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It has been suggested that the benefits of genetic engineering far outweigh the concerns about its use. Discuss the arguments for and against this statement.
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Nick Collinson It has been suggested that the benefits of genetic engineering far outweigh the concerns about its use. Discuss the arguments for and against this statement. The moral issues of genetic engineering have long since haunted its existence. Cries of "they're playing god" have come up against the fact that genetic engineering has the potential, for example, to solve the third world food crisis. Genetic engineering has been going on for thousands of years, in the form of selective breeding. Farmers have been crossing different strains of wheat, and due to this, modern wheat has 3 times as many chromosomes as the ancestral grass from which wheat was developed. So we haven't had any problems so far. But genetic engineering has been developing at a tremendous rate, and has provided many headlines, from GM foods to Dolly the sheep and, more recently, the argument over stem cells. If,...
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