Have you ever thought about how that chicken is able to be produced enough times to feed everyone? How it was able to grow at a fast enough paces to satisfy the demand set by human consumption that is. That is what the article we read ion Biology recently was about. Britain
The "benefit" of course is that breeders can keep up with the demand for chickens, for us the humans, the consumers. On the other hand GM or genetic modification, this has both benefits and concerns. Benefits include enhanced taste and quality for crops, more resistance, higher producing rates, hardiness and better feeding for animals. Benefits also include efficient processing and food security for growing. The concerns of selective breeding are what I stated above, that is harmful to the chickens and unhealthy for them to be in that state. The concerns are human health concerns, like allergens, and unknown effects. Another concern is domination of world food production by only a few companies. Some other concerns include those to do with ethics, labeling and society.
I think that the public should be more concerned with GM. In my opinion GM could be considered animal cruelty. The only reason why these animals, such as chickens have to go through all this is for us and I don't think that is a good enough reason. So we can have chicken to eat and so breeders can make money. Now I may be wrong but the price that these chickens have to pay to help us economically is not worth it. Yeah sure they’re going to die anyways, so it doesn’t matter what happens to them before that? I don't think that is right at all. I don't know if the man who discovered GM and selective breeding in the 1800's, Gregor Mendel, would be happy or upset. Maybe he would be happy that we furthered his experiment and made new discoveries, depends on if he is more concerned with animals or the economic state.
