Genetic Engineering

noch son essay...-.- das muss GM food, animal testing, cloning, designer babies und genetic modification beihnalten.
vielleicht sind ja auch fehler drin oder vielleicht habt ihr sonstnoch vorschläge wie man das essay besser schreiben kann.
herzlichen dank :-)
Genetic Engineering

Within a short period of time, genetic engineering has turned into one of the biggest growth areas in scientific research .It appears regularly in the media although the general public have no idea the meaning. It is currently one of the most sensitive areas of ethical debate.

On the approach to the second millennia, ‘cloning’ and the ability to manipulate and modify DNA has increased immensely. The field of genetic reproduction is creating a variety of unknown social and ethical consequences that are particular to our present time.

Cloning can do many good things for our wild life and for our economy. With better plants, cloning could lead to more profit for farmers and we could clone an abundance of trees. This would help the ecological health
of our planet. Cloning is good for out wildlife because with cloning it is easier for us, as a nation and a world, to save many different types of endangered species. Another possibility for cloning would be the creation of new
organs for someone who is in need of a transplant. The organ could be cloned from someone matching the person’s type. This way people would not need to wait for someone to die to find a replacement organ.

There are also some disadvantages of cloning. Cloning of certain crops will increase the yield and quality. However this will also increase the danger of a disease being able to destroy the entire crop. Cloning
destroys the genetic diversity of life. When everything is the same genetically then it is more likely that the entire population will be wiped out by either disease or predator.

It is now also possible to clone a human. Until just a few years ago, making a baby boy or a baby girl was pretty much a hit-or-miss affair. Not anymore. Parents who have access to the latest genetic testing techniques can now predetermine their baby`s sex with great accuracy--as Monique and Scott Collins learned to their delight two years ago, when their long-wished-for daughter Jessica was born after genetic prescreening at a fertility clinic.

And baby Jessica is just the beginning. Within a decade or two, it may be possible to screen kids almost before conception for an enormous range of attributes, such as how tall they`re likely to be, what body type they will have, their hair and eye color, what sorts of illnesses they will be naturally resistant to, and even, conceivably, their IQ and personality type.

However, designing a baby would also violate a person`s individuality and take away a child`s identity. Cloned children would see themselves not as a person, but as an object that their parents could discard because of imperfection. A family is no longer a genuine family.

Children should be valued for who they are, not according to how closely they meet their parents` expectations. If a child were cloned, his life would already have been lived by another human being. Society should not reduce itself to cloning of humans for its own benefit. The course of life should be left up to nature, the way it has been since the beginning of time.