The milk you put on the corn flakes contains hormones that will increase your risk of developing cancer. For lunch, your strawberries are enriched with fish genes. For supper you will fill up on vegetables that were drowned in enormous amounts of wholesome pesticides. The water you drink is a floating mass of chemicals. Nothing is out of reach from genetic engineering.
Genetic engineering is a revolutionary new technology.
It represents the unknown, the never before trespassed, the mysterious. It ventures across the genetic barriers between humans, animals, and plants, by combining, or 'splicing', the genes of dissimilar and unrelated species permanently altering their genetic codes. Scientists are now cutting, inserting, recombining, editing, and programming genetic material. For the first time, human beings are the architects of life. The prospects are frightening.