BioTechEugenics Human digestive tract could be changed so that people could eat hay and grass

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Always concerned about the supposed imbalance between food production and population, many eugenicists look to reduce human nutritional needs through genetic engineering. To save food costs, Dr AM Chakrabarty, suggests that by altering a few genes the human digestive tract could be changed so that people could eat hay and grass. This cheap food alternative might be used to feed the unemployed population of today or the slave population of tomorrow. Dr Kim Atwood, chairman of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Illinois, sees no reason to stop at a cross between humans and cattle, but suggests the develop of a human-plant hybrid 'that combines the happy qualities of animals and plants, such as one with a large brain so that it can indulge in philosophy and also a photosynthetic area on its back so that it would not have to eat.' Source <http://www.scribd.com/doc/2781724/Will-We-Cease-To-Be-Humane>

 

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Several prominent families are responsible for funding and promoting eugenics in America, namely the Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harriman, and Osborn families. Two families, the Rockefellers and the Osborns, are particularly significant. John D. Rockefeller Sr. contributed a large amount of money to build the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the early 1900's, which housed the Eugenics Records Office from 1910-1944. Rockefeller influence also spread overseas to Germany, where the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Eugenics, Anthropology and Human Heredity resided. Much of the money used to run these facilities came from Rockefeller. [5] These institutes became centers for Nazi eugenics programs during the reign of Adolf Hitler. Source <http://www.scribd.com/doc/2782599/Eugenics-and-Environmentalism-From-quality-control-to-quantity-control>

 

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In response to the cloning of a sheep in Scotland, President Clinton requested that the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) investigate and make recommendations on the prospects of human cloning by May 26, 1997. Citing matters of morality and spirituality, the President, on March 4, 1997, imposed a temporary moratorium on federal funding of human cloning research. This paper was prepared for NBAC to assist in its deliberations and policy recommendations. Source <http://www.scribd.com/doc/2782220/CLONING-HUMAN-BEINGS>