PHLB02H3 Lecture Notes - Environmental Ethics, Genetic Engineering, Soil Conservation
Document Summary
Immoral and wrong to change nature of something. Drawbacks: gene: transgender plants do not survive that long in the wilderness as the original plants. You might get problems in the insects that naturally feed on these plants. Threaten bio diversity (im not so certain about because we already engage in it and we need bio cultural to feed ourselves). Increased yield. (creates more food from some amount of input). Soil conservation (fix nitrogen from the air instead of from the ground). I think its interesting: new feul choices (design certain bacteria that eat readily available resources and output something that we could use. ) Genetic engineering: one of the problems that gets in the way of providing benefits is the way that genetic engineered products are being patterened. It requires huge investments to genetically modify plants. These companies are patterning the particular versions of seeds they are making and this could be problematic.
