I get that modifying food for a growing nation, population and world
has some logical reasons (crops having the ability to withstand droughts, or
floods, or bugs, or pesticides) and so, there are some very real and reasonable
arguments for genetically modified (GM) foods.
In fact, those who are pro-GM will argue that the GM seeds will help
farmers grow more food – with the result of more profitable crops. Nutrition-enhanced GM crops have the
potential to help the under-nourished.
Those who are anti-GM state the reason for hunger is really poverty,
inequality, lack of access to food.
Genetically modified crops do nothing to address those core
reasons. And although the crops will be
potentially fungus-proof (or whatever the issue may be), they will unwittingly
cause destruction to animals or soil they were not meaning to simply by mucking
with nature’s perfect balancing act.
So, with both the pros and cons on my mind, I can not help but still
feel weary. Really weary. And even with those very real and logical
arguments that are pro-GM, and they do make sense, I still have this unease
deep in my core.
It may be as simple as any time we try to improve on what God has done
(or Nature, or Spirit, or whatever you know to be the Higher power), we seem a
bit in over our head.
In my personal life, when I try to improve on God’s design, I can’t
help but make it worse. It’s not that I
don’t go in with the best intentions, because I do. I honestly believe and feel I can make it
better.
In the end, however, it’s just
that I cannot possibly account for all the things I can not see. And invariably, I miss something – and
that something was a critical component in the balancing act.
And I guess that’s my bottom line argument for my feelings on genetic
modification of food.
I just think Nature created it perfectly.
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