Human-chicken hybrids producing drugs in their eggs
Forget the goose that laid the golden egg — they’ve invented a chicken that spits out drugs!
I’ve been warning you for years about dangerous medical experiments being conducted across the country right now — ones that blur the lines between people and animals.
There’s a secret ranch in South Dakota raising cows with human immune systems. And another company is developing human-pig hybrids that can be used for organ transplants.
But now the FDA has just signed off on a plan to load chickens with human genes so they can produce a powerful and dangerous drug inside their eggs.
And it’s a matter of time before one of these Frankenbirds flies the coop into our food supply and puts us all at risk.
That’s what William Muir, a geneticist at Purdue University, has to say about the FDA giving Alexion Pharmaceuticals permission to start producing “transgenic chickens.”
Well, if this is the brave new world we’re living in, I’ll stick with the old one.
You see, these chickens aren’t going to be like the oven roasters you pick up at your supermarket.
They’ve been injected with our genes so they can produce special eggs that contain a new drug with human enzymes, called Kanuma, inside them. It’s for people suffering from a very rare inherited disorder called Wolman disease.
Just imagine cracking open an egg for an omelet and worrying if it has some powerful prescription drug inside!
Now everyone’s been really careful to point out that none of the chickens are getting sick while scientists play God with their DNA.
That’s great. But wouldn’t it be nice if they were just as worried about our health?
You see, the FDA is promising that its crack team of investigators will make sure these human-chicken hybrids (I’m picturing something like Foghorn Leghorn) won’t end up on our dinner table and poison us.
But who are we kidding? This is the exact same government that’s let anthrax, Ebola and other deadly pathogens go missing from high level facilities more than once.
And now we’re supposed to trust that they’ll keep these drug-filled eggs — and the birds that produced them — from ending up in our chicken Kiev or quiche?
Not me.
The fact is, the Feds have been dipping their toes in this science — called “farmaceuticals” — for years, even though we don’t really understand the risks. There are even genetically modified goats now that make blood thinners in their milk.
But it’s time we all got in touch with the FDA and demand they stop these experiments for good — or at least until there’s some real proof they can keep us safe.
Because sooner or later, one of these genetic freaks is going to end up in the food supply — and innocent people could end up buying the farm.
Sources:
“US government approves transgenic chicken” Rachel Becker, December 9, 2015, Nature, nature.com
