I've always found it strange how some issues are pushed to the front in the media (i.e. GM Crops) which often overshadows a number of similar problems which look set to occur in the not to distant future.
In the case of GM crops; The fact is that we have no idea how altering the DNA of a plant will affect its consumers in the long term, there have been wories that such alterations may introduce other properties to the plant which may not become apparent for decades after implementation. I agree with other posters that this technology needs to extensively vetted by an independant authority before it is used commercially.
There are also a host of other issues to consider, water management, soil management, global warming, declining reserves of various raw materials.
Alot of these issues can be directly related to consumer driven economies where materials and resources are greedily consumed by the few at a larger cost to the many.
Sam
In the case of GM crops; The fact is that we have no idea how altering the DNA of a plant will affect its consumers in the long term, there have been wories that such alterations may introduce other properties to the plant which may not become apparent for decades after implementation. I agree with other posters that this technology needs to extensively vetted by an independant authority before it is used commercially.
There are also a host of other issues to consider, water management, soil management, global warming, declining reserves of various raw materials.
Alot of these issues can be directly related to consumer driven economies where materials and resources are greedily consumed by the few at a larger cost to the many.
Sam
"We need not suppose more things to exist than are absolutely neccesary." William of Occam
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure: Act 1, Scene 4)
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure: Act 1, Scene 4)
