GMO Mosquitos is not a new show on FX, but rather reality that may be coming to the Florida Keys in the very near future. Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that is responsible for the spread of the Zika virus, has been found in Florida, and thus the push to get these genetically modified mosquitoes released has become of utmost priority, for some.
Oxitec, the British producer of the GMO mosquite, is pushing for the release as well. CEO, Hadyn Parry said, “This mosquito is non-native to the US and difficult to control, with the best available methods only able to reduce the population by up to 50 percent, which is simply not enough.”
The rising risk of a mosquito infestation and disease outbreak presents an opportunity for one British firm, Oxitec, which has developed a method for breeding Aedes aegypti that kills mosquito larvae, AP reported.
According to Oxitec’s website, the process involves injecting a “lethal gene” into either the male sperm or female egg that eventually kills the offspring, according to Truth and Action.
However, not everyone is on board, as some residents of the Keys have collected 160,000 signatures to petition against the release. There has been bitter opposition by those who are staunchly againt the “genetic modification industry”.
Read more regarding the release of the insects and those fighting against it on the next page.
End times, pestilence…etc…
We are perverting God’s creations, doing genetic engineering/modifications. It will backfire on humanity, not help it… Please don’t turn my comment into an argumentative fallicies… those atheistic evolutionists do enough of that, having nothing better to do.
Shelby Stone
Yep zika virus BIOLOGICAL WARFARE jus an old Army Sgt here
US ARMY BIOLOGICAL WARFARE ALLRIGHT
don’t mess with mother nature. italways backfires
Find out who is releasing them.. go to that area and beat the ever living$#%&!@*out of the person releasing them.
Quit f****** with Mother Nature stupid ass
I read a book before these magazines you speak of came out. First science book written. Says when humans start messing with genes as happened before a great flood then look up for fire will cleanse the world the second time. People turning to ash. But how could that ever happen right?
Remember Jurassic park?
So hypoallergenic cats and seedless watermelons are fine, but we draw the line at mosquitoes….i could understand the debate if this were about human cloning….but stuff like this has been going on for decades. Let us also remember that the Lord GAVE man dominion …” over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”