Why can't man create a synthetic seed for growing the food we need?

Answer 1

Life is so complex - people are just now figuring out how to combine different things together, much less make whole new things out of synthetic. The human body is also much more complex than we know even now. Experimenting with such things may lead to great deficiencies and side effects we could not dream of before they occurr. It is the stuff of science fiction horror stories - the Twilight Zone, Outer Limits etc.

The natural world contains so many things - we will continue to be amazed by how intertwined everything is. examples: ancient Incas had a grain (quinoa) that provided all but one of the 'essential amino acids' we now know humans need. We are also beginning to find out that we need different things at different stages of life in order to be healthy, like taurine for developing eyesight in infants.

Answer 2

It is not such a fantastic idea. The FM crops are one step in this direction. With sucessful creation of animals from DNA obtained from a dead or living animal is another. The duplication of the natural process artificially may take some time but eventually it can and will be done.We will have to keep our fingers crossed because the development of such a technique may lead to manufacture of such artificial seeds as would bring about fundamental chanes in man. The danger will always lurk in the wings.

Answer 3

People are constantly working to grow new strains of plants that are bigger, better, tastier and more disease resistant. In some ways this is a good thing, but sometimes tampering too much with nature yields weird results. Good clean soil and natural fertilizers will do us more good in the long run than laboratory-tweaked freaks.

Answer 4

Because man can't possible create something that has all the
nutrients and vitamins we need to grow. Also, in today's government, it would hurt the farmers lobby.

Answer 5

I'll bet you save plastic bags in order to save artificial Christmas trees.