Who benefits the most from biotechnology?

Question

who do you think benefits the most from biotechnology and why?


the producers/growers? the consumers? third world countries? military? doctors and medical practitioners? farmers?

Answer 1

Well I would have to say, the consumers, the growers, and ironically enough, the environmentalists.

Consumers benefit from lower prices, bigger, healthier food, and less pesticides.

The growers benefit from greatly enhanced yields and a reduced need for toxic & costly pesticides.

And finally, the enviros benefit in two ways. The mature, intelligent ones benefit because greater yields means less farmland needed to grow the same amount of food, and also fewer pesticides used is better for the environment. Meanwhile, the more ignorant and teeth-gnashing enviros benefit from biotech because they have another cause to protest and another means of whining about how totally evil capitalism is.

Ever read "Liberation Biology" by Ronald Bailey? It's a fantastic book about biotech. It looks at not just crop biotech but also medical biotech like gene therapy & stem cell research. The book is all about both the technologies themselves (and let me tell ya, there's some pretty amazing stuff in the pipeline), and about the moral & ethical implications of it. The book is written for the educated layman; it's not really technical, but has hundreds of footnotes & references included to back up what he says about biotech.

Answer 2

The Master Race!

Answer 3

The company's doing the research.