Transgenesis is a new technology where the DNA of an organism is transformed to produce a new property and transmit that property to its offspring. The overall genetic pool of the type of organisms are nearly the same, but a new gene is placed into an embryo prior to birth. This new technology is to produce organisms with benefits for humans. When this is inserted into the embryo successfully, all of the tissues and cells of the new modified organism will contain the foreign gene, even their germ cells, so these organisms will be able to pass these wanted genes to the possible offspring. By inserting these new genes, many issues such as health care can be addressed. Animals will be able to test very dangerous diseases, giving researchers a good chance to try find and develop cures, produce human organs for people who need them and make cost-effective pharmaceuticals.
The ‘golden rice’, a GM rice engineered to produce pro-Vitamin A is being offered to Third World countries as a cure for widespread vitamin A deficiency. (ref)
It has been designed to contain genes necessary to make up the biochemical pathway for beta-carotene production in the grain, this was discovered by many years of research by Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer in Switzerland and Germany. Although of all this research of golden rice according ISIS-TWN sustainable science, golden rice is a useless application. Up to a total of “70 patents have been filed on the GM genes and constructs used in making the golden rice.” They believe that it’s a drain on public resources and is a major interference to the application of agriculture that can give proper solutions to the issue of world hunger and malnutrition.
Golden rice according to ISIS-TWN sustainable science carries some of the worst features for hazards to health and biodiversity. This is a social implication as it can affect the communities of many third world countries that are using Golden Rice
(e.g Asia, Africa). Although it