What Is Bad About Production of GMOs?

Artificial Intelligence

Current Usage

There are many applications of artificial intelligence at present. Some of them have been listed here.

Banks and other financial institutions rely on intelligent software, which provide accurate analysis of the data and helps make predictions based upon that data.

Stocks and commodities are being traded without any human interference - all thanks to the intelligent systems.

Artificial intelligence is used for weather forecasting.

It is used by airlines to keep a check on its system.

Robotics is the greatest success story, in the field of artificial intelligence. Spacecrafts are sent by NASA and other space organizations into space, which are completely manned by robots. Even some manufacturing processes are now being completely undertaken by robots. Robots are being used in industrial processes, that are dangerous to human beings, such as in nuclear power plants.

Usage of artificial intelligence is quite evident in various speech recognition systems, such as IBM ViaVoice software and Windows Vista.

Future

It is expected that the robots in future, will take on everybody's work. Whether it is office work or the work at home, robots will accomplish it even more faster and efficiently than human beings. So if somebody's falling ill, they can obtain a robot nurse who will give periodic medicines to them. How much care, concern and empathy the robot nurse will have towards the patient is anybody's guess!

Thus, artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, and artificial intelligence's future depends upon the capability of the scientists to crack the puzzle of the human mind. Will they be able to solve "the problem of the mind" and incorporate all the human, mental, emotional qualities in the machines? Let's wait and watch!

What Is Bad About Production of GMOs?

GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, are plants, animals and microorganisms altered by scientists. GMOs are a mix of different species that do not occur naturally but exist by means of genetic engineering. The modifications are done to create supernatural genes that are unlike natural organisms, and they originally were created to provide a better, more efficient crop. However, there are various reasons that their production is considered bad.

Genetic Pollution: Once GMOs are released into an environment, it is almost impossible to retract the species. Consider a genetically modified seed. If it interbreeds with a non-genetically modified seed, there is no telling what the outcome can be, as the future of crop growth cannot be determined with certainty.

Mutations: A mutation occurs when GMOs come into contact with non-GMOs--the genetic makeup of the two create a new species. Scientists have not yet figured out the end result of such an occurrence. The effects can affect environmental and human health. According to Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology (PSRAST), these new genes potentially can enter into human genes and the environment, creating irreversible damage.

Labeling Since 2004, labeling has been mandatory across the European Union, due in large part to European environmentalists who clamored for labeling of products with GMOs in supermarkets. However, labeling in many countries across the world is not mandatory, such as in the United States. According to The Center for Food Safety, about 70 percent of processed foods found in U.S. supermarkets contain genetically modified ingredients.

Allergens: A concern of GMO production is the incidence of new allergies, especially with no labeling of GMO foods. Methods are available to test for allergies of non-GMO foods; however, with the introduction of a new mixture of genes, there are no reliable modes of testing for allergies. According to ActionBioscience.org, it is impossible to distinguish if a genetically modified crop is an allergen before it is released into the food chain, having potentially detrimental effects to the whole food cycle.

Considerations: GMO farming does not recognize the values of traditional farming. While consumers rely on local agriculture for food in the developing world, small farms cannot compete with large farm production that use genetically modified crops. Traditional farming practices have existed for thousands of years of tried-and-tested methods, whereas GMO farming has not.

Cloning

Cloning is considered the great medical breakthrough of our age. As the definition says clones are copies of another human's look or what he/she likes to eat, but a person's whole personality is based on the experiences in his/her life and there is no method of cloning that can replace the personality. There are also medical disadvantages in human cloning, which make the benefits less effective. It was first thought that stem cells could only be harvested from embryos, but today's researchers are finding that any human cell can be manipulated to replace any tissue of the body. Health risks from mutation of genes - an abnormal baby would be a nightmare come true. The technique is extremely risky right now. A particular worry is the possibility that the genetic material used from the adult will continue to age so that the genes in a newborn baby clone could be - say - 30 years old or more on the day of birth. Many attempts at animal cloning produced disfigured monsters with severe abnormalities. So that would mean creating cloned embryos, implanting them and destroying (presumably) those that look imperfect as they grow in the womb.

Cloning has always been a subject whose thoughts both fascinates and frightens the world. On February 27, 1997, a stunning announcement appeared in the British journal Nature that rocked the scientific world: for the first time ever recorded, a mammal- a lamb named Dolly had been successfully cloned from an adult cell. Coinciding with this shocking proclamation, scientist reported the successful cloning of a rhesus monkey, a primate whose reproduction and development is almost identical to man.

Much current attention is now focused on altering the genes of cows or sheep so that they will produce large amounts of pharmaceutically important proteins in their milk, such as insulin or factor VIII to treat hemophilia. Indeed, it is this application which generated the Wilmut study-the desire to make a transgenic sheep that would include human insulin in its milk, thus providing an efficient source of that substance. There is also interest in producing pigs whose genes have been altered to produce a component of the human immune system's regulatory proteins. This would make pig organs more suitable for human transplantation.

One of the manor Disadvantages of cloning is that there is a continuous debate relating to the ethical issue of cloning. The concept of cloning is hurting a lot of human sentiments ans human believes. There is a lot of controversy regarding whether cloning is ethical or not. at the present time the controversy is storming the world and took a great shape. The whole world seems ti get divided in the issues relating to cloning. The Christianity as well as Judaism do not support the destruction

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