EPA and their genetic work.

[Windy in Kansas]

BTW, did any or all of you know that the EPA funds some genetic research?

Thought I'd mention it but didn't want to take away from another thread.

You can read one example of their funding and research here: http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/.../6356/report/F

Such funding has been going on for at least a couple of decades, some with the Boyce Thompson Institute regarding genetic enhancement of baculoviruses.

[geo in mi]

Maybe they will come up with a virus that kills CPB without use of insecticedes, huh?

geo

[Windy in Kansas]

Some of their early work was with insecticides. Control of gypsy moth was mentioned in one article. Expect focus along those lines might be the pine bark beetle too which is killing pine trees. Where where they when the chestnut tree blight hit so long ago?

Science has come a long way but there is still a long way to go along some lines. Whether man should poke his nose in Mother Nature and God's business will probably not be learned in our lifetime.

[Patt]

The Stand comes to mind here.....

[rambler]

We are losing alot of tree species over the last 100 years with our global travel, aren't we? Chestnut, elm, oak, pine, ash. I'm sure more. Here local everything gets planted to maple as the others get threats. Wond what happens when the maples catch something?

Sorry for the thread drift.

I'm still concerned about the research started, and soon ramped up, on mammals, including ourselves. That will be the throny one for me. What's ethical and what isn't.....

The plant work done so far appears to be fairly well done. I understand others disagree with that thought, I'm glad we live where we can disagree on that.

I'm sitting here with "Empire of the Ants" on TV, a terribly made scare movie about giant ants terrorizing & eating Joan Collins and other folks in southern Florida. Irony.

--->Paul

[Windy in Kansas]

Originally Posted by rambler

I'm glad we live where we can disagree on that.

I'm sitting here with "Empire of the Ants" on TV, a terribly made scare movie about giant ants terrorizing & eating Joan Collins and other folks in southern Florida. Irony.

I certainly agree that we should all be able to disagree and consider others viewpoints.

As to the ants, had not heard of that movie. Try "Them" on for another. 50s era with ants exposed to radiation and turned into giants or should that be gi-ants?

As school kids were were treated to a viewing of it as a Halloween movie freebie. A lot of the school kids of many ages had to be taken out of the theater as they couldn't handle it. Guess I was always able to distinguish something like that as simply fiction, same for westerns and gunfights, etc.