Biotechnological Plants ? A New Face of Technology
Biotechnological Plants ? A New Face of Technology
Biotechnology is a new and emerging technology derived from various divisions of science that includes medicine, agriculture, biology and food science. It mainly uses the concepts of Genetic Engineering that is concerned with the cell and tissue culture of plants and animals. It takes into account various disciplines of science like molecular biology, microbiology, embryology, biochemistry, genetics and cell biology. All these concepts are used for the alteration and development of living organisms to serve mankind effectively. Some of the procedures include animal domestication and plant cultivation. Various types of plants are cultivated by applying techniques like artificial selection, hybridization and breeding. Biotechnological plants use all these methods to develop medicines and other pharmaceutical products.
Biotechnological plants are mainly engaged in manufacture of active pharmaceutical medicines and other products. The medicines developed by these plants are cost-effective that can be afforded by everyone. It uses simple and easy methods of production. It has produced different therapies and treatments that use genetic engineering. Numerous treatments are developed by these plants that can cure deadliest diseases like hepatitis B, hepatitis C, cancer, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, haemophilia and cardiovascular disorders.
In various sectors, biotechnological plants have proved their excellence. In the areas of agriculture and food products, it has made significant contributions. It has improved the varieties of food products and other commercial crops. Besides increasing the crop yield, numerous efforts have been made to produce such crops that can bear the abiotic and biotic stress and contain more therapeutic proteins and other nutritious components. The ripening span of fruits has been increased and also the spoilage process of fruits has been decreased. Hence, we can say that biotechnology is a growing technology that has given new heights to medical world.
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This in-depth video provides personal experiences from more than 20 farmers worldwide who, one-on-one, share their opinions and perspectives about growing GM crops over the last 10 years. www.monsanto.com
‘truthadvocate’…”How can they morally ignore the benefits it can provide mankind?”…
You need to go talk to some farmers, and seed savers who know the difference between GMO crap, and real food…In fact the opposite is true….Farmers have committed suicide, more pesticides are used on GMO crops, and more and more 3rd world people are losing their land and gettin’ crammed into miserable slums in the city, when they use to at least be able to grow some of their own food…
Biotechnology! Another Monsanto trap! Dirty Fuckers!
lies lies lies monsanto lies the people die!!!
GM Crops in Canada have contaminated non gm seeds GM genes have jumped from GM pollen to non GM crops. Gene jumping is inherent to the GM Techno. + contaminated the soil Gm Crops contain Viral Promoter, who leads to cancer. CaMV Promoter. Do start reading your Goyems.
OR the whole world dies….
O jisses christ The gen man seed are “lethal it content SV40 and aids Promotor.
Dont you read any ?
The Nobel people in 1970 when they were giving Norman Borlaug a prize, they siad it was for saving a billion lives. Funny how these people are happy to have ANY food and yet someone still has the nerve to bitch about their own irrational discomfort. Goddamned heartless whiners.
There’s a widespread fantasy in profligate and wasteful western societies that simpler kinds of tribal communities really were more in touch with nature, less violent and more pleasant. I believe most GM and fission opponents are people who share this fantasy.
Studies of a wide variety of contemporary hunter-gatherer type societies show that a male has a ~30-60% chance of dying at the hands of another male from a different tribe. Their lives are short, disease-ridden and brutish.
Biotechnology saves lives, reduces pollution, reduces pesticides in our water, reduces starvation, improves the standard of living in third world countries, offers alternatives to fossil fuel energy production, and still these nut cases protest the entire industry. How can they morally ignore the benefits it can provide mankind?
What people don’t realize either, is that in at least 15 states…These corporations have pushed through the state legislatures limitations now so people can’t vote on the GMO issue locally. This started to happen after some local counties voted to ban GMO’s…Goes to show these Corp. and Reps. could care less about people’s concerns and voting rights…It’s ugly stuff…
It’s not just about labelling…But GMO crop contaminates other/organic crop – whether we like it or not…And the Monsanto’s and ConAgra’s could care less, for those of us who don’t want it in our food at all…I am against all gmo at this rate…
I don’t think that most Americans know that 70% of their processed foods contain GMO’s, and these foods are not labeled. Since there are health and environmental risks related to GMO’s, these foods should be labeled, like they are in the EU.
Is Monsanto trying to hide something? It is irresponsible and deceptive to create and distribute GMO’s without letting the consumer know and have a choice. If plant biotech is to survive is needs to be forthright and responsible.
Also…go to – grain dot org. to find out how Monsanto is bullying people and farmers around the world to grow gmo crud…
NSResponder…
Huh?. Have no idea how that statement of yours has anything to do with not wanting to be forced to eat gmo crud…
“Making these items “for profit” is what really makes me angry.”…
GOOD!!…It should make people furious!!. Farming for 10,OOO yrs. was independent, and free from Corporate profit. And we should be concerned about it’s affects on the ecology too!…For scientifically critical views on GMO…google -’nature institute’…go to say-no-to-gmo, ge free maine for info. on being active against corporate greed.
Purplelotus,
Perhaps you’d prefer to freeze in the dark, while you’re starving to death?
You’d better hope you never live under the kind of government that murdered about 30 million people in the Soviet Union, and 77 million in China.
-jcr
i thought this video was about global warming….
Greedy capitalists are responsable for antibiotics, MRI machines, pacemakers, etc. The fact that these people make food is no different. Money is spent on research and to pay scientists and engineers to develope and make this technology. They deserve to turn a profit for thier work.
You can’t say that, what about medicine or implants. Should those belong to the people too? When companies can’t turn profit they do not invest in research and the ability to create life saving technology fades away.
Oh, Monsanto is soooo good… farmers who keep their seeds to plant the next year are sued for that!
Is that how they want to “end world hunger”?
And I suppose you’re any better person to believe than the greedy capitalists?
yeah, at first they give it to the farmers for free and the next year, when the farmers are dependent on them they’ll sell it for high prices. GM seeds are not very fertile, even if they’re not Terminater Seeds, and you can’t keep a part of the harvest back in order to sow the seeds the next year again under these conditions. You depend on someone else to sell you seeds every year…
How about greenpeace convincing 3rd world countries not to take gm crops FOR FREE just incase, and millions starving as a result? Is that ok on your moral compass?
Bolivia had the right idea when they revolted to take their water back from the corporation that tried to sell their own water to them.
Having a healthy, happy, and united community is to the benefit of everyone, and you can’t have any of that when people are starving. If the companies were actually “giving” the GM seeds to farmers all over the world, now that would be something.
I don’t think the real issue is that GM foods are bad for people or for the environment (no studies have shown evidence of this, but who knows, they used to think DDT was OK). The real issue is who owns the “rights” to the food. Sorry corporations, it’s not you… it’s the people. People have a basic right to food, water, clean air and shelter. Making these items “for profit” is what really makes me angry.
Hmmmm, I find it highly unlikely that anyone is being “given” GM seeds to grow crops. While it’s true that genetically modifying food can help produce more food per acre and make them resistant to disease and pests, it’s also true that patenting food is morally disgusting (though patenting the splicing process I can see as being OK).