What G-d Has Called Good

Man can make so much better . . . I do hope you note the tone of sarcasm.  Genetic mutilation, as I call it, is being subtly classified with hybridization.  These two terms and definitions are vastly different.  Breeding two different breeds of of the same species of animals or grafting a tree branch of the same species is hybridization.  Altering creation on the genetic level is invasive and changes the integrity and cellular identity of the organism.  

Another subject we addressed was Genetic Alterations. It has suddenly come into the spotlight that genetic alterations must be "bad". Really? Who wants to go back to grapes or watermelons full of seeds? How about an ear of corn that's 5 inches long? When I was a kid, Angus and Hereford cattle were about 4 feet tall. Hybridization and genetic alterations have been with us for hundreds if not thousands of years. With our growing worldwide population, we must continue to look for ways to grow better, faster, safer food. No matter how you look at it, we really need to eat!

There are two wonderful examples in Scripture of hybridization, which is not at all genetic alteration.  Jacob crossbred the herds in his care for strength and numbers.  We know to this day, the purer the pedigree the more inherit some recessive traits become.  I know from my own herd, a purebred buck will throw "ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted" with most any doe that is a different breed of goat or a cross.

I have also learned as I strive for my "Jacob's herd" this particular cross bred buck will produce shorter legged babies for easier births, but good milk producing does and meaty bucks.  The buck pictured is Jedidiah, Jed for short.  He is an Alpine/pygmy cross.  His mother was the biggest milk goat on the place and his sire was a stocky short legged buck that, as it turns out, was quite agile in fence jumping . . . as this guy arrived rather unexpectedly.

And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons . . . And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.  And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.  And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.  Torah of Holy Scripture

Paul referred to the grafted wild olive branch.  Hybridization has been around for thousands of years.  The only part of genetic alterations that take place in a petri dish in a laboratory that has been around for centuries is the attitude: "we can be as gods."