Well I'll just give you some examples:
AGAINST:
1 During my stay in Texas I experianced it and here's what I can tell you. The day I walked into my room there was a shiny red apple in the fruit baske on the TV. It looked as if it were polished. Two weeks later that apple still looked as though somebody would come in and polish it every morning. I was sure it's made of wax or something and was used for decoration. It wasn't (I tested it with my pocket knife).
It was mid February and I had fresh strawberies. Sorry to say they tasted like flour wraped in paper with some chalk added. They looked really nice, but the taste wasn't there.
I'm not saying I'm against further testing and improvemants, but the final product should be something better then the original. Just growin fast doesn't mean a lot.
FOR:
People have always modifed things. There were always new breeds of crops, animals... It just wasn't done at such a level. There was no gene spicing in the lab.
SOMETHING TO THINK about:
Would this help fight the world hunger? It hasn't yet! There's more then enough food in the world as it is - it's just not distributed equally. Imagine - people in south-east Asia export huge amoungts of rice - while starving them selves. They are forced to sell rice to foregin countries, that already have too much food, yet they haven't enough. That's something that can't be changed simply by providing more food. Some governments don't care about people, they just want to export - so they do, regarthless of the probles involved.
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