Transgenic species and ethical considerations

A variety of transgenic species are flourishing and being sold to us as benefits of mankind, it is changing our food and our natural world. Companies released transgenic species without knowing the long term impact on the environment, which is really dangerous. Although there are benefits, we should be aware of the harm of the transgenic species, this leads me to refute this statement.

So what is transgenic? It is an organism (plant, animal, etc.) is transgenic if some of its genes come from a different species, they could have been inserted into its germplasm, through genetic engineering, or the organism could be the clone, or offspring, of a genetically engineered organism. We can find transgenic species easily, for example, transgenic pigs developed in Adelaide containing human gene to regulate growth and keep meat lean, salmon with an inserted flounder genes to tolerate cold better, cotton containing genes from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) for insect resistance.

The idea that there were factors controlling an organism’s characteristics, and that these factors were inherited in a predictable way, was first discovered by Gregor Mend

The long term impact of transgenic species is what we should care about, it can eventually destroy our natural environment. Firstly, there is the risk of transgene spread, for example, transgenes had spread to traditional maize varieties grown in Mexico, the crops were damaged and contained transgenes. As alien genes disrupt both individual cells and the entire system, anything can happen, it can cause plants and other organisms to reduce their levels of vitamin and other beneficial substances which will be less healthy, and there will be boost existing substances to toxic or allergenic levels, and eventually produce new, unexpected, poison or allergens, which leads to our second problem, for example, a farmworker was harvesting celery for market, that evening, painful red blisters erupt across his forearms, the celery was transgenic and newly developed variety prized for its resistance to disease, which unexpectedly produces a chemical able to trigger severe skin reactions, which is extremely dangerous. Thirdly, scientist fear that the accidental spread of laboratory-inserted genes could give some plants an advantage that would allow them to crowd out other varieties, reducing world’s biological diversity, for example, GE fish could displace other varieties- reducing the gene pool of its species and making it vulnerable to extinction. Fourthly, the insect resistance crops with Bt gene is toxic to certain insects- especially caterpillars and beetles that gnaw on crops, but unexpectedly toxic to the “non-target” organisms, for example, the monarch butterflies can die because of the leaves dusted with Bt corn pollen they had eaten.

So what would be the possible direction of the use and development of transgenic species? So far, the public tends to against the

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