I've just been watching Animal Farm on Channel 4 which was exploring genetic engineering in the food industry and was hosted by 1 pro genetics' presenter and 1 pro organic presenter.
During the program the organic guy made a statement which really made me doubt that the guy brew what he was talking about.
He seemed to be arguing that between cloning and transgenics (where you take one animal and put them in other) it was during that was the most worrying science.
???
Surely cloning is just copying a known state. How good the outcome is determined by the orginal animal plus any error's that might be introduced by the cloning process.
Transgenic's however involves deliberately introducing gene's which you could never breed together, and no matter how well you think you understand the process there will always be that element of risk.
The series continues next week dealing with Pharming (where urinals and plant's are altered to produce medicines)
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