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To Our World People,
We are a UK based community nature conservancy organization. We are urging our world people stand together to initiate a global movement to form an International Bio Technologies Registry (International Registry for Bio Technologies?) in order to regulate all biotech-related laboratory activities globally. Generally, most of our organization efforts, thus far have been dedicated to wildlife and habitat protection. However, our main concern at present is the possibility or probability of a catastrophe or massive extinction of mankind and all forms of wildlife species.
A few months ahead of the Wuhan, Covid 19 pandemic, there was a pig extinction flu across China, that wiped out a hundred million domestic pigs and wild boars. We are now questioning if this farming industry disaster in China was just a coincidence, or another irresponsible man-made biotech disaster. The scary part regarding today's genetic engineering technology is that materials and equipment are readily available globally, in the market, or online shopping. Anyone with little biotech lab training skills can purchase these products and set up a lab to alter the genomes of the microorganisms with or without understanding its consequences to the public’s safety, or top it with a terrorist agenda. Any natural changes in the said genome are defined as mutations. However, any unnatural changes altered by human factors are left up to individuals' political propaganda views and interpretations to define it or explain to the public. We don't believe that today's said genome altering technologies have ever been scientifically defined, classified, or openly discussed and its potential hazards to the public and wildlife.
In UK, Canada and the USA, project funding is monitored by a small review panel of professional individuals such as Internal Review Board. The process of choosing the review panel members can be consumed with conflict of interest. Similar to that of the nuclear safety industry team members' conflict, that ultimately led to the Fukushima disaster. The biotech industry basically, has no kind of meaningful legislation for professional responsibility to the public at all, let alone specified law enforcement. We strongly believe that these biotechs and material supply industries should be regulated globally. Also, a set of technical codes clearly defining health hazard classifications and military grades of technologies are badly needed. Furthermore, failure to comply must be backed up by enforceable international laws and covenants. Importantly, to note and recognize there is an imperative need to initiate a compulsory global transparent registry system that can monitor and review all bio lab activities. Weapon-grade or class of biotechnology research, being concealed under the covers of civilian fields, could lead to worldwide human and wildlife extinction. The Covid 19 virus, which has become a worldwide pandemic, has created an overwhelming fear among us all. Constant panic, worry and fear is now the new norm. Our health professionals are risking their lives, working on the front lines for 12 long hours, limited to only two masks for protection, per day. All our lives are now threatened, our daily routines altered, halted and forever changed. Confined inside our homes, worrying, waiting and praying that this deadly, invisible, infectious agent will soon cease to exist. We have sent an open letter to urge our PM and Mr. Bill Gates to initiate and lead a global movement. An International Bio Technologies Registry to monitor and protect the industry, including protecting the intellectual property rights of scientists.
We must together stand as one and insist on the protection of this beautiful planet, our precious wildlife species and our right for life.
Warmest regards,
Catherine Massaro
