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An 8 page review of the controversy surrounding genetic engineering. The author points out the success and failures of the technology in agriculture and outlines the arguments of the two opposing camps in regard to its use. Bibliography
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The pros and cons of genetic engineering are among the most hotly debated topics of our time. They encompass many ethical, economic, and philosophical considerations (Lampman, 2000).
These considerations includes both positive and negative aspects. The balance between the pros and cons of genetic engineering can perhaps best be illustrated by examining the practice in regard
to the agricultural production of plants and animals that are used to feed the world. While lesser developed countries still depend on agricultural techniques that are little removed from
those of their forefathers, more technologically developed countries are rallying more and more around the wonders of genetic engineering to improve their agricultural output. Agriculturists in the United States
in particular are fascinated by the possibilities presented by the technology. It is also in the United States where genetic engineering has met the most resistance.
Genetic engineering is a new technology. In wasnt until the mid 1970s that scientists discovered a method of copying and transferring genes from one organism
to another. It is a technology, however, which was immediately recognized as having a tremendous potential for the agricultural industry. By 1990 the U.S.D.A. had approved almost one-hundred test
plantings of genetically altered crops (Nash, 1990). It has been a slow process from the field to the supermarket, however. By 1997 only one genetically engineered food crop, the
"Flavr Savr" tomato, had made it to the buying public (The Economist, 1997). Early proponents of genetic engineering were eager to
point out that an animal feed could be made with genetically engineered corn which would contain more oil, a higher protein soybean was possible and plants could be developed which
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