There have been major technical developments in genetically modified plants. Identify and briefly comment on the ethical, social and/or environmental issues associated with the advances.

... There have been major technical developments in genetically modified plants. Identify and briefly comment on the ethical, social and/or environmental issues associated with the advances. Technology is about how society uses science. The study of technology developments belongs to the social science, and the social sciences insist on the adaptation of a critical attitude to technical developments. Forcing this on ones attention starts with the assertion that technical factors do not determine how the advances of science are used. Social factors shape both the design and implementation of technology developments. The new technologies usually called 'genetic engineering' or 'genetic modification' (GM) promise to revolutionise medicine and agriculture. An optimistic view is that GM plants will make a great, possibly indispensable, contribution to reducing mass hunger. Yet the development of GM crops has recently caused widespread unease around Europe. The unease comes in varying degrees of intensity. It is also based on a

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