Genetic Engineering: Cloning Deception

Genetic Engineering: Cloning Deception
Editorial & Column Writing


For the Filipinos in the present and future generation, Genetic Engineering is becoming a major threat for their spiritual and physiological survival. Manufacturers of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are now attacking not only the Filipinos’ health but also their faith in God’s art; Nature. By bringing in GMOs in the country, that are doubted to be safe, Filipinos are now in danger of crossing the threshold of the artificial and deceptive way of life.

Scientists claim that GMOs are manufactured to help lessen starvation and food shortage especially among the Third World countries. But some believe that there is actually more than enough food in the world and that the problem is food distribution and not production. But how could GMOs help Third World countries if GMOs cost much more than a Third World country constituent could earn? According to Charles M. Benbrook, author of an unpublished paper titled World Food System Challenges and Opportunities: GMOs, Biodiversity, and Lessons From America's Heartland, “It became apparent in 1999 that the public rationale for promoting genetically modified foods -- that such foods would "feed the world" -- was based on wishful thinking, not economics. It is now clear that U.S. genetically modified crops are too expensive to "feed the world."

Now, how could something be truly beneficial when it could only benefit limited well-to-do communities?
“Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!”

- Pope John Paul II

Sooner or later, due to the rapid liberation of the Filipinos from their old-fashioned ways, reception of Genetic Engineering in the country would soon lead to the most troubling genetic technological application of all; Cloning. GMOs are not at all different from Cloning. It has the same purpose; to reproduce organisms without the natural processes. And for Filipinos, cloning in the country especially of humans would lead to moral and quintessential deterioration.

“Cloning represents a very clear, powerful and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.”
- Leon Kass