Bioethics: The Role Of Ethics In Biotechnology

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What is ethics? Ethics is a framework for human actions that forbids action against morality and humanity. So it is considered as a line that should not be stepped beyond to prevent any breach that could violate anything. Ethics for biotechnology and other biological field called “bioethics”. Even though those two terms sounds similar they are for different causes. Ethics is generally coined term but “bioethics” is specialized term in that particular field. Bioethics is used in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law and philosophy. It was first used by Fritz Jahr in the year 1927 then later used in 1970 by the American biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter to include broader meaning of it. Currently bioethics …show more content…

There are potential health, economic and business benefits. Such are their rewards which includes curing diseases, increasing food supply and improving life quality. New promising research and discoveries will open doors for more investors and alternately will boost the economics value of a country. Those income can be used to develop the country involved in. Where else the income from food technology and industry can be used to increase the food production and more industry can be built. Latest researched patents of food technology could be sold for more revenue around the world and may improve business of a company that patented …show more content…

Non-GMOs will get infected by the GMOs and changes in to an unknown functional group of organisms in the environment. Food chain will start to break and it affects all the organisms in the particular territory. As well as genetic changes in organism could alter the environment to reconstruct it self and in the process human being will suffer along with other organisms. An environment is delicate since a little change or new organism introduced will overwrite the daily role of an organism thus it would be wise to adapt ethics in to biotechnology.

Even though hundreds of company claim the patents of GMO products, opponents states that nobody can claim ownership to any organisms on Earth. Life is sacred to everyone and from Mother Nature. No one can claim the Mother Nature as theirs and only. The patents are being abused by companies to rake more money from helpless farmers who wanted to lead a decent life by planting a non-failing crops.

In spite of accidents occur in every research and experiments, every single research will be carried in a tightly controlled area. A special lab or work area will be build to accommodate the researchers on their work which should be sufficiently keep the experiments

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