Something out of a science fiction novel? A scientist's unrealistic fantasy? Maybe something that could happen in 500 years?

That may be what many of you believe. But right now, these miracles are happening in laboratories all over the world.

The first Genetic Engineering technique, still used today, was the selective breeding of plants and animals, usually for increased food production. In selective breeding only animals with desirable characteristics are chosen for further breeding. Though these practices may have seemed sufficient in the past, they are actually hit and miss cases with little chance of success. Through Biotechnology, breeders choose specific genes. Breeders can also incorporate genes from an unrelated species, giving an animal or plant new features the previously wouldn't be available. This system is faster, more exact, cheaper and less lik

Biotechnology, with the correct regulations and experiments, has the potential to launch the agricultural community far into the twenty-first century. Right now, agriculture creates the main source of income in our nation's economy. Yet, we are quickly being pushed down to number two by the computer and technology industries. By integrating Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering into our every-day farming lives, we can overcome any and all other industries, and keep our prestigious heights of competition and income. Soon these biological technologies will be used by the best farms and greatest breeders, simply because they choose to "Embrace the Change" as I believe all agriculturists should.

Plants can now be engineered to be resistant to pesticides, insects, and diseases. The environmentally-friendly herbicide Glyphosate is very successful in killing weeds, but unfortunately kills crops as well. Crops are now being engineered to be resistant to such herbicides. Grazing crops now have improved nutritional qualities to enhance livestock productivity. Pasture grasses, for instance, that have been developed with Lucerne strains become sulfur rich, which produces higher quality wool.

Some technologies are so inscribed with harmful ends that no amount of regulation and social direction can make them worth the risk. If I were convinced that genetic technology had no redeeming qualities and

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