly efficient production of insulin in health care seems like an insignificant detail when entire ecosystems are collapsing.<br><br>Really, in my mind this type of transgenic work is more akin to weapons development and as such we must remember that even our greatest minds can live to regret their research.<br><br>I lost my father and an aunt who helped raise me years ago to cancer. Both went through radiation treatment giving them both at least some additional time here among us. Nuclear fission has helped advance medicine, driven turbines, and powered ships. During wartime, many usually important issues can take a back seat to survival as my father witnessed while serving in the Pacific during WWII. He and others I'm sure felt the heavy burden of duty when those atomic weapons were used on the Japanese people.<br><br>So great was the burden that when asked, Einstein who of course assisted with the Manhattan Project stated:<br><b>"had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing."<br><br></b>Yes, I know this is quite the response, it's late and it's been a long day. All I'm saying is that we need to be very careful with this planet and the life on it. It's the only one we have and frankly, when I look around and watch the goings on in the world, I know that we humans are just not that smart and mistakes happen everyday.....<br><br>Signing off,<br>Robin<br><br><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255);">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: RobertKrueger@ferris.edu
<br>Sent: Nov 12, 2010 3:13 PM
<br>To: MoonBranch Botanicals <moonbranch@earthlink.net>
<br>Cc: mpwg@lists.plantconservation.org
<br>Subject: Re: [MPWG] In Twenty Years Chocolate Will Be A Rare Delicacy-breeding
<br><br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">I respectfully disagree with your last
paragraph and man's ability via transgenic manipulation to 'build a better
anything'. <i>E. coli</i> does not normally produce human insulin
yet without its capacity to produce it as created via genetic transformation,
millions of the world's diabetics would be without the crucial human insulin
necessary to keep them alive. Let's not place all transformation into a
'bad' category. Transformative manipulation of certain marine organisms
may be necessary to produce enough of their cancer combating compounds
to save lives. Taxol was generally thought to be a natural product produced
by <i>Taxus</i> spp until researchers found a fungus with the capacity
to produce it and that fungus was associated with the tree. So who's original
gene was it? If we subscribe to the theory of evolution, then today's gene
products all came from a common ancestral life form. All manipulation is
not to be condoned nor expected to be beneficial. Likewise, all is not
to be forbidden and depicted as bad. Would a plant based system of producing
insulin be good or bad? Good comes to mind since one must inject insulin
in order to derive its benefits. And what about selection of specific clones
of <i>Cacao</i> from cell cultures of the tree? Is this manipulative? Yes.
Wrong? In my opinion, no.</font>
<br>
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</font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">Re: [MPWG] In
Twenty Years Chocolate Will Be A Rare Delicacy-breeding</font>
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<br><tt><font size="2">This needn't be so complex, but obviously my point
is not getting through here. I could expand endlessly or choose to oversimplify
here. Due to time restraints, I will choose the latter.<br>
<br>
I never intended to direct this toward plant (or animal) "breeders".
The operative here of course being the word "breeder". <br>
<br>
According to Wiktionary:<br>
<br>
Noun<br>
<br>
breeder (plural breeders)<br>
<br>
1. A person who breeds plants or animals professionally.<br>
<br>
and<br>
<br>
Verb<br>
<br>
to breed (third-person singular simple present breeds, present participle
breeding, simple past and past participle bred)<br>
<br>
1. To sexually produce offspring.<br>
<br>
So, if the technique involved, either traditional or enhanced involves
"sexual" reproduction (as is infinitely possible in the natural
world, albeit generally within genera) and a transfer of genetic information
in the case of plants via pollen, that is one thing.<br>
<br>
But the creation of new "transgenic" organisms by the transfer
of genetic material across naturally occurring boundaries of genera and
even kingdoms is quite another.<br>
<br>
I'm not sure why this is so hard for people to get. Simply put and according
to me (and maybe only me) humans are part of a greater "whole"
and as part of the "whole" it is impossible to comprehend that
"whole" in its entirety. Again simply put, it is hard for me
to believe that we have the capabilities either physically or cognitively
to "out-do" hundreds of thousands of years of trial and error
and the resulting evolution of creation.<br>
<br>
Make sense?<br>
<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
>From: "Jeanine M. Davis" <Jeanine_Davis@ncsu.edu><br>
>Sent: Nov 12, 2010 1:02 PM<br>
>To: MoonBranch Botanicals <moonbranch@earthlink.net><br>
>Cc: mpwg@lists.plantconservation.org<br>
>Subject: Re: [MPWG] In Twenty Years Chocolate Will Be A Rare
Delicacy-breeding<br>
><br>
>In defense of many plant breeders, Robin, I must interject that there
are<br>
>ways to breed new plants that are much faster than classical breeding
but<br>
>are not transgenic. Anther culture and the use of marker assisted<br>
>breeding are just two examples. The tomato breeder I'm working
with uses<br>
>these techniques NOT to make money for himself or the university. He
does<br>
>so to create tomato varieties with disease resistance so farmers can
grow<br>
>tomatoes with fewer pesticides and especially so organic farmers can
grow<br>
>tomatoes here in WNC. Where it might take 12 seasons to develop a new<br>
>disease resistant tomato variety using classical breeding techniques,
it<br>
>may be done in 2-4 seasons with these other methods.<br>
><br>
>Jeanine<br>
><br>
>> I<br>
>> think one needs to look no further than what has happened with
maize/corn<br>
>> to determine the future path of where most plant genomic research
leads.<br>
>> The following excerpt from:<br>
>> </font></tt><a target="_blank" href="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-11/decoded-corn-genome-promises-higher-yields-better-bio-fuels-new-plastics"><tt><font size="2">http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-11/decoded-corn-genome-promises-higher-yields-better-bio-fuels-new-plastics</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2">;<br>
>> is most illustrative.<br><br><span style="color:
rgb(204, 0, 0);">"Maize<br>
>> actually underwent significant genetic alteration during the<br>
>> domestication process thousands of years ago, with the early settlers
of<br>
>> the Americas increasing the yield, altering ear geometry,
and<br>
>> augmenting the stalk strength through years of selective breeding.
Now,<br>
>> with the genome laid bare, scientists can accomplish the same
level of<br>
>> engineering in fractions of the time."</span><br><br>If
the lack of<br>
>> genetic diversity is handicapping small farmer production, then
yes, by<br>
>> all means, introduce diversity into that production. This of course
can<br>
>> easily be accomplished by the time honored horticultural practices
of<br>
>> selection and hybridization introducing germplasm sourced from
"wild"<br>
>> populations (apparently occurring in the Amazon Basin) into that<br>
>> production.<br><br>In this day and age however, I'm
afraid that the<br>
>> inclination of most researchers is to follow the quicker, more
profitable<br>
>> (for the researcher) and "patentable" path of transgenic
manipulation.<br>
>> Despite the claims of Mars, Inc. that the resulting findings will
be<br>
>> "public domain" history and the long trail of research
dollars generally<br>
>> have led to the opposite, eventually. Of course, only time will<br>
>> tell.....<br><br><br><blockquote style="padding-left:
5px; margin-left:<br>
>> 0px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255);">-----Original
Message-----<br>
>> <br>From: Jennifer Chesworth <cafesombra@gmail.com><br>
>> <br>Sent: Nov 12, 2010 11:51 AM<br>
>> <br>To: mpwg@lists.plantconservation.org<br>
>> <br>Subject: Re: [MPWG] In Twenty Years Chocolate Will Be
A Rare Delicacy<br>
>><br>
>> <br><br>Jean, in the case of cacao you are mistaken.
Several years<br>
>> ago,<br>
>> chocolate manufacturers experienced a crisis when they discovered
the<br>
>> stock of almost ALL global plantations (and small holdings) of
cacao<br>
>> were descended from the seed of a single cacao plant brought to<br>
>> Martinique by the French in 1660. All plantations were similarly<br>
>> resilient or not to any number of diseases, and a single plague
could<br>
>> devastate the entire industry. "Maintaining resilience"
of cacao<br>
>> requires tissue culture, something most small holders cannot achieve
on<br>
>> their own.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On
Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at<br>
>> 11:47 AM, Jennifer Chesworth <span dir="ltr"><<a
target="_blank"<br>
>> href="</font></tt><a target="_blank" href="mailto:cafesombra@gmail.com"><tt><font size="2">mailto:cafesombra@gmail.com</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2">">cafesombra@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:
0pt 0pt 0pt<br>
>> 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left:
1ex;"><br>
>> <br><div><div class="h5"><br>
>> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov
12, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Jean<br>
>> Giblette <span dir="ltr"><<a href="</font></tt><a target="_blank" href="mailto:hfg@capital.net"><tt><font size="2">mailto:hfg@capital.net</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2">"<br>
>> target="_blank">hfg@capital.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br><blockquote<br>
>> class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt
0.8ex; border-left: 1px<br>
>> solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
>><br>
>> <div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><br>
>> <div>Thanks, Robin.</div><div><br></div>Quoted
from the Independent<br>
>> article:<div><br></div><div>"<span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);<br>
>> font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Despite price
rises on the trading<br>
>> floor, precious little reaches the smallholders who make up 95
per cent of<br>
>> growers, according to Mr. Lass, a former Cadburys trader and ethical<br>
>> sourcing advisor who has co-authored a book on the cocoa<br>
>> industry.</span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;
line-height: 11px;"><br>
>><br>
>> <font style="font: 12px Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"
color="#333333"<br>
>> face="Verdana" size="3">"These smallholders
earn just 80 cents a day," he<br>
>> says. "So there is no incentive to replant trees when they
die off, and to<br>
>> wait up to five years for a new crop, and no younger generation
around to<br>
>> do the replanting."</font></p><br>
>><br>
>> <div><div>Note the main thrust of these articles,
which is to celebrate<br>
>> the genome sequencing in hopes that a genetic engineering "solution"
will<br>
>> be found, when all we have to do is incentivize the farmers to
replant on<br>
>> a regular basis and to maintain/enhance the resilience of the
small<br>
>> holdings.</div><br>
>><br>
>> <div><br></div><div>These articles portray
the microcosm of what's wrong<br>
>> with medicinal plant production worldwide: the growers
are neither<br>
>> adequately compensated nor rewarded for good stewardship. At
the<br>
>> same time, industrial ag (including its ultimate manifestation,
genetic<br>
>> engineering) displaces the growers. These dynamics are
based on<br>
>> social constructs, and social constructs can be revised.</div><br>
>><br>
>> <div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, Mother
Nature is waiting to reward us with<br>
>> chocolate and all the abundance of the fertile earth. All
we have to<br>
>> do is follow her lead and cooperate with her. Why is
this so hard<br>
>> for us to understand?</div><br>
>><br>
>> <div><br></div><div>Jean</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On
Nov<br>
>> 12, 2010, at 10:50 AM, MoonBranch Botanicals wrote:</div><br><blockquote<br>
>> type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;">Chocolate
Black Hole; Chocolate<br>
>> consumption is increasing faster than production, meaning the
future will<br>
>> probably be less chocolaty....</div><br>
>><br>
>> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div
style="margin:<br>
>> 0px;"><a<br>
>> href="</font></tt><a target="_blank" href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-11/future-chocolate-will-be-rare-delicacy-analysts-say"><tt><font size="2">http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-11/future-chocolate-will-be-rare-delicacy-analysts-say</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2">"<br>
>> target="_blank"></font></tt><a target="_blank" href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-11/future-chocolate-will-be-rare-delicacy-analysts-say"><tt><font size="2">http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-11/future-chocolate-will-be-rare-delicacy-analysts-say</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2"></a></div><br>
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>> href="</font></tt><a target="_blank" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/chocolate-worth-its-weight-in-gold-2127874.html"><tt><font size="2">http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/chocolate-worth-its-weight-in-gold-2127874.html</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2">"<br>
>> target="_blank"></font></tt><a target="_blank" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/chocolate-worth-its-weight-in-gold-2127874.html"><tt><font size="2">http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/chocolate-worth-its-weight-in-gold-2127874.html</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2"></a></div><br>
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>> href="</font></tt><a target="_blank" href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-09/sweet-breakthrough-scientists-led-candy-company-sequence-chocolate-genome"><tt><font size="2">http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-09/sweet-breakthrough-scientists-led-candy-company-sequence-chocolate-genome</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2">"<br>
>> target="_blank"></font></tt><a target="_blank" href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-09/sweet-breakthrough-scientists-led-candy-company-sequence-chocolate-genome"><tt><font size="2">http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-09/sweet-breakthrough-scientists-led-candy-company-sequence-chocolate-genome</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2"></a></div><br>
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MoonBranch Botanicals<br>
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Robin Alton Suggs
MoonBranch Botanicals
5294 Yellow Creek Road
Robbinsville, North Carolina 28771
USA
Telephone: 828.479.2788
Email: moonbranch@earthlink.net
www.moonbranch.com
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www.localharvest.org/store/M16074
Member:
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project; Farm Partner
Green Products Alliance
North Carolina Consortium on Natural Medicines
North Carolina Goodness Grows/NCDA&CS
Southwestern North Carolina RC&D Council
United Plant Savers
“If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”
- Thomas Jefferson
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