### social profession | engineering:

Genetic engineering
* Much genetic engineering is aimed at getting farm animals to grow bigger and more rapidly.
* allows early detection and treatment of disease in food crops and animals
  - for the creation of human capabilities and alterations of individuals
  - scientists to find the genes which produce antigens
* are biotechnology.
* breathes all new life to the idea of the ultimate society.
* brings an unprecedented level of corporate control over nature.
* by-product of the relatively young science of genetics.
* can also introduce known and unknown allergens into common foods
  - toxins unintentionally
  - apply to any kind of living organism from microorganisms to humans
  - have large impact on the toxins, allergens and nutrients in foods
  - introduce unknown allergens into food
  - involve moving genes both within or between species
* can make food last longer, taste better and have a better nutritional content
  - ordinary, familiar foods become toxic
* can produce a redder tomato, a taller giraffe, or a cow that gives more milk
  - crops that are more resistant to disease or that taste better
  - unforeseen and unknown allergens and toxins in foods
  - provide more nutritious and higher-yielding crops
* combines genes from completely different species.
* creates impertinence towards life itself
  - new allergens in food
* depends upon the ability to identify and manipulate specific genes.
* different process, but the end result is still enforcing human control.
* disobeys the most basic rules of nature.
* enables some plants to produce their own pesticides.
* enables the bioweapons makers to design even more destructive agents
  - introduction of new proteins into food
* entails eliminating or introducing specific genes into the nucleus.
* extends the available pool of genes and speeds up the process
  - plant breeding techniques used during the past century
* fact of life.
* far more advanced form of crop modification technique.
* form of biotechnology.
* gives multinationals more power over food, crops, seed collecting and farmers.
* has close parallels with the nuclear industry
  - many practical applications in medicine and agriculture
  - nothing to do with evolution
  - serious ecological risks
* has the potential to create better and more food for everyone
  - make ordinary, familiar foods become toxic
  - revolutionalize medicine and agriculture
  - wrong or harm a person, perhaps even more than to benefit
  - very real potential to change what it means to be a human being
* includes genetic rearrangement within an organism.
* increases the variety of DNA which is available for bacteria to transfer.
* involves actually inserting DNA from other species into the DNA of a crop plant
  - changing the genetic makeup of an organism
  - manipulating the genes of a plant
  - risk too
* involves splicing a gene from one organism into a plant or animal
  - single gene from one organism to another
  - the transfer of genes from one organism to another
* is about as far away from natural selection as it is possible to be
  - advocated by some as a viable means of increasing food supplies
  - also unethical because it produces social inequity
* is an experiment with our environment and with our health
  - imprecise technology
  - unknown quantity as far as public perceptions are concerned
  - unnecessary and unpredictable experiment with the safety of our food
* is another of science fiction's favorite solutions to pretty much all problems
  - way to protect corn crops from damage by the European corn borer
  - at present limited to transferring only one or a few genes
  - by no means limited to animals
  - clearly a choice about a child, and the child's future
  - dangerous technology
  - designed for intensive farming, and means big business
  - destructive to sustainable agriculture and food production
  - forbidden in organic systems
  - genetic surgery
  - in the media, in the movies and in some of our worst nightmares
  - incomparably the most profound manipulation of nature ever done
  - intended to combine the commercially desirable tendencies of both fish
* is just a variety of breeding
  - another form of reprogramming
  - like performing heart surgery with a shovel
  - necessary to feed the world
  - now a routine research tool with model organisms
* is one area being researched as an alternative method of pest control
  - of the main branches of biotechnology
  - specific technique within the science of biotechnology
* is only possible because all species share a very early prehistory
  - the most recent incarnation of corporate control over agriculture
* is part of a different view of the future of farming from what organics is
  - failed farm policy which is driving farmers off the land
  - perhaps the best-documented technology ever to emerge from a laboratory
  - quite advanced, and commonly practiced
* is simply an extension of breeding which is quicker and more precise
  - traditional crossbreeding
  - supposed to replace pesticides, end disease, and also feed the world
* is the deliberate transfer of single genes between organisms
  - final adaptation of life to machine
  - isolation, configuration, and asexual transfer of genes
  - largest food experiment in the history of the world
* is the manipulation and the privatisation of life itself
  - of genetic information to produce a desirable end result
  - modification of an organism's genome through biotechnology
  - next step in battling organ rejection
* is the process of changing the blueprints
  - modifying cell information
  - transferring genes between species
  - science of modification of genes in cells
  - tool for making a valuable original
  - therefore extremely rapid compared to selective breeding
* is used to express therapeutic genes in immature brain cells
  - introduce genes for specific traits into targeted organisms
  - synthesize human insulin
* lot more like kicking a dog than kicking a football.
* means taking one organism's gene and placing it into another organism.
* new biotechnology.
* offers new possibilities to obtain insect-resistant plants.
* opens up the possibility of humans taking control of life, itself.
* poses a risk to human health, agriculture and the environment
  - an even greater threat to health
* poses serious risks to human health and to the environment
* potentially dangerous technology.
* powerful tool in potato breeding.
* preoccupation with destruction, allowing life forms to be defined by death.
* procedure for isolating, manipulating, and expressing genetic material.
* process in which scientists splice one organism's genes into another.
* promises a wider diversity of better tasting, more nutritional foods
  - great advancements for controlling certain environmental processes
* provides the facilities for the gene transfer in plants.
* raises legal, medical, ethical, and religious issues
  - the question of the place of suffering in our world
* seeks to better the body.
* technique for transferring a single gene from one organism to another.
* technology developed largely with public tax funds
  - driven by commercial interest
  - with amazing possibilities for the field of medicine
* threatens the very fabric of life.
* uses material from organisms that have never been part of the human food supply
  - monoclonal antibodies to create new proteins, and develop new vaccines
  - vectors to transfer genes between species
* very complex process that science is only now beginning to grasp.
* way of altering the information storage and delivery of complex systems.
* young, and in many ways poorly understood, technology.