Have you ever turned on your television set and what you viewed was a child that looked like a skeleton, nothing but skin and bones? Many third world countries experience food shortages due to misfortunes of nature and/or lack of the latest technology. Are you cognizant of the possibility that the food you have been eating may be genetically engineered? An important aspect of genetically engineered foods (also known as Designer Foods or Franken Foods) is the possible future elimination of shortages of food by increase production."Modern Science has devised revolutionary breeding techniques." Readers (190). In a issue of Nature, the Roslin Institute and the PPL Therapeutic PLC announced the cloning of Dolly, a lamb cloned from DNA of a adult sheep mammary gland cell. (The news media first announced the story on February 22, 1997). (NCGR-GPI). In order to increase meat yields, sheep, cows, pigs and chickens have been genetically engineered. "Plants have been manipulated equally successfully to produce high yielding cereals, fruits and vegetables as well as decorative plants that flower more brilliantly than any in the natural world. (World 190).Genetic engineering is the unnatural manipulation of genes. A set of genes is removed from the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) which is a long string of codes arranged in an orderly sequence that contain instructions for creating all the proteins in the body). of one organism and inserted into the DNA of another organism. This technique is known as recombinant DNA, or gene splicing.Mating is where a chromosome from the female is combined with a chromosome from the male. In mating, chromosomes remain unchanged and stable. In contrast, in genetic engineering genes are extracted out of the DNA of one organism, and inserted into the nucleus of a totally different organism. Regardless of whether it is a plant, an animal, a human being or bacterium, the DNA contains a complete set of inform...
