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7th Grade BIO LEZ GO.
So today I was watching some video on genetic engineering/selection stuff and it talked about how it's a controversial thing that "Should this be used or not?"
Today I will focus on the changing of the code of life for our 'benefits'. But are they truly beneficial?
Let's start at food, GMO foods are foods that's DNA has been changed to be more e.g. resistant to the cold (tomatoes with an arctic anti-freeze gene), much larger, and less diverse. The manipulation of this is what is causing all the buzz, and the fact that we don't even label these things is another point to the argument of GMO foods.
While yes, you can grow more things and have enough food, we already have enough. 1.5 times more that enough. And while it prevents famine, the money going to GMO foods could be going to those "3rd world" countries. People also think that this GMO stuff could harm us, even though that plenty of scientists have proven that it's fine. Still, many people think it's, inhuman.
Now comes the medicine. Insulin, stuff that helps your liver store sugar so you don't go into a sugar colma (it's diabetic colma BTW your brain shuts down) can be made. It's made from splicing DNA and inserting it back with the use of bacteria. Again, here's where the protests come, saying that it could have some consequences and stuff like that. But again, here, people say it's inhuman.
And here's where stuff gets iffy. And where scientists take off their glasses and say, well then. Choosing your DNA. Not yours necessarily, but choosing your kids DNA. Making a "perfect child" seems desirable, right? Perhaps not…
Scientists believe it's too hard to just switch everything out, and because our genome is so complex, it will have mistakes, mistakes that are unavoidable.
But it's not just that. In the book The Giver there is a prominence of a utopian society. One that, and even mentioned in the book, has geneticists hard at work, eliminating things like choice, (color stuff), emotions, stuff that seems crazy and outlandish. But how outlandish is this? How close are we to this type of society, and will we go in mindlessly, or will we stop and think.
Have we gone too far?
So today I was watching some video on genetic engineering/selection stuff and it talked about how it's a controversial thing that "Should this be used or not?"
Today I will focus on the changing of the code of life for our 'benefits'. But are they truly beneficial?
Let's start at food, GMO foods are foods that's DNA has been changed to be more e.g. resistant to the cold (tomatoes with an arctic anti-freeze gene), much larger, and less diverse. The manipulation of this is what is causing all the buzz, and the fact that we don't even label these things is another point to the argument of GMO foods.
While yes, you can grow more things and have enough food, we already have enough. 1.5 times more that enough. And while it prevents famine, the money going to GMO foods could be going to those "3rd world" countries. People also think that this GMO stuff could harm us, even though that plenty of scientists have proven that it's fine. Still, many people think it's, inhuman.
Now comes the medicine. Insulin, stuff that helps your liver store sugar so you don't go into a sugar colma (it's diabetic colma BTW your brain shuts down) can be made. It's made from splicing DNA and inserting it back with the use of bacteria. Again, here's where the protests come, saying that it could have some consequences and stuff like that. But again, here, people say it's inhuman.
And here's where stuff gets iffy. And where scientists take off their glasses and say, well then. Choosing your DNA. Not yours necessarily, but choosing your kids DNA. Making a "perfect child" seems desirable, right? Perhaps not…
Scientists believe it's too hard to just switch everything out, and because our genome is so complex, it will have mistakes, mistakes that are unavoidable.
But it's not just that. In the book The Giver there is a prominence of a utopian society. One that, and even mentioned in the book, has geneticists hard at work, eliminating things like choice, (color stuff), emotions, stuff that seems crazy and outlandish. But how outlandish is this? How close are we to this type of society, and will we go in mindlessly, or will we stop and think.
Have we gone too far?
