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Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Genetically Modified Organisms and Food.
Nature thrives on diversity, creating a market environment where patents are made on genetic profiles and creating restrictions on the legality of what seeds are allowed to be sold by smaller, competitively weaker agricultural companies means that the natural diversity existent within plants derived from a source of diverse variety, even if selectively bred, and the adaptability, the provisions to sympathise with a changing environment will be stunted. Assuming a fully fertile genetically modified crop is designed, a cloned genetic profile repeated millions of times removes any hope of genetic variants that allow for adaptability and evolution. Another issue is the design of the genetic profiles allow for human error to exist within a system (either pure natural or selective breeding) that would usually have subtle safety nets existent in it in the form of recessive and dormant genes that might surface in a disaster such as disease that is particularly suited to a specific genetic profile for instance. Now what is the flaw that is most likely to produce human error? I'll tell you, it is the desire for self-gain, whether that be glory or the desire to defeat an opponent (as is the case with Richard Dawkins and his fans, it appears), or, as in the capitalist system, self gain usually equates to monetary profit, and due to that desire, Monsanto, the leading innovators and monopolistic power-house in genetic modification, design their plants in such a way that they are infertile, meaning farmers are forced to purchase seeds every single year rather than procure a new crop from the offspring of their current crop. This is ethically immoral because it means farmers and agriculture in general will be left completely dependent on the whims of Monsanto. Meaning Monsanto has complete power to dictate whatever they desire over the customers dependent on them, even very very poor customers such as the vulnerable and insecure farmers of third world countries. Now, I know you require sources, it is an American fallacy to assume that normal conversation and empirical information requires citation, but I am not writing a journal article, I do not need to fortify my position with validation of my character, facts support themselves, and as fans of science you yourselves should know that. This issue is not about whether a solution can be identified within the technology of genetic modification but the current corruption existent within the use of that technology, it is not an issue of biology or even ecology but unethical behaviour within the agricultural market that can and is resulting in an extremely detrimental impact on the ecological and market environments.That is the problem with human error, everyone is blind-sighted by a narrow vision focusing only on proving one statement without regard of the negative impacts that might result from the mis-use of that information.
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