Jurassic park

Genetically modified foods

I disagree with the genetically modified foods because it isn’t right for scientist to mess around with natural genes of plants and animals. In the long term genetic modified foods may be the cause of changes that are undesirable or directly dangerous. Genetically modified foods could be dangerous to eat, and we don’t how what the effects would be. It’s wrong to introduce the DNA of one species into the genes of another like fish genes in tomato plants to protect it from frost.

The scientists are trying to play god which they are interfering with nature. Scientists aren’t sure about the long the term effect of the genetically modified foods. Playing around with DNA is wrong, they shouldn’t play around with the DNA if they don’t know what the side effects are. It could risk peoples health, life and there allergies.

By Courtland

Film Critic Review.
Great effects. Pity about the plot. This is a film critic’s review. I completely agree and understand this review because for technology in the 90’s (which wasn’t that great in that era), it was amazing to see how detailed and real looking the dinosaurs actually were. I did find the plot to be a bit boring because like all movies of that era, they always end with a good ending. It would have been a great movie if there was a twist in which it looked like they made it out but then a disaster strikes them and they died. I also didn’t like the fact that they used a lot of scientific words which can confuse a lot of the viewers. Because a lot of the viewers of the movie are around 15 to 25 years of age. I do agree with the film critic one hundred percent. This movie is actually a recommendation for people with a very large knowledge of dinosaurs and the people who want to learn about the dinosaurs in a movie way or have a really easy understandings of scientific words. I would give this a movie rating of 3 out of 10.

Do we right to play with Nature

Some people believe that food should be genetically modified so that way it will be larger. Some people believe that it is ‘playing god’. If you want my opinion, I reckon that only certain foods should be modified such as wheat, barley, oats and rice. Other foods such as vegetables, meat, dairy products and poultry should not be genetically modified because they are more likely to be harmful to humans because they can cause allergies, gene transfer and they are also more prone to pesticide diseases. There has been mass criticising about scientist genetically modifying food and there has actually been cases of hippies destroying and stealing the food. In 1996, genetically modified food was first legally sold on the market. But it was soon taken off for health reasons, because some people were affected by it. I agree with but then I don’t..

Modified Foods

Jurassic Park!
Genetically Modified Food!
I disagree with genetically modified foods because it is not right for scientist to mess with the natural genes of plants and animals. I don’t think it is appropriate for scientists to interfere when humans have survived perfectly fine before they started to modified food. I know scientists are just trying to improve the world’s food supply but there is simply no need for it. It’s also very dangerous to modify the foods e.g. if scientists use fish genes in tomatoes to protect the tomatoes from frost, the consumer might have an allergy to fish and could have an allergic reaction to the tomato. It is not right for scientist to modify years of natural development for basically no reason at all, and there are only a very few amount who would prefer genetically modified foods over natural food, so it would not be a big loss if they stopped modifying foods.

Lori Aitchison!

Jurassic Park!

Do we have the right to interfere with nature?

Genetically modified food is something that may cause long term risk if scientists don’t know what they are doing but is it possible to know the risks of genetically modified foods in a constantly changing world.

I disagree with genetically modified foods because scientists are just trying to play god which means they are interfering with nature. Genetically modified food causes many concerns including environmental hazards, health risks and economic concerns. Some of the health risks could be that many people may be allergic to two genes that could be modified together which could cause serious illness or even death. Bringing genetically modified foods to the shops is a lengthy and costly process. If these plant crops cross-pollinate with each other, it could make a new plant which could be harmful to people and the environment. Then, if this happens a new gene would be introduced called the ‘suicide gene’ which would be put into the genetically modified food plant. This means that the plant would only grow for one season and their seeds wouldn’t germinate but then farmers would have to buy a fresh supply of seeds each year. However, farmers from the third world countries might not be able to afford new seeds each year and then that could put them out of business.

In conclusion, genetically modified foods aren’t really necessary because there is no reason to cause a risk to health and the environment if we can already manage without the modified foods.

By Alana!

Do we have the right to interfere with nature? - Mad

I think we should genetically modify food. It would be a good thing to do because it would save a lot of animals and help the farmers a lot. We could make fruits and vegetable that is frost resistant which would help farmers to get more money for their crops. It would also help by making plants vulnerable to pests and other thing that eat plants. If we were to genetically modify food we could make food that is drought resistant. It would also help the poor countries because they would be able to grow food which grows faster and we would be able to give them food. We could also make food which can grow all year round instead of growing in different seasons.

It would also help with people health; we could put extra nutrition in some types of food. We could also make fat food that is a lot healthier but still tastes good. Also if we genetically modified food it would be a lot cheaper for people to buy. It would be cheaper because there would be a lot more of it.

So I think genetically modified food would be a good thing and it would solve a lot of problems we have to do with food.

is the critic right? -- Mad

Is the Critic Right? - Mad

“Great effects. Pity about the plot”

I think what the critic said is a fair statement. I think it meant that it had really good effects for a movie made in the 90’s but had a really bad story line that wasn’t all that interesting. When they say “great effects” they talk about how the dinosaurs and the environment looked. They looked realistic and moved as they would of millions of years ago. Also when they say “Pity about the plot” I think they meant that the story line wasn’t that good and the actors weren’t playing their role that well to make it more realistic.

I agree with the stamen because I think it fits the movie well. I didn’t like the movie that much because the plot wasn’t that good.

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