Truth about GMO

I traveled to Europe a few years ago for the first time. I was surprised to see a debate on something I have not thought too much about it. It is Genetically modified plants or GMOs (genetically modified organisms) crops. The newspapers discussed the pros and cons, the government and parliament were in heated debates. Some states were allowed rejection of GMOs in their agricultural systems.

I thought perhaps this public debate had just begun during my travels, but if I go back to the United States, I was shocked to see as virtually no debate or discussion on the pros and cons of GMO crops. In fact, with a little research, I was disturbed to learn that GMO crops were already widely in the United States. Company had with them in America virtually no public debate on the subject.

America 's lack of debate on GM issues was difficult for me a few nights before, as I was with a few friends to eat Indian food. The topic came up when I noticed a rumor I heard about the human DNA in pigs, and another, I would be really read about human DNA is in rice.

My fellow diners got irritated by my negative view of Genetically Altered organisms and their dire possibilities. I was frustrated with them because I felt they were ready, our future is at stake, and the way too much faith in the men in white lab coats.

I said that in the past decades, always less money for the pure Research in our universities from the public funds, and more and more companies from financing sources, the economic interest in a profitable results. She replied: "Well, the financing must come from somewhere."

My concern is that, if our media is supported by the mega-profits resulting from GMOs, our university and research funding provided by the companies that profit from GMOs. . . Then, with a view to the interests of the citizens?

I struggled to find a picture that my sense of bloated human hubris to believe that we could the thousands of millions of years of evolution. I suggested that our generation has been the role of someone at a roulette table in a casino, put everything on the line, and shake the dice say, "I feel happy." My point was that once the life forms in the biosphere, they can not be, and how they play is pure conjecture. My friends, I thought that an old fear, panic fuddy duddy.

They said, why did you always things so negative? Why can it not happen, that these guys come with something good that can help mankind? Why did you choose to see it as dangerous?

Since that night, the issue of GM plants, animals and genes edges, rolled over in my head. I needed a metaphor to explain why I was worried. Last night in my sleep, a metaphor came to me that my position illuminated, so I do the math.

Life on planet Earth began about 4000 million years ago. Humans, Sapien or Homo sapiens appeared about 100000 years. This means that people were on the scene in the development of the Earth of life .000025 percent of the life of the biosphere of our planet. To see, in human terms, given the fact that the average human life expectancy is now 67 years, the people have time on Earth is equal to 50073 second, or 835 minutes, or in other words, we as a species are approximately 14 Human hours old terms.

It has 4000 million years of evolution to create the complex web of life means that thousands of species to interact biosphere, an interconnected network of sophisticated endless links interdependent relations. Small changes can have a major impact. We know that we forward our heads and wonder why the bees dying in huge numbers. According to an article in the German Der Critical Agricultural Report (Critical Agricultural Report), Albert Einstein once said: "" When the bee disappeared from the surface of the world, it would be the man only four years of life left. No more bees, pollination no more, no more plants, no more animals, not people. "

It is as if the biosphere, or web of life on our planet is now in surgery and the nurse wheels in a 14-hour - old infant and placed a scalpel in his pudgy little hand trembling. Newborn child, the struggle for their eyes open and the OP's bright light, and his rebounds in the cold steel scalpel to a nurse forces tremor in her hand as she struggles for the tiny infant pasty fingers around the scalpel, so that the child starts the operation on the body of the Earth Web life.

The shocked patients, everything we know how life looks in horror and disbelief as the nurse pats the patient colorless sweat beads forehead and palliative mutters, "Calm Down, not so negative, he could be there and actually do something good. "

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