Genetics1

             Today people go to the super market thinking they are getting
             good clean healthy products, but instead half of what they are
             buying has undergone genetic therapy. You pick up a beautiful
             looking red tomato and you think it has probably been on the
             vine the longest, but in fact almost all tomatoes found in super
             markets are picked when they are green and then injected with
             red dye to make them appear healthy. The milk you buy has come
             from a cow that has been altered to produce more milk. The
             bigger chicken breasts at the store come from a genetically altered
             chicken to make more breast meat for consumers. This is what
             society has come to, altering animals and natural vegetation for
             consumers. When testing with living creatures where do people
             give room for genetic fail and mishap. Genetic engineering of
             plants and animals should be left to nature to take its toll instead
             of the hands of the irrational scientists.
             Genetically engineered agriculture is not beneficial enough
             to do good in today's society. I must agree with John Keehn a
             freelance writer in New York who quotes "No one really knows
             what effect splicing in...other genes into a plant would have" (74).
             While many of today's " super foods" are on the shelves at every
             grocer, you have to wonder what detrimental side effects lie in
             store for the consumers. The universal consumer must start
             worrying that biotechnology could indeed intensify the worlds
             food state by continuing to leave genetic resources in the hands of
             blind sighted corporations. Today gene splicing in agriculture
             allows scientists to mutate crops to behave or show certain
             characteristics. For example if a certain species of animal is
             facing extinction due to lack of vegetation, then scientists are now
             able to alter plants to begin to show those traits to provide the
             species with a food supply. Now, where does th...

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