Ingeniería Genética Inglés

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”, “There is neither born nor unborn child, we are all one in Christ Jesus."

Said by Father Gonzalo Miranda at the UNESCO Declaration

Genetic engineering refers to a set of technologies that are being used to change the genetic makeup of cells and move genes across species boundaries to produce novel organisms. The techniques involve highly sophisticated manipulations of genetic material and other biologically important chemicals.

Genetic engineering has become a moral and ethical battlefield, offering powerful arguments both for and against in human rights. The advantages are virtually countless and range in benefit from food production to medicine. Technologies usually involve risks, and sometimes those risks turn out to be unexpected ones.

We are not against genetic engineering, we are here to deny it as a blessing, genetic engineering approaches as a threat to the core of human beings, human dignity. Because technology is a double edged sword, which price could be higher than the benefits coming with it. and because the crave for results and progress could cause great chaos and an unnatural balance.

There are hundreds of arguments to support the dangers of genetics engineer, in order of time and space we decided to select only three.

GMO jeopardizing its own future.

It is believed to a public confronted with television images of the starving in Sudan and elsewhere, the claim that genetically engineered crops will feed growing numbers of people in the Third World has great moral appeal. Its proponents seem highly responsible, even altruistic.

Yet the claim is deeply misleading. It seems plausible only if one overlooks the real causes of malnutrition, hunger, starvation and famine, and erroneously assumes that the hungry must be hungry because there is not enough food.

More than enough food is already being produced to provide everyone in the world with a nutritious and adequate diet-according to the United Nations' World Food Program, one-and-a-half times the amount required. Yet at least one-seventh of the world's people-some 800 million-go hungry. About one-quarter of these are children. They starve because they do not have access to land on which to grow food, or do not have the money to buy food, or do not live in a country with a state welfare system.

According to the well-known objection, the use of genetic engineering in agriculture involves risks that are unjustified from an ethical point of view: genetically modified organisms may cause serious health problems to human population and, moreover, it is uncertain what ecological effects could follow. The point of the argument here is not to say that it is too probable that something undesirable happens. Rather, the claim is that while the probability may be relatively low, the effects of a potential accident would be so catastrophic that there is no justification for such risk-taking.

2.- Playing God and violating human dignity

The Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill in currently under consideration in Britain will likely make it legal to create GM embryos in that country, but only for research—implantation in the womb will still be banned—at least for now. However, ethicists believe that the legislation could easily be relaxed even further in the future.

People who believe that genetically modified humans is something way into the future might want to consider that many

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