If we could enhance our performance in every room, not just the bedroom, who wouldn't? It's not even a question; huge industries exist and are born every day surrounding the fountains of youth and health. The same groups who cry 'evil science' do so while reheating food in microwaves and consuming snacks that are manufactured from petrochemicals. We don't know how that works but the foods hot and the gummy bears are tasty.

It's not just a magic cream that makes Barry Bonds Barry Bonds. Hell anyone can go get the magic cream; you don't see patrons organizing to test bartenders for performance enhancing substances. In fact the manufacturing sector has long experimented with the environment of workplace leaving no option untried to gain the elusive enhanced performance and raised productivity.

During the Europe's dark ages a lemon was a performance-enhancing drug. One part of our human family is always reaching out; playing with fire, inventing agriculture, creating language, and envisioning flying machines. It may be a stretch to say it's the same global village discussion going on now about performance enhancing drugs and whether or not to stay put and make cities. Obviously cilivization as a choice had more influence than mixing genetic cocktails.

The will of our species; is it still food and shelter. Or is it a search for the most advantageous body mass. Faster, Farther, Higher, Stronger, living longer, hasn't this been our drive always? Geneticists now work like NASCAR mechanics striving to improve on the basic design. Having the ability to go into the structure of the metals themselves. Not just the basic breasts, nose, facelift and tummy tuck. We're off into a whole new territory. Breeding for a perfect nose and immunity system.

We ask our plants to accept genes from the animal kingdom, well ask is mild. Now we don't have to understand DNA or RNA, in fact most funded geneticists in interviews profusely preface all comments with the point of how little we know. The NewLeaf potato, a patented plant, by Monsanto has genes to resist and even be offensive and kill the dreaded Colorado potato beetle. A common occurring enzyme in the soil Bt was grafted on the russet Burbank strain to create this condition. The downside, organic farmers fear the beetle will develop a resistance and neutralize one of their most potent natural defenses against the beetle.

We slipped the genome off the spider onto a goat and voila we can easily separate out in the milk something not meant for kids, a fiber that makes Kevlar look like kite string when tested for flexibility and strength. It seems like Hollywood and fantasy but it's Main Street and reality. There is no way to shirk the responsibility, it's the humans after all.

No sporting event by human or beast can now go on without the drug test. The steroids come in oral, intravenous, topical creams, and other methods that are not for the squeamish. Take all that staff money, lab costs and fund something worthwhile. One of the philosophical beauties of genetics is how close to each other we are. On the genome DNA tree we all sit on the same branch, and a bit humbling but we're not that different from the jellyfish.

Why fight it? Let them graft an extra arm on Michael Phelps and see if the other three-armed swimming medalists can catch him. One thing we do and do well is evolve, which way is up to each of us individually. What do you have to say to your DNA?

Spider Goat

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