TAKE COVER! PENTAGON'S GMO INSECT SOLDIERS ARE COMING!

The Pentagon Wants to Make an Army of Virus-Spreading Insects. Scientists Are Concerned.

By Brandon Specktor Source

Genetically Modified Crops were placed in the market in mid 90’s. Since then, GMO crops have reached almost 200 million hectares or about 12% of total field crops growing area. Without an ambition to analyze the GMO phenomenon here, in a sentence is could be stated that after GMO came to the stage, nothing had ever been the same. The Stone age of transgenic technology was finished somewhere at the end of the first decade of this Century. The game changer in genome editing appeared to be a method called CRISPR-Cas which enable the more sophisticated gene manipulation, by far, and gives the ability to introduce a particular induced mutation throughout the whole genome of an organism. Moreover, the effect of the genome change could be visible in one generation, and no crosses and/or the next generation of progenies is required. The process in reverse direction is possible, as well, that put a cherry on the top of this. The changes in technology are of that scale that put a question of GMO definition validity. Not to mention that CRISPER opens the road and speed up the further evolution of genome editing laboratory techniques. Though, CRISPR needs to be polished some more, it is improving by day, giving a whole new world of opportunities as a powerful biological scissors, for more precise genetic surgery. However, the attractiveness of new genome editing technologies is not promising benefits for medicine, or agriculture, mostly. A “Military Intelligence”, as it seems, has found an angle, as well. An angle that could give you the shivers.

Insect Allies winged soldiers armed with GMO viruses. Are they meant to be crop protectors, food security guardians, or wishers attackers on all that grows and moves in next generation biological warfare?