Question

Genetically modified organisms are not new. According to the USDA, in 2009, 93 percent of soy, 93 percent of cotton and 86 perfect of corn grown in the United States was GMO. However, in 2010, life on earth as we currently understand it, changed. By inserting computer-designed genetic material into a bacterial cell, scientist created an entirely new strain of bacteria, a new life form, the world's first synthetic cell. In annoucing his creation, scientist Craig Venter called if the first life on earth "whose parent was a computer."

1. Do you favor the creation of GMO crops? Defend your answer.

2. Do all GMO products need to be labeled as such?

3. Are we really ready for a life form whose parent is a computer?

4. What precautions would you like to see put in place-perhaps a suicide gene implanted in these new life forms to assure us that they cannot survive outside the lab?

Answer 1

1) GMO crops were made by genetically altering the genes of food crops to enhance production, create drought tolerant, pest resistant plants. The proponents support the production of GMO crops saying that it is required for feeding the growing population of the world. But day by day new pest strains develop being resistant to the new pesticides and all. Also it creates many health issues. When the side effects outnumber the merits, I personally do not support GMO crops.  

2) all GMO crops are designed on computers and then they are produced in labs. There is nothing wrong to label them as computer originated. But it is better to call them hybrid

3) we are giving way to a world of computer generated life. This isn't fair. Life is something unique and if man creates it according to his wish, it's integrity is lost.

4) prevention is better than cure. Hence is adviced to reduce the use of GMO crops and use organic ones to reduce the ill effects on the health of organisms.