Review article
To whom biotechnology will overthrow the holiday lunch?
Marijan Jošt
; Visoko Gospodarsko učilište Križevci
Abstract
Glowing and uncritical reports about the many breakthroughs on the generic frontier, with little effort to examine the more complex risk and dangers are our each-day reality. In agriculture, coming biotechnology age is characterized with rapid growth of multinational biotech corporations. They promised to solve the problem of World hunger, while in fact, thaw are thinking and acting selfishly. The invention of “Terminator technology” is the best illustration of their desire to take a patent on the life. Roundup Ready soy, corn and canola are examples of taking control of the life, without any advantage to human being. Unexpected toxins and allergens have been associated with genetically engineered food. A serious threat of future life is horizontal gene transfer between divergent species, a common technique in genetically engineering. It seems a Mann is trying to write the life poem by hardly spelling the basic letter of genetic code.
Keywords
biotechnology; manipulation; life organism; Croatia, dangerous
Hrčak ID:
181786
URI
Publication date:
6.4.1999.
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