Controversy has arisen about using genetically engineered bovine growth hormone to increase milk in cattle.?

Question

This points out that:
a. recombinant DNA technology is inherently a bad idea and should be abandoned
b. humans are not wise enough to use this technique properly
c. society shouyld let scientists decide the proper uses of recombinant DNA technology.
d. society as a whole should decide the proper uses of recombinant DNA technology.
e. Citizens should not be allowed to decide such issue sence they tend to make decisions based on emotion.

Answer 1

I would go with E - but is this homework for you? Honestly, poorly written question/answers.

People get nervous (and to some degree rightly so) when it comes to mucking around with our food. In some ways, the fear of recombinant technology (specifically, usually GMOs) is Monsanto's (and other companies) fault. They started off promoting such things as rBGH, plants that make their own pesticides, all that - profit generators. If only they'd started off with the vit.A rice, society would have a much different perspecitve on these things. But because Joe Public does not understand squat about how the hormone works, he thinks oh-my-god, it'll affect me if I drink the milk! I don't want no hormones in my milk! He then hears the scaaaary details everyone seems to post on the internet, and gets even more leary. He hears the scientists (and imagines them looking freakish in their lab coats, all dictator-like) saying there's nothing harmful in there, your cells don't recognize that hormone and here's exactly what it does change in the milk and why it's not a problem, and Joe doesn't believe them (no offense meant to anyone who happens to be named Joe Public, by the way). Suddenly, Joe and all the others are fighting against something relatively harmless (okay, the cows may disagree, but how stressful can producing extra milk be, if you're given the food to do so? This is coming from someone on month 16 of breastfeeding, by the way. Moo.)

Anyway, I'm rambling. E. Definitely E. Moooooo.

Answer 2

BGH has been used to bulk up beef cattle for lots & lots of years. Enough time has gone by that people have kind of forgotten all about it and go about their business buying and eating beef grown faster with BGH.

Then, along comes the BGH treatment to increase milk production. At first, there is a big uproar and milk in the store must be labeled. After a while we forget about that issue too.

And, yes, Monsanto is making tons of money. On the other hand, the US has the cheapest food supply in the world and part of that is because of just such techniques for increasing food production.

One other thing: the world population is soon going to outgrow the available food supply so either we have to keep doing whatever possible to keep feeding people OR we have to do something to stop the exploding population growth.

Answer 3

This hormone was developed by Monsanto. The only purpose for this is money. A farm cannot make a profit from milk with only a few cows. But, with many, like 50+ producing milk, then you have mass production. This equals good profit. Introduce a drug to produce even more milk just equals even more profit. Just like corn, which Monsanto almost has the world market on as well.
Since this is all money driven, this scares people(consumers) into wondering whether testing was really complete or bought off. I'm sure R&D costs for Monsanto is not cheap. So the CEO is not patient to get this to profit status.
Just let nature handle the natural state of food. Cows and plants have no problem suppling the world.

Answer 4

this is honestly impossible to soak up advance hormone by mouth. Like i've got stated till now: HGH is composed of 191 amino acids caught at the same time and this is impossible to soak up this if taken orally - it basically gets digested. If it have been feasible to soak up HGH orally, then human beings does no longer would desire to inject insulin anymore because of the fact insulin is composed of fifty one amino acids - even too great to be absorbed finished. no count if or no longer they use this interior the farm animals industry, would not have any result on the upward thrust of people eating it. same subject with BGH

Answer 5

The drug is actually illegal outside the US with most US suppliers not using it anyway.