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    Is Genetic Engineering An Environmentally and Ethically Sound Technology?

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    The document discusses the debate topic of using genetic engineering to make plants resistant to pests. It argues that this is a bad idea from an environmental and ethical perspective. There are risks that genetically engineered crops could cause unknown allergies, spread disease to microbes, and negatively impact the environment through cross-pollination and disrupting existing ecological balances. While not all effects are yet known, the document claims that genetic engineering of plants poses too many risks and it is not a good idea to use this approach to increase pest resistance.

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    The document discusses the debate topic of using genetic engineering to make plants resistant to pests. It argues that this is a bad idea from an environmental and ethical perspective. There are risks that genetically engineered crops could cause unknown allergies, spread disease to microbes, and negatively impact the environment through cross-pollination and disrupting existing ecological balances. While not all effects are yet known, the document claims that genetic engineering of plants poses too many risks and it is not a good idea to use this approach to increase pest resistance.

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    The document discusses the debate topic of using genetic engineering to make plants resistant to pests. It argues that this is a bad idea from an environmental and ethical perspective. There are risks that genetically engineered crops could cause unknown allergies, spread disease to microbes, and negatively impact the environment through cross-pollination and disrupting existing ecological balances. While not all effects are yet known, the document claims that genetic engineering of plants poses too many risks and it is not a good idea to use this approach to increase pest resistance.

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    Is Genetic Engineering An Environmentally and Ethically Sound Technology?

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    The document discusses the debate topic of using genetic engineering to make plants resistant to pests. It argues that this is a bad idea from an environmental and ethical perspective. There are risks that genetically engineered crops could cause unknown allergies, spread disease to microbes, and negatively impact the environment through cross-pollination and disrupting existing ecological balances. While not all effects are yet known, the document claims that genetic engineering of plants poses too many risks and it is not a good idea to use this approach to increase pest resistance.

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    Hyung Su Han (hxh5123@psu.

    edu)
    Biology 441 sec 01
    Makeup Debate GM crops
    Is genetic engineering an environmentally and ethically sound technology?

    We know that many deaths and diseases are associated with exposure to pesticides. We
    can now modify plants genetically to be resistant to certain pests with a potential to
    decrease the use of chemicals on those plants. Is this a good idea?

    TOPIC to be debated: Using genetic engineering for resistance to pests


    Genetically modifying the plant to resist pests and ultimately to decrease the use of
    chemicals is a bad idea also in terms of the environment and the ethicality. There are many
    negative aspects that are going on about genetic engineering for plants but not a lot are
    conclusive yet. However some of the issues that are being mentioned about genetic
    engineering on the environment and ethicality is that it cares too many risks. One of the risk
    is that people might be getting allergies unknown. Getting a gene from an allergenic organism
    and putting it in another causes chaos to those with the allergy. From the people who eat the
    GM crops, might get a new type of disease from the gene placed in the plant passing to the
    microbes. As for the environment, we do not know what the effects of GM crops would do to
    the environment being a potential threat. Also if the GM crops have bad effects on the
    environment; crosspollination and spreading cannot be maintained causing a serious problem.
    Lastly GM crops have the potential to break down a food web which was already in balance
    causing a chain reaction. Based on all these negative aspects of genetic engineering for plants
    on the environment and ethicality it would not be a good idea to genetically engineer plants
    for resistance to pests.
    Reference
    1. P. M. Bennett1*, C. T. Livesey2, D. Nathwani3, D. S. Reeves4, J. R. Saunders5 and
    R. Wise6. "Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy." An Assessment of the Risks
    Associated with the Use of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Genetically Modified
    Plants: Report of the Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial
    Chemotherapy. JAC, 28 Jan. 2008. Web. 25 Apr. 2016.
    <http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/3/418.full#ref-list-1>.
    2. Ian Murnaghan BSc. "Ethical Concerns and GM Foods." Ethical Concerns and GM
    Foods. Genetically Modified Foods, 15 Mar. 2016. Web. 23 Apr. 2016.
    <http://www.geneticallymodifiedfoods.co.uk/ethical-concerns-gm-foods.html>.

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