Frankenmosquitos

[MachineGhost]

It never fails to amaze me what unmitigated idiots we have running the FDA.  It's hard to believe that profit/career ideology always trumps common sense.  Am I living in a dystopian SciFi movie?  Jeeeeze.  They're going to be released in the next month or two in a new location, Key Haven, unless enough protests flood the FDA.

“South Florida’s environmentally sensitive landscape already endures many exotic and invasive species,”? said Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter. “The proposed open-air release of millions of unregulated, experimental insects into the Florida Keys opens a Pandora’s box that cannot easily be sealed.”?

The experiment raises serious concerns around the impact releasing genetically engineered mosquitoes could have on public health and the environment. This is the first genetically engineered insect to be introduced in the United States with the intent to wipe out a wild population in the name of disease control.

“The risks genetically engineered mosquitoes pose to the local ecology and to human health have yet to be properly studied by independent experts, nor has this technology been proven to even work in limiting the spread of disease,”? said Eric Hoffman, food and technology policy campaigner for Friends of the Earth. “Right now, the residents are left having to take Oxitec’s word that its technology is safe. Citizens in the Keys deserve better science and deserve to be protected from this unproven and risky technology by their elected officials.”?

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/pressr ... osquitoes/

[madbean]

I'm gonna bet I don't see many "Save the Mosquito" signs the next time I go down to the Keys.

[jatwell]

This was from 2012, did it happen?  Fallout?

[MachineGhost]

This was from 2012, did it happen?  Fallout?

Stay tuned.  They're being released in the next month or so unless stopped.  Madness.