Are you for or against the genetic engineering?

Answer 1

This is a very open ended question; some people would tell you absolutely not, and that its an abomination.

Others, such as myself, believe it is the way of the future.

Its pretty much something you'd need to do reseach into and form your own opinion. There are strong reasons to do it, but there are also risks and moral issues involved.

Answer 2

I'm for genertic engineering.. but I believe that if we are going to alter the genes of things that we're going to eat, we should proceed with caution. I mean, ideally, we all grow our own food in our backyards, or develop some other way of sustainable living. But I think that's unlikely, bordering on impossible, so genetic engineering should be considered seriously. Any source of food or clothing or any other neccessity, nowadays, will have to be mass-produced. Basically because there are lots and lots of people. So if we can develop a way of producing effective, effecient resources at a low cost then that can only be a good thing. Having said that, we're messing with thing that we don't fully understand. It'd be awful to get 100, or 200 years down the track and discover that there's a slow acting, fatal side effect of altering the genetic makeup of our food. Especially since by that time there would be no organically grown food, because the bigger, better and cheaper genetically engineered stuff would've wiped out the organic market. I guess I'm sitting on the fence with this one. I say proceed, but proceed with caution.

Answer 3

Genetic engineering has been going on for centuries. It began about 8,000 years ago. Someone decided to try to combine plants with extremely small seeds and produce plants with larger seeds. Finally after many, many crosses, they created a plant with large kernels and without a hard outer cover. We call that plant wheat. Meanwhile in america, someone started crossing corn like plants. Those plants were only a few inches tall. After years, The seeds of those plants were the corn you eat today. In Cherokee, North Carolina, the Indians refuse to plant White Man's Corn. Instead they plant corn left over from the last year's crop. They have some 40 varieties of corn. Combining those varieties to create those we eat creates our corn. Today, it is possible to go into a crop and actually change a chromosome. There is an insect called a European Corn Borer. It ruins corn crops. Farmers had to spray insecticide on their corn plants to kill it. By splicing a chromosome from a Douglas Fir Tree into the nucleus of a corn plant, the corn plant kills the European Corn Blower Insect. The farmer buys the special seed and does not need to spend money for insecticide. Other features can be put into the nucleus. While scientists are putting natural chromosomes from other plants into the nucleus, a number of people are afraid that the combination of chemicals might have a bad effect in people's food. While little near term danger exist a number of people are afraid of long term dangers. It will be necessary to see what happens to a number of different species of short lived animals.

Answer 4

Since genetic engineering involves the manipulation of genes, genetics is the utmost importance in genetic engineering or any form of genetic technology.