You Are What You Eat
The timeline where one has come from discussing genetic engineering in agriculture to one’s thoughts of human genetic engineering is based on where it began and changed over generations to what it will become. Currently, there is an issue at hand that must be addressed; Genetically Modified Organisms also known as GMOs are being rendered on the countertops at local food stores. The thought of producing and consuming food products that are genetically modified causes a stir in various cultures all around the globe. Eating in the Dark: America 's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food, written by Kathleen Hart discusses how crops are genetically modified especially in the United States. In addition to the Hart’s readings, …show more content…
Culture being it’s very diverse self, tends to fluctuate among various norms in society. What may seem like the regular cultural norm in an American society can be viewed as the abnormality in other cultures. Testing animals in order to ensure the safety of a potato may be outrageous to some cultures. Pollen writes: “Through trial and error these plants species have found that the best way to do that is induce animals-bees or people, it hardly matters-to spread their genes. How? By playing on the animals ‘desires, conscious and otherwise” (Pollen xv). This sums up the theory of using both humans and animals as subjects of genetic engineering. Always trying to figure out what can be created through a serious of test. Hart notes: “What worried Irish citizens was the fact that none of the genetically modified soya and maize flowing into Ireland from the U.S. corn belt had been put through systematic feeding trials with rats and humans” (Hart 53). The fear of using these subjects with feelings and test subjects is not the ideal norm in Ireland. In other countries, that topic of discussion can be reckoned as an acceptable factor in their every day
The timeline where one has come from discussing genetic engineering in agriculture to one’s thoughts of human genetic engineering is based on where it began and changed over generations to what it will become. Currently, there is an issue at hand that must be addressed; Genetically Modified Organisms also known as GMOs are being rendered on the countertops at local food stores. The thought of producing and consuming food products that are genetically modified causes a stir in various cultures all around the globe. Eating in the Dark: America 's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food, written by Kathleen Hart discusses how crops are genetically modified especially in the United States. In addition to the Hart’s readings, …show more content…
Culture being it’s very diverse self, tends to fluctuate among various norms in society. What may seem like the regular cultural norm in an American society can be viewed as the abnormality in other cultures. Testing animals in order to ensure the safety of a potato may be outrageous to some cultures. Pollen writes: “Through trial and error these plants species have found that the best way to do that is induce animals-bees or people, it hardly matters-to spread their genes. How? By playing on the animals ‘desires, conscious and otherwise” (Pollen xv). This sums up the theory of using both humans and animals as subjects of genetic engineering. Always trying to figure out what can be created through a serious of test. Hart notes: “What worried Irish citizens was the fact that none of the genetically modified soya and maize flowing into Ireland from the U.S. corn belt had been put through systematic feeding trials with rats and humans” (Hart 53). The fear of using these subjects with feelings and test subjects is not the ideal norm in Ireland. In other countries, that topic of discussion can be reckoned as an acceptable factor in their every day