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Modern life under influence of GM-Food: Advantages/Disadvantages - playing God?

Apr 11, 2009 by | Posted in Medicine

Question: Hi
What do you think about the topic: Modern life under influence of science and technology. How GM-food or cloning change our lives? It is just playin god? Is eating a cloned animal eating a science experiment? What do you think about risks? Could it be solve the poverty

Answer: Human beings have selectively bred animals and plants for thousands of years. We've even cross-bred different species (e.g., mules). How is that not playing God? The only difference now is that we can select traits with far greater precision.

Eating a cloned animal

grimmyTea | Apr 11, 2009

Human beings have selectively bred animals and plants for thousands of years. We've even cross-bred different species (e.g., mules). How is that not playing God? The only difference now is that we can select traits with far greater precision.

Eating a cloned animal
grimmyTea | Apr 11, 2009



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Genetic modification of food plants has great potential, if used in conjunction with other farming techniques

FEW subjects are as polarising as the genetic modification of food. Opponents of GM bandy about words like "unnatural", "invasion" and "contamination", decrying it as a technology forced upon the world by greedy corporations.

Its backers, in turn, slam such critics as "ignorant" and "irrational", holding back the development of technologies that will be needed to feed the world's expanding population.

This war of words does little to illuminate the real value - or otherwise - of GM crops. Like any technology, GM has its advantages and its problems. But a review of the available evidence (see " Hidden green benefits of genetically modified crops ") suggests that it has brought a host of benefits that have received relatively little attention compared with scarier, but generally less convincing, claims about its risks.

Source: New Scientist

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