Abundant Robotics is a spinoff of the global elite SRI International (Stanford Research Institute) based in Palo Alto, California Apples have been picked the same way – by hand – throughout history, but not any more. In Washington state alone, over 125,000 seasonal workers from Mexico pick apples – it’s estimated that as many as 70 percent of them are illegals. Americans generally refuse to pick apples, unless it is a tree in their own back yard.
Oxitec is a subsidiary of Intrexon whose goal “is to establish a database of information about people, including physical characteristics, health histories, and responses to treatments…” and to build “a better world through better DNA”.
The United Nations would like to remove every meat animal from the face of the planet, if it could, and especially cattle. People, they say, would be much more sustainable if they ate insect protein instead.
The sight of cockroaches may evoke disgust but they can be a boon for human health, said a team of scientists who have shown that…