A goddamned mosquito just bit me on my face in my own house because I live in Florida and it’s impossible to get away from these little fuckers.
[W]ith the GMO mosquito, there might be a way to kill a bunch of them that carry Zika…but of-fucking-course, the same groups who hate DEET and the mosquito trucks and vaccines and GMOs and probably toilet paper are thrashing around all apoplectic about the idea of a genetically modified bug….…
This [GMO] mosquito is awesome and I want to release thousands in the ditch behind my house but here is what the whiny fuckwits who oppose it are saying:
Friends of Earth: Waaaah, the mosquitoes might mess up the ecosystem. What will birds eat? We just don’t knooooow. *handwringing*
Answer: It’s an invasive species. Florida doesn’t need it. Birds will eat another type of mosquito or bug because…have you people ever been to Florida? The whole fucking state is bird food.
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Center for Food Safety: People might ingest the mosquito.
Answer: Don’t eat fucking mosquitoes and if you do happen to eat a bunch of mosquitoes, what’s the difference between eating a traditional gross mosquito and a GMO mosquito when you swallow it and it goes into your stomach? Does the Center for Food safety think you become a mosquito?
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Institute of Responsible Technology’s Jeffrey Smith: Mosquito saliva could change the gene pool of future generations. I don’t know what that means but I am a ballroom dancer who wrote a book about seeds so I am an expert.
Answer: Oxitec only releases the males which don’t bite. Also, WHAT? Smith is trying to scare people with remote, made-up bullshit about bug spit when there is a mosquito causing real life diseases that humans are getting here in Real People World.
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