Truth about GMO

What a world! The wording of the 21st Century is already a yawn, perhaps because all the hype has dulled our senses. Yet at the same time we feel bewildered and bamboozled by the sheer speed, extent and impact of scientific and social change. With all this progress, we are progressing on the moral abyss?

How can we succeed, they all make sense or where it us? Will we be able to keep our balance - or even back to our warehouse? Maybe we sometimes yearn for a kind of personal compass - something safer, more accurate and reliable, that we can rely on a sea of changing ethics and moral values in society.

In especially accelerating pace of scientific progress is the creation of moral dilemmas in society where potentially huge and far-reaching ethical decisions are needed to guard against the blur of warp speed. We are forced, on topics that previous generations neither designed nor imagine.

Take could, for example the recent news that the DNA of a Danish woman - from a blood sample she gave in the 1980s - was in thousands of New Zealand sheep, without her Knowledge of the same company, the British GM Dolly. The company intends, she says to extract a protein from genetically modified sheep milk this - a protein that it claims could help cure diseases like cystic fibrosis.

Then there's still in the recent news of an American couple who used advanced technology for fertility Select a fertilized egg to a boy. Not any boy, but that was genetically ideal for a bone marrow donor for his older sister, who otherwise die.

The deep moral and ethical considerations in situations such as these are in accordance with the immense biological and medical implications. With the fast-accelerating pace and scope of such efforts to cure disease and extend life - and it must be said to increase profits - the special ethical paradox of eugenics educates his head (or should we say, heads?).

How treat, for example, the highly concentrated increasingly moral dilemma of whether to abort fetuses that we know, disabled children or may not have the desired qualities - such as the "real" sex, or potential intelligence? How do we deal with the fact that experiments on human embryos for science and medicine, in order of eugenics? Or that cloned embryos are vital for the human spare parts industry?

This ethical dilemma by Western society is the moral ambivalence and the elimination of traditional and spiritual values. Never before have we so sorely needed a solid moral and spiritual basis with which to make sense of the pace and direction of science. But the Western culture - especially our political, religious and commercial leadership - is as a whole, totally incapable of providing such direction or guidance.

We us groping in a foreign, rapidly changing spiritual nature, try to pin down these difficult tangible question of ethics, figuratively nor discuss the way forward. At a time of immense scientific and medical progress, it is ironic that we are perhaps less morally equipped as a society to deal with the problems than ever before in our recent history.

British philosopher Anthony O'Hear, professor of philosophy at the Bradford University and director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, believes that - despite progress in science and democratic politics in the last three centuries - that our moral losses far outweigh our gains.

It is ironic that a company amoral -- Bent on nothing more than the increased physical perpetuation of life, the pursuit of happiness and the elimination of pain - is actually moving towards the ultimate cheapening of human life through scientific progress, untrammeled by moral restraints.

As never before, mankind needs an urgent moral compass, guidance and direction through the turbulent sea of social issues and moral values in society. More to the point, each man wishes, the orientation to make sense of a world increasingly dominated by confusing scientific advances largely unhindered by moral considerations. In Vision - Journal for a New World, we try to show that there is a better way to the future - if we are indeed prepared to accept our need for a moral compass in an increasingly turbulent and confused world.

Author, David Lloyd, contributes articles on religion and society for Vision Media. More information about these and other religion and society topics can be found at http://www.vision.org

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