Genetically modified palnts and animals
By nairjula
@nairjula (453)
India
February 25, 2007 5:21am CST
Whats your opinion about genetically modified plants and animals? Is there any ethics involved in it? Don't you think that the whole biodiversity and its characertistics are modified by changing the very genetic nature of a particulare class of plants or animals? Will it be good for future?
1 response
@KeegansMommy (74)
• Canada
26 Feb 07
I have a positive opinion about GMOs. I have a diploma in biotechnology and am in progress of my HBSc in Bio-Molecular Science, so I've studied GMOs quite a bit. I believe they are a good thing. Humans have selected preferable traits through selective breeding since the beginning of agriculture. Now we're just fast-tracking it by inducing mutations and inserting/removing genes. So many genes are homologous anyway, I don't think there is that much of a risk and the benefits are astounding. I do believe, however, that GMOs should have to be marked. Something like 70% of Americas corn plants are genetically modified, and most people don't know that because they don't have to be labeled as such.
