Joshua Roberts

http://www.reddit.com/tb/hcjfb

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For conventionally grown fruit, (grown with chemicals inputs), the PLU code on the sticker consists of four numbers. Organically grown fruit has a five-numeral PLU prefaced by the number 9. Genetically engineered (GM) fruit has a five-numeral PLU prefaced by the number 8.

For example:

A conventionally grown banana would be: 4011

An organic banana would be: 94011

A genetically engineered (GE or GMO) banana would be: 84011
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Biotech Enhancement and Natural Law

The fundamental problem which no one wants to address is borne out of arrogance, we think we understand the incredibly complex systems well enough to tamper with them and ultimately we will be unable to either predict or understand the consequences. And there will be consequences, unforeseen, detrimental consequences, which, once realized will be both unmanageable and irreversible. Much as we have already done with GMO crops and livestock, antibiotics and a host of other things ranging from tampering with the ecosystem to gaming human behavior via the behavioral sciences, we are creating problems we cannot solve and the culprit is scientific arrogance, which is to say the unscientific arrogance of some scientists. For this entire attitude flies in the face of scientific conscience and the very method that underwrites all practice in the discrete sciences themselves. We have replaced rigorous circumspection with the profit motive and we are and we will be paying the price for it, my great fear is that the terms of that price and its ultimate cost will be more than our species, such as it is can sustain. We are on a a downhill slope at the end of which the human species will be destroyed by design, we are quickly engineering ourselves out of existence and the only thing that can stop it is for a culture of opposition to flourish. This seems impossible amid a growing sentiment that not only are these practices acceptable, but, that they are safe and do not pose a threat to the future of our species.

But I have written a great deal on this subject and it should be clear to anyone conversant therewith that post-humanism and trans-humanism are really misnomers which rely on a misinterpretation of the term human. It would be more appropriate to think of cyberization and genetic alteration as non-human or even anti-human. This does not represent a variation and certainly not a transubstantiation or elevation to a higher type, what it represents is death and even a truncation or outright negation of the type and form.