Why Is Monsanto Bad
Is Monsanto as bad as it’s made out to be?
The growing science of biotechnology
Biotechnology is allowing genetics to combine with genes from many different species and coming up with innovative versions of old-style foods. Varieties of tomatoes, soya and potato, cucumber and maize have already gone through the blade of biotechnology.
Genetic engineering is when scientists remove a specific gene for a good characteristic, from the DNA of an organism and place it into another organism. Modern bioengineering is ‘transgenic’ which means that scientists are swopping genes among species that would never naturally combine. A good example is found in a strawberry. In cold climates, to stop the strawberry from freezing before it is fully mature, scientists are implanting an “antifreeze” gene that comes from the blood of an Antarctic fish.
http://lifeofplant.blogspot.co.za/2011/03/legumes.html
By scientist’s experimenting across different species, they have produced some amazing things, like organically grown plastics, cancer-preventing proteins, cotton that grows in a variety of colours and tobacco that glows in the dark when being eaten by insects. Because of these results, the scientists have realised that the possibility to create hardier and more sustainable food crops is endless. Scientists are producing …show more content…
Another ethical issue is our ability to contain GM crops in a specific area and there are concerns of, if the crops were to negatively impact the environment, they will spread in an uncontrollable and unstoppable fashion damaging the environment. Cross-Pollination and this would entail GM crops to other crops or plants which can create overzealous weeds, which cannot be contained at all. It is very difficult to access the long term impacts on the health and safety of human beings and the environment, thus the public having fear and concerns eating GM
The growing science of biotechnology
Biotechnology is allowing genetics to combine with genes from many different species and coming up with innovative versions of old-style foods. Varieties of tomatoes, soya and potato, cucumber and maize have already gone through the blade of biotechnology.
Genetic engineering is when scientists remove a specific gene for a good characteristic, from the DNA of an organism and place it into another organism. Modern bioengineering is ‘transgenic’ which means that scientists are swopping genes among species that would never naturally combine. A good example is found in a strawberry. In cold climates, to stop the strawberry from freezing before it is fully mature, scientists are implanting an “antifreeze” gene that comes from the blood of an Antarctic fish.
http://lifeofplant.blogspot.co.za/2011/03/legumes.html
By scientist’s experimenting across different species, they have produced some amazing things, like organically grown plastics, cancer-preventing proteins, cotton that grows in a variety of colours and tobacco that glows in the dark when being eaten by insects. Because of these results, the scientists have realised that the possibility to create hardier and more sustainable food crops is endless. Scientists are producing …show more content…
Another ethical issue is our ability to contain GM crops in a specific area and there are concerns of, if the crops were to negatively impact the environment, they will spread in an uncontrollable and unstoppable fashion damaging the environment. Cross-Pollination and this would entail GM crops to other crops or plants which can create overzealous weeds, which cannot be contained at all. It is very difficult to access the long term impacts on the health and safety of human beings and the environment, thus the public having fear and concerns eating GM