Biotechnology

Biotechnology Throughout the industrial age, our society and environment has been completely modified by collecting and transforming massive amounts of inorganic materials. Numerous metals, minerals, and fossil fuels are mined, filtered, dug, and pumped from the earth. They are then burned, hammered, soldered, melted, restructured, and recombined to create the machines, structures, and artifacts of the modern world. We are now adding living human material to the inorganic matter being transformed in our system of production. Advances in gene technology have enabled us to begin the engineering and commodification of the over 100,000 genes of the human body as well as the genetic makeup of all other living things (Yount, 50). With current genetic engineering technology, it is becoming possible to snip, insert, recombine, rearrange, edit, program, and produce genetic materials in almost the same way as our ancestors were able to separate, collect, utilize, and exploit inorganic materials. Without question, genetic engineering represents the ultimate tool in the manipulation of life, the ultimate technology of the human body shop (Kimbrell, 145). It extends humanity’s reach over the forces of nature, and over the human body, as no other technology in history has. Scientists have become capable of reprogramming the genetic codes of living things to suit our society’s social and economic needs. With genetic, human, genes, engineering, living, scientists, body, animals, engineered, economic, biotechnology, years, valuable, units, ultimate, traits, technology, research, production, product, produce, over, next, nature, milk, materials, life, just, industry, important, gene, few, fashion, even, engineer, development, create, cloning, been, becoming, alter, already, almost, yount, young, world, within, while, were, composed, way