Question

Genetic engineering can be used to create more productive strains of farm animals. By adding genes to an animal’s DNA, the animal can be made to produce milk or meat containing vital nutrients that would not be found naturally in those products. This provides a greater amount of nutrients per serving of milk or meat.

Do you think that this type of genetic engineering should be pursued? Explain your answer.

What are some possible impacts (positive and negative) of this type of genetic engineering on individuals, society, and the environment?
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Positive :
- Society : better/cheaper mean to get the vital nutriment.
- Individuals : Healthier
- Environement : ? Not really affected in any positive way.

Negative :
-Society : ?
- Individuals : DNA manipulation carries a risk (eg, it goes wrong, and the milk end up being poisoned)
-Environement : As everybody use the 'new' cow, the old variety of cow begin to disappear, causing a loss of genetic diversity, which ultimately reduce the species overall survival odds. (Natural selection favors diversity)

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1. It should be, it has been for about 20 years, and it's really not much different in the end than breeding animals to have particular traits. There are always concerns about genetically engineered animals/plants affecting the environment in unexpected negative ways, but I can't think of an example where the fears didn't turn out to be baseless.

2. Yes. First, as you point out, it would be a great advance in pharmacology, to be able to tailor drugs and their doses to me. The pros involve better medical treatment. The cons involve privacy issues like insurance companies denying coverage to people with genetic risk factors. Looking at DNA markers wouldn't affect the frequency of genetic diseases, but it would allow detection of them earlier. And OK, actually I suppose that if people used this information to avoid having children with genetic diseases, some might decrease in frequency.

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Positive impacts would be that this creates an easy way to produce large quantities of certain medicines (e.g. insuline) or vitamins, or other supplements (e.g. calcium) and make them easily available and consumable for patients.

Negative impacts would be that it is not sure if the production of these un-natural compounds is harmful for the animal, or if it would impact quality, taste, or toxicity of the meat/milk.

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