GM Foods

• It’s a complex problem

• Genes are inserted into a plant to change its characteristics
• We should make informed choices
• Technology is messing with nature

+ increase food production - health risks

+ possibility of producing food crops - long-term health effects are unknown
even in unfavourable - lack of testing and regulation
climatic conditions - developing countries will depend more
+ lower production cost on industrial countries for GM seeds
+ better taste and chemicals
+ last longer - possible instability of the inserted gene
+ better quality food (foods higher in vitamins - cause allergies and diseases resistant to
and minerals) antibiotics
+ higher nutritional value
+ less chemicals
+ more resistant to pests, weeds and climate
changes
+cheaper and more plentiful of food

Cloning

• It’s the process of using the cells of one living subject, plant or animal to create another
duplicate subject
• It has become the centre of a huge debate; it’s a controversial issue
• The disadvantages are seen to far outweigh any benefits that might be seen
• Genes are inserted into a plant to change its characteristics
• We should make informed choices
• Technology is messing with nature

+ enables organ replacement - it’s morally wrong to manipulate nature

+ it helps infertile couple to have children (unnatural)
+ it can create identical copies of animals with - unknown physical damage
the best animal population - it is based on a great degree of
+ it can repopulate the world with endangered uncertainty (unknown social, mental
or extinct species and medical consequences)
+ It can cure and prevent hereditary and - it can create new diseases with cell
degenerative diseases (Alzheimer) mutation
+ it can improve biomedical research by - legal conflicts within family and social
learning more about cells relations
- organs can be rejected
- early death or premature aging
- loss of gene diversity
- ethical considerations, religious
objections – “playing God”
- cloning technology could be abused