The Genetic Debate: Selective Breeding or Genetic Modification?

Food production is a growing issue in our society today. We want bigger a lot faster than the product can have. We need crops that won't get wiped out by one single virus. This issue is dominating the minds of all who pay attention as our understanding of gentics grow and the more we can mess with the way our world operates. Selective breeding was how we originally started playing with genetics. If we wanted a fluffy, little puppies that stayed small forever, we would find two small, fluffy dogs and hoped that we would end up with what we wanted. When Gregor Mendel discovered genetics, we got into genetic modification. Genetic modification is when we delve into DNA and start messing around. If we want a fluffy little puppy, we go in and insert fluffy and small. Selective breeding helps breed out genes that we don't want, but on the flipside we never know what we're going to get. Genetic modification lets us get exactly what we want, for sure. But what happens when we go too far? We end up with bunnies that glow in the dark, something agaisnt nature. I'd say that the public needs to know more about genetic modification. If we are having our food fight bugs, we end up creating a stronger bug. I think that Mendel would be shocked with what we have done, and I agree. I think that it is entirely unnatural.