{"id":91492,"date":"2019-05-31T22:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T05:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/is-darpa-planning-to-infect-insects-with-gm-viruses-for-use-in-food-crops"},"modified":"2019-05-31T22:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T05:22:43","slug":"is-darpa-planning-to-infect-insects-with-gm-viruses-for-use-in-food-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/is-darpa-planning-to-infect-insects-with-gm-viruses-for-use-in-food-crops","title":{"rendered":"Is DARPA Planning to Infect Insects with GM Viruses for Use in Food Crops?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-darpa-planning-to-infect-insects-with-gm-viruses-for-use-in-food-crops.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Continuing from <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/amp\/en_us\/article\/598kq5\/scientists-fear-darpas-insects-allies-will-attack-global-food-supply-with-viruses\">Motherboard<\/a>, <em>\u201cIn an email to Motherboard, a DARPA spokesperson said that four research teams have received allotments of the $45 million funding from the agency as a part of Insect Allies, and that all teams have now entered phase two. The teams include researchers from Penn State University, the University of Texas, and Ohio State University.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t difficult to tell what opinion this article represents. Do we need this, or want to trust people with placing genetically modified viruses in the crops that become our grocery store produce?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakingtimes.com\/2018\/10\/15\/is-darpa-planning-to-infect-insects-with-gm-viruses-for-use-in-food-crops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing from Motherboard, \u201cIn an email to Motherboard, a DARPA spokesperson said that four research teams have received allotments of the $45 million funding from the agency as a part of Insect Allies, and that all teams have now entered phase two. The teams include researchers from Penn State University, the University of Texas, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91492","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\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}