{"id":27700,"date":"2016-07-11T10:34:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/biodiversity-gmos-gene-drives-and-the-militarized-mind"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:51:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:51:57","slug":"biodiversity-gmos-gene-drives-and-the-militarized-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/biodiversity-gmos-gene-drives-and-the-militarized-mind","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity, GMOs, Gene Drives and the Militarized Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biodiversity-gmos-gene-drives-and-the-militarized-mind.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice callout of the Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cAmaranth, Amaranto, love-lies-bleeding, tassel flower, Joseph\u2019s coat, or ramdana (gods own grain) is the grain of well-being,\u201d Shiva writes. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindwhisperings\/6103352652\/in\/photolist-aikh79-3cCqP-gvDBS-7b7mt3-6jCk8J-dbdokK-gboHto-gboxFA-5ogFZc-hGb1vr-aev5YT-hNFYzB-2v24xQ-Kf7hL-9tEUCf-a3AubM-f6XiET-f7cxbf-f6XhAe-og3RyB-5h8mii-og3Q6M-gJrjXd-pbYcU1-85HDMh-bujWWu-93VfyX-qySfW7-3f1yU5-dpQhpi-4YJhhK-d9oHtL-aeWhMZ-6ZY6vu-3UJ3Zo-8DvHhp-amzQAL-5jy2x1-3cCsX-5vjUF-fErjQQ-5m6Lot-fErjK5-fErj1W-fE9Hvv-fE9HZ2-fE9JjR-fEriEq-fE9HiP-5nG7Jz\">Elizabeth Weller<\/a>\/flickr\/cc) <\/p>\n<p>A recent report from the National Academy of Science of The United States, titled \u201cGene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty, and Aligning Research with Public Values,\u201d warns:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOne possible goal of release of a gene-drive modified organism is to cause the extinction of the target species or a drastic reduction in its abundance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/enewspf.com\/2016\/07\/10\/biodiversity-gmos-gene-drives-and-the-militarized-mind\/\">http:\/\/enewspf.com\/2016\/07\/10\/biodiversity-gmos-gene-drives-...ized-mind\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice callout of the Gates Foundation. \u201cAmaranth, Amaranto, love-lies-bleeding, tassel flower, Joseph\u2019s coat, or ramdana (gods own grain) is the grain of well-being,\u201d Shiva writes. (Photo: Elizabeth Weller\/flickr\/cc) A recent report from the National Academy of Science of The United States, titled \u201cGene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty, and Aligning Research with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66963,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27700\/revisions\/66963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}