In the 1896 science fiction novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells depicts the island home of an insane doctor, who creates human-like beings from animals. Moreau’s goal was to engineer a human being by only using animals for his experiments and then replicate the process. Which is crazy because then would have totally weird cat videos, oh and animal rights and all that stuff.
At the time the novel was written, gene splicing was considered science fiction. However, for the past twenty-five years scientists have been splicing genes within organism’s species and with other species to create genetically modified organisms, otherwise known as GMOs, which I guess is bestiality if you think about it. Although a breakthrough for the scientific …show more content…
So today we’ll first, look under the microscope for what the common consumer may believe is the truth about GMOs, next we’ll splice in the evidence showing what we think we know about GMO’s is wrong and finally look to how we can MODIFY both our perceptions of the scientific …show more content…
In reality, agricultural scientists have been making foods more productive or resistant to disease since the dawn of agriculture, and the movement really took off in the 1930s with hybrid crops. Gene-splicing technology entered the food industry in 1990 when the Food and Drug Administration approved the safety of a new strain of GMO in dairy products. But later that decade, ethical, environmental and food safety concerns merged with worries about mad-cow disease to produce a backlash against science gone too far, you know like that time with Frankenstein but with pitchforks made out of
At the time the novel was written, gene splicing was considered science fiction. However, for the past twenty-five years scientists have been splicing genes within organism’s species and with other species to create genetically modified organisms, otherwise known as GMOs, which I guess is bestiality if you think about it. Although a breakthrough for the scientific …show more content…
So today we’ll first, look under the microscope for what the common consumer may believe is the truth about GMOs, next we’ll splice in the evidence showing what we think we know about GMO’s is wrong and finally look to how we can MODIFY both our perceptions of the scientific …show more content…
In reality, agricultural scientists have been making foods more productive or resistant to disease since the dawn of agriculture, and the movement really took off in the 1930s with hybrid crops. Gene-splicing technology entered the food industry in 1990 when the Food and Drug Administration approved the safety of a new strain of GMO in dairy products. But later that decade, ethical, environmental and food safety concerns merged with worries about mad-cow disease to produce a backlash against science gone too far, you know like that time with Frankenstein but with pitchforks made out of