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A 2 page paper discussing the true meaning of "genetic engineering" as it applies to food. Genetic engineering is more threatening in its name than in its purpose. It is the precise and predictable altering of plants to achieve specific characteristics, the same goal of plant breeding for specific traits. Environmentalist groups complain of the possibilities inherent in genetic engineering, but they often fail to understand the true goals of the practice. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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truly care about the causes for which they stand. If they would also ensure that they firmly base themselves in facts rather than sensationalism, then they could truly perform
valuable service for all mankind and the future of the environment of the entire world. Actor Ted Danson was passionate in his claims in the 1980s that the ocean
would be "dead" in seven years; both he and those feeding him information were completely uneducated in the mechanisms by which bodies of water can take care of themselves.
The same type of controversy surrounds genetic engineering of food plants. Technically, the term "genetic engineering" also can apply to those animals commonly
used for food, but such usage of the term normally is limited to plant applications, as it will be here. Genetic engineering is
the splicing of genes for the purpose of arriving at plants that can produce desired characteristics. Though environmentalists decry the practice on grounds ranging from ethics to the possibility
of allergic reaction, those most vocally opposed to the practice fail to understand that the genetic engineering of today is in most cases merely a shortened route formerly navigable only
through plant breeding through many generations of plants. One says, "that organic potato or ear of corn you so lovingly nurtured from seed to your dinner table ... may
carry within it the capacity to irrevocably alter your health" (St. Michael, 1998; p. genfood). He makes his statement without a shred of consideration that the original potato and
the original maize from which our present-day corn was bred over many generations were plant forms that today we would likely label as being inedible.
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