Satyajit (Jit) Patil In Daryl Cagle’s ‘The Cagle Post’‚ freelance writer and humor columnist Tom Purcell express his opinion on the principles and morality of genetically engineering children through his article “Genetically Engineered Children”. The article presents a conversation between two parents‚ who are assumably about to have a child‚ and a doctor. Due to breakthroughs in the field of biotechnology‚ the parents have the capability to decide the mental and physical aspects of their child
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Summary of three articles A. GMO FACTS What are GMOs? - Genetically modified organisms are living organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering‚ or GE. - This relatively new science creates unstable combinations of plant‚ animal‚ bacteria and viral genes that do not occur in nature or through traditional crossbreeding methods. - To withstand direct application of herbicide and/or to produce an insecticide. - GMO is accompanied by
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Genetically-modified foods (GM foods) have made a big splash in the news lately. Euro- pean environmental organizations and public interest groups have been actively protest- ing against GM foods for months‚ and recent controversial studies about the effects of genetically-modified corn pollen on monarch butterfly caterpillars1‚2 have brought the issue of genetic engineering to the forefront of the public consciousness in the U.S. In response to the up swelling of public concern‚ the U.S. Food and
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Destrie Allen Judy Nicholas English Comp. 2 Section 18 23 April 2012 Social Media… Beneficial or Harmful? If I asked students in class to raise their hands if they have a Twitter‚ Facebook‚ or any other social network site‚ I could assume every hand would be in the air. I wrote this as an example on how society‚ especially my generation‚ has become drastically dependent on technology. We crave new information‚ which many seek through technology. However‚ face to face interaction is just as important
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GMO IN Food and Agriculture Genetically Modified foods are produced using genetically engineering techniques. These techniques are used to ‘inactivate’ or add specific DNA traits of a certain organism to the other in order to improve it. These traits consist of increasing resistance against herbicides and pest‚ cold‚ and drought tolerance. In 1946‚ scientist discovered that DNA of organisms could be transferred between each other. The first plant that was GM was a tobacco plant in 1983. By 1994-95
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INTRODUCTION Genetically modified foods (GM foods or biotech foods) are foods made from genetically modified organisms (GMOs)‚ specifically‚ genetically modified crops. GMOs have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering techniques. These techniques are much more precise than mutagenesis (mutation breeding) where an organism is exposed to radiation or chemicals to create a non-specific but stable change. Other techniques by which humans modify food organisms include selective
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Harmful Threats to the Human Body There are a lot of bacteria that are good for human bodies‚ but there are also a lot of bacteria that’s very harmful to the human body. Bad bacteria can affect people from swimming in lakes and ponds. “Many of the world’s best-known disease outbreaks have been transmitted by water-borne bacterium.” Lakes and ponds are just un-treated drinking water. They have a lot of microorganisms in it that you cannot see. There are many ways to be contaminated by bacteria;
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Zackery White ` Food Inc. 1. Incorporation (Inc.) means to form a legal association of individuals‚ created by law or under the authority of law‚ with a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members‚ and with powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. Therefore‚ Food Inc. implies that food system of the modern day has become more of a combination of monopolized businesses‚ whom only care about their profits‚ rather than the farmers from the obsolete
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The food industry and how food is processed has changed dramatically over the past fifty plus years. The food industry is longer run by farmers. It is now operated more like an industry in a factory setting. Foods like chicken and beef are now produced in massive quantities from enormous assembly lines. The popularity of fast food brought the factory system into the food processing industry. McDonalds was the first restaurant to incorporate this system. Due to the demand for more food‚ the demand
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testing is known to everyone because it has been around for a while now. To begin‚ animal testing has been around for a long time now it’s been a good‚ and bad thing to others own opinions. In this situation animal testing can been a cruel‚ but a helpful thing for others (AnimalTesting). Next‚ animal testing causes discomfort to the animals involved. To demonstrate‚ this is really painful for the animals to deal with (AnimalTesting). Naturally‚ some tests done on the animals are causing them to suffer
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