Selective Breeding vs Genetic Modification Part 1: Selective Breeding

Selective Breeding

Selective Breeding is about people breeding plants and animals to produce offspring with a desired physical characteristic. It is a highly successful method that has stood the test of time. For instance, in the thoroughbred race horse industry, a male Kentucky Derby winner might be bred with a female Kentucky Derby winner in the hope that the foal they produce will also win a Kentucky Derby. Breeding together of horses that consistently finish last might produce offspring that also finish last.

Origins

Selective breeding has been practised by people for millennia. Scientists say that wheat and other cereal crops, for instance, have been produced by selectively breeding grasses over thousands of years. A priest who was also a scientist, Gregor Johann Mendel, was the first to turn selective breeding into a science.

Natural Selection

Without human intervention, the mating of plants and animals occurs naturally, a process called ‘Natural Selection’. Natural Selection was made famous as a science by Charles Darwin.

Problems

Selective breeding sometimes produces offspring with characteristics that are not wanted. Usually these characteristics appear immediately or within a few years, and, normally, all offspring are destroyed so they can’t continue to reproduce. For instance, bees have occasionally been selectively bred together in the hope of producing more honey, which they do, but they also aggressively attack people and so they are destroyed. But, in some cases, if there are ulterior motives in breeders, then the non-beneficial breeds may not be destroyed, and the non-beneficial genes can enter into the general gene pool, creating problems for many years to come, maybe forever.

Eugenics

Eugenics was made infamous by Adolf Hitler. It is the selective breeding of humans, in Hitler’s case, to create a ‘pure Aryan race’. Hitler’s idea was not original, the Spartans in ancient Greece did a similar thing to improve the military characteristics of their citizens. There are significant ethical issues with eugenics, and Richard Dawkins is ensuring that the debate continues.

Corrupting Power in Selective Breeding

The main reason for selective breeding is to produce better offspring that enhance the human experience. But there is one form of human experience that has non-beneficial consequences, and that is an inflated sense of earthly power and prestige. You see this in some dog breeders, the King Charles Spaniel, for instance, can suffer from a breeding problem called ’syringomyelia’, a condition which occurs when a dog’s skull is too small for its brain. The breeders know they are torturing the dogs that suffer from this but they do it anyway because it gives them a sense of power to have a ‘perfect dog’, and proudly display the first prize trophy on the mantelpiece.

Beyond Selective Breeding – Luther Burbank’s Black Rose

Luther Burbank was famous for using selective breeding to create over 200 new varieties of plants. One of these, the black rose, escaped him for many years. Finally, it is said, he achieved his goal by talking to and asking a dark rose bush to produce a black rose!

Beyond Selective Breeding – Celestial Words of Power

Investigation of the effects that result from resonating Celestial Words of Power with the intent of affecting the genetic code in some way has not yet begun, and possibly won’t begin in my time. Nevertheless, having witnessed some amazing results from the use of resonance, I would expect to see some interesting experiments being carried out one day. These experiments would include protecting  yourself from some of the harmful effects of consuming genetically modified foods by the use of Celestial Resonance. To find out more about Celestial Words of Power, click here.

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