We’re an amazing lot.
If we are pro-women, we want a woman for whom we can vote. But, it can’t be any woman. It must be a pre-selected woman; Hillary, not
Carly. Black candidates should be
represented by Barack, not Ben.
The same holds true with science. Global climate change is fashionable so, it
must be true. As such, society must
recycle and drive vehicles made of papier mache or the planet will succumb to
humanity.
And when people want to have children in today’s world, they
can, and do, consult with the medical community in an effort to produce
offspring that are disease-free. Some
parents are even going so far as to select their progeny’s hair and eye color
via DNA treatment.
This was a news story on a local TV channel two weeks ago,
and has had me fuming ever since. Of
course I don’t want children to suffer from a preventable health problem for
any reason.
However, those children that are managed in labs are
perplexing to me.
I dare say society, as a majority, tends to scream loudly
when visiting a grocery store selling vegetables that are not labeled as to how
they were grown.
Because of droughts, pestilence, flooding, diseases, and
sunlight and climate variations, scientists have developed seeds for crops that
can withstand most or all of the above challenges.
A few short weeks of drought can leave entire countries
without food but, these genetically modified (GM) foods can endure such harsh
conditions.
The easily misled among us are apoplectic about these GM
foods making their way into America
Included in these GMs are salmon, and other seafood, that
can easily sustain down-and-out cultures world-wide that need food to prevent
starvation.
For some reason, such manipulation of the genetics of these
foodstuffs is viewed as evil and dangerous.
On the other hand, tweaking physical features of babies is
applauded as forward-looking, and promising for future generations.
You can’t have it both ways.
You must select, and GM foods hold promise to the hungry on Earth, and
are far more important than a child being born with red hair.
Sorry.
