Quote:
Originally Posted by AnimeFan188
"Genetic engineering scares a lot of people, partly because we love making sci-fi
movies and video games starring walking humanoid horrors that resulted from
experiments gone wrong. And, while the idea of something like growing a human heart
in a sheep's body just seems wrong somehow, it probably seems less wrong to the
person who actually needs a heart transplant.
What we're trying to say is that as weird as it is, genetic engineering may save your life
some day thanks to things like ..."
See:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19343...your-life.html |
Well, the only thing that pisses me off, is that with the same argument. Bio-tech firms like Monsanto try to advertise their genetically modified crops. These have no advantage for the consumer, only the producer benefits because he can now use more pesticides that would otherwise harm the plant.
For the consumer it might actually be a bad deal... imagine you have an allergy against a certain acid in tomatoes. Now imagine for whatever reason a bio tech firm injects the genetic information that is responsible for this acid into other farm products. As a consumer you've now alergies against these genetically modified farm products too.
Besides, you can see in hospitals where the artificial intervention in the environment can lead to (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_resistance). Fiddling with nature in that regard could result in actually making things worse.
For example super resistant plants could easily destroy ecosystems or replace natural crops by replacing other non-resistant plants.
There might also be super resistent pests as a side-effect... which in turn demand evermore poisenous pesticides to get rid of them.