{"id":295,"date":"2016-08-31T00:40:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=295"},"modified":"2016-08-31T00:40:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:40:35","slug":"genetic-engineering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/genetic-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or you might say welcome to Dr. Frankenstein&#8217;s laboratory.<br \/>\nMen, greedy men at that, are seeking to modify mankinds food supply.<br \/>\nWhere are the major &#8220;God is so great&#8221; religions of the world, after<br \/>\nall God created everything we eat did he not?, how dare man tinker<br \/>\nwith God&#8217;s creation! I guess they have other fish to fry, on Fridays<br \/>\nthat is.<br \/>\nMankind has spent millennia discovering natures edibles. In doing so<br \/>\nit is possible they genetically modified themselves to the point<br \/>\nthat they can consume now  what once would have killed them. As you<br \/>\nknow, the tomato was once considered poisonous and perhaps it was.<br \/>\nProof of this posit is all around us, for there are creatures out<br \/>\nthere that do consume things that would surely kill us. Obviously<br \/>\nthey have adapted.<br \/>\nBut to get back to my main point, it has taken thousands of years<br \/>\nto ascertain what will benefit us and what will do us harm, and so<br \/>\nit has been down through the ages, live and learn, if you live.<br \/>\nNow, out of these Transylvanian laboratories comes the promise of<br \/>\nsomething new, a new way to produce food, a boone to humanity;<br \/>\nbut somehow I just can&#8217;t get it out of my mind that out of similar<br \/>\nlaboratories, staffed by similar zealots, came the wonder drug<br \/>\nThalidomide.<br \/>\n                                                    Islander<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or you might say welcome to Dr. Frankenstein&#8217;s laboratory. Men, greedy men at that, are seeking to modify mankinds food supply. Where are the major &#8220;God is so great&#8221; religions of the world, after all God created everything we eat did he not?, how dare man tinker with God&#8217;s creation! I guess they have other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/genetic-engineering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Genetic engineering&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-295","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}