RoboCorn

Genetically altered foods are very scary to me. Sure, it opens up a whole new range of what is possible with food, but there are so many unknown risks and consequences that we have no way of anticipating. Making resistant strains of corn may cause resistant weeds and bugs, just like the use of anti-bacterial soaps leaves the 0.01% of germs stronger. Unfortunately, genetic engineering of food is not only for the more resistant plants. It also is for the profit of the companies that make them. There are companies that take out the ability to reproduce in the plants, so that once the plant has grown and given fruit, it cannot make more fruit, and the farmer has to buy more seeds from the company.
But there are always good things that can come from these "freaks" of nature. perhaps there can be medicine spliced in with an apple, so that children do not have to fuss over taking pills and syrups. Maybe one day there will be a time where we can know the repercussions of is done to the plants before they are released, and that would be ideal, but i do not see this happening any time soon, and without knowing what will happen, good or bad, then i do not think we should be meddling in this area of science.

Alongside Humans

Animals should be treated with more respect because humans rely on them to survive.

“An Animal’s Place” is a very strong piece on the treatment of animals. Pollan argues that animals do have the right to consideration as to how they are treated. Surely we should not treat them as we do fellow humans, but we should treat them as an animal, not an object. The treatment of animals, specifically the animals raised for human consumption, seem to not have the same rights as the animals raised for other purposes. Some may argue that there should be no wasted time nurturing the animals that will be killed sooner rather than later, and yet how can one treat animals so inhumanely? Just because the animal is raised for food shouldn’t mean that they are kept in cages so small that they cannot turn around. There has to be some thought about the quality of life of these animals that are raised so that humans may be nourished. The thought of treating animals as objects is clearly abundant in the video about super cows. Only in a world that needs to fill a quota of how much meat is produced in a certain amount of time would think of selectively breeding these cows so that each muscle on their body is doubled in size. There is no other purpose for these cows than to feed us, and these cows would not exist if not for our meddling.