What are your thoughts on Genetic Engineering? good thing or bad thing?

Answer 1

My opinion is that it is messing with things that we don't understand.
Nobody really knows how life works, or how procreation really takes place.
By messing around we are destroying natural evolution, and creating potential situations for the spread of incurable disease.
Any of the pros can be examined, and the question 'Why?' asked.
There is almost always a logical answer.
Why do we need more food? Because the nutrition of present food has been destroyed by the fore-runner of genetic engineering - unnatural farming in order to make more profit.
Almost always there is an answer which ends up with - to make more profit.
Our current society is run on the idea that profit is essential. If we examined all these things down to the root we would see that society is definitely headed in the wrong direction, and genetic engineering is a part of that.
It's of no long term benefit to the human race.

Answer 2

A good thing, beyond any possible question. Actually, mankind has been doing genetic engineering since the beginning of agriculture; the modern techniques accomplish the same ends but with direction rather than random chance. If we stopped using genetically engineered crops, most of the world would starve to death within a year. There is an engineered form of rice called golden rice which alleviates two significant problems wiith the original food: its deficiency in vitamin A and in iron. Use of this instead of white rice would materially improve the nutrition of much of the world's population.

Answer 3

It is a double-edged sword...good for the hardy hybrids in crops that it creates to feed the world, when the food is allowed to be used to distribute to starving people (which has been denied in Afganistan due to the goverment rejecting genetically engineered food items for dontation to its masses) and bad when it comes to geneticially engineers humans as there is a huge legal and ethical debate as to what will be done with the "mistakes", and what could happen when a "good" result morphs into something not expected (good example of this would be to see the movie "Mimic").