Without belaboring the point beyond what is appropriate, you need to know that there are indeed natural processes, i.e. ones that operate without man’s interference, mostly facilitated by viruses, that do indeed splice genes from one species into another.
I must state also for the record that I oppose, as should any thinking person, careless, reckless, or casual gene splicing.
"I must state also for the record that I oppose, as should any thinking person, careless, reckless, or casual gene splicing."
You being a fellow-freeper, I sort of thought that would be the case. :)
So, John Valentine, I think we are now on the same wave length and I do hope that you will look more into the horrible negative effect that neonicatoid pesticides are having on the honeybee population and what that means to our civilization. I know it is so very hard to believe the environmental crap coming out of the mouths of liberals these days as so much of it is just not true......but trust me, this honey bee disaster is real. My hubby and I are just hobbyist beekeepers, but since he retired we have increased our apiary and now have over 30 hives. Because we do not have to depend on it for a living, we can afford to experiment and try to find ways to keep all chemicals and pesticides out of our hives..... something that the commercial beekeepers cannot afford to try as they risk loosing their entire livelihood. The past 4 years with CCD so prevalent, we are loosing more than half our hives each year and have to recoup (re-grow)them each spring. Some of our friends are loosing more like 80% each year, but we can keep half of ours in GA and half at our place up in NC. That helps. We are both staunch Christians and conservatives and very passionate about the health of the world's honeybees and take every opportunity to get the word out to everyone else. I hope that I can count on YOU now as an advocate for the honeybee (thanks for listening and God Bless you).