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Musing about Industrial Biotech

Posted September 08, 2006 10:00 AM
Pathfinder Tags: biotech biotechnology organic

Plant-based hair dyes; corn-based bioplastics; textile fibers made from sugar — the line between organic and synthetic seems to get blurrier all the time. How about using oranges and carbon dioxide to make plastics?

The WorldChanging Web site carries some interesting thoughts, ruminations, and links on this subject.

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Re: Musing about Industrial Biotech

09/22/2006 7:06 PM

The chemists used 'organic' long before the food people. I'm not even one (chemist) but I still resent the theft of the word.

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09/24/2006 9:13 AM

Frankly, as the auto idustries and the oil industries were in their virgin years of developement, there was a natural fiber being used for the products, that are now being made from petrolium based in-organic substances. This natural fiber was found in all 48 continental states as a product that could be grown with very small amounts of general maitenance. Once other principals were discovered of this product, the oil and auto manufactures went into legislation to outlaw the use of this natural fiber.

Mainly due to the fact that it was easy to grow and was actually a simple item to obtain, thus making it a very lucrative item that most anyone could prosper as a supplier of such items. Everything made from a petrolium based primary in its' molecular ID, that is used in the general automobile, such as seat covers, dash boards, interior coverings, everything made from plastics was actually made from this original natural plant substance. But since the big auto manufactures and oil companies merged in their claim to conquer the general public and rake the money from our pockets, they have lobied our legislature from the beginnings and now everything made from this natural product is outlawed and anyone caught with this natural product is subject to long term prison terms in this country.

Now do I have your attention!

If you really need to know of this natural product, that can be grown accross the country with very little efforts, and a great deal of profits........you here about it in the news every week of someone being busted for possesion of said substances.

Only the female plant is toxic, and it requires fo several male plants to enhence the properties of the femal plant. Which has been under study for nearly 100 years by the medical society for its' principal natural atomic structures in the quest for more reliable natural health aids. Our government has put the big squeeze on its' growth and has a heavy handle on which institution is allowed to posses such quantities of this substance. Clothing use to be made from this product and other useful products were garnered from this natural product.

But since the auto manufactures and oil companies rule our nation, our nation will continually be at the whims of such nonsence and our lawmakers are on the take in this situation as well. They make sure the big companies have their ways about our lives and the continual prosecutions of the growth of this natural product.

This natural product is commonly known as hemp. It is garnerd from the natural herb otherwise known as the marijuana plant. Only the female species of this plant is toxit and has the altering effects to our chemistry once injested into our systems. The male species of this plant does not have these same effects on our systems as the female does. This plants' fibers are several times stronger then cotton or any other natural known fiberous materials we use in the garment industries. But since it was so easy to grow and had such diversified properties, that can still be used for several industries. The oil companies felt it to be a great foe in their quest to harness the world under the falseness of how well our societies would flourish with such prospects and the unknown factor of the numerouse products that could be created from a petrolium based structure.

Well, they had their way with our country and the growth and development of this industry has been flourishing over the past 100 years. Only a small percentile of our populace has actually gained conciderable monitary growth from this product. But, to actually go as far as having our government control the use of the other, and far more environmentally friendly natural resource, is too far. Our country has been duped by certain organizations and big business corporations and robbed blindly by such corporations. Now is the time to have this resource brought back into the light of our nation, specifically for its natural uses and environmentally friendly attributes.

The use of petrolium based products has created nothing but a mess of this planet. Nations around this globe are all now struggaling with the control of such waste on their own shores and in their boudries with this very problem of non-environmentally friendly pollution and waste. Petrolium products need to be handled with a more strengant measures by its' creators. It should be brought back upon those corporations who have been the main stream of development of such products. Our country and planet is dieing from such waste.

Food for thought, why a natural resource was banned for its' principle attributes to the growth of our nation? A threat to another controlling factor in industry.

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