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A 4 page consideration of the promise of genetic engineering. This paper describes the potential benefits of the technology in improving the production, nutrition, and marketability of four common food crops, corn, wheat,tomatoes, and avocados. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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food crops. Most of the species that we depend on for food have already been altered significantly from their wild forms through the process of selective breeding. As
our population continues to swell, however, there is a greater and greater need for more efficiently produced food species that retain or improve upon existing nutritional values. Even the
mainstays of our food crops, species such as corn, tomatoes, wheat, and avocados, could stand significant improvement on a genetic level. In fact, while this doesnt mean that there
is no room for additional improvement, most of these species have already been worked on at a genetic level. Genetic engineering is not
a new technology. In wasnt until the mid 1970s, however, that scientists discovered a method of copying and transferring genes from one organism to another (Cone, 1991). 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 produced their own internal
pesticide (Benson, Arax, and Burstein, 1997). These developments promised higher yields, shorter growing times and less need to apply harmful pesticides (Benson, Arax, and Burstein, 1997). While genetic
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