ly correct. Those methods used in earlier times, unlike genetic engineering, did not cross species boundaries to produce their more favourable harvests, it was still nature doing the mixing and some things cannot be crossed in nature that can be with genetic engineering, and that is where the problem is. Scientists do not know what the consequences will be in years to come from crossing species or deleting food elements that they consider undesirable or unimportant which could of been working together with another elementto create a beneficial effect.In the past, we have often ventured into the unknown with our new technologies, only tofind out later that they did have substantial consequences we didn’t anticipate. In human geneticengineering we reduce the human species to a technologically designed product. Genetic engineering is the most powerful tool ever invented to control life. To whom dowe entrust the power to determine which genes should be engineered and recombined in andbetween microbes., plants animals and humans? French researcher, Jean Dausset suggeststhat gene manipulation poses great potential hazzards that could open the door to Nazi-likeatrocities where those in charge decide what constitutes undesirables. If we choose to redesign ourselves by genetic manipulation, we are choosing the idea of perfection over theuniqueness of individuality with all its faults. In return for securing our own physical well-beingwe are forced to accept the idea of reducing the human species to a technologically designedproduct. Genetic engineering poses the most fundamental of questions. Is guaranteeing ourhealth worth trading away our humanity? ...
