"We improve our favourite plants and animals "and how few they are "gradually by selective breeding; now a new and better peach, now a seedless grape, now a sweeter and larger flower, now a more convenient breed of cattle. We improve them gradually, because our ideals are vague and tentative and our knowledge is very limited; because Nature, too, is shy and slow in our clumsy hands- (26). H.G. Wells wrote those words in his novel The Time Machine in 1895; he recognized man's ability to alter other organisms; however, at that time it was a gradual, slow, and clumsy process. To...
Genetically Modified Organisms Barnett, A. (2000, August 13). Soya alert over cancer and brain damage link; Special report: what's wrong with our food? The Observer. Retrieved August 16, 2003, from http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,353660,00.html In my research I came across this article that discusses the dangers of a product called Soya, where concerns were raised about the health risk of breast cancer in woman, and the risk of abnormalities in infants for whom Soya milk is used as infant formula. Two senior American government scientists made this part...