Gordon Mallonee - leave things the way they are

I really like to eat food and up until recently I didn’t concern myself with what was healthy to eat and what I not. Eating a varying range of different types of foods is good but there must be a medium for a balanced diet. The foods that Hippy Kippy brought to class were all good things I wouldn’t mind eating. The only thing is about most food that people eat today has been altered in some way or the other. I’m not really sure how I feel about different chemicals being put into the food I am eating. I like to eat all different types of meat but some of them have been pumped full of chemicals that I don’t want in my body. Kelly Moody talked about how there are negative effects with altering our foods. I think that she is right in that we are harming our environment by not having a diversity of plant life in it. There could be some kind of key plant life that holds the balance of a certain type of ecosystem that were think is unimportant and so we allow it to collapse without really understand the full effects of what happens. Such things like this happen all the time with humans. We take actions before we really think things through. An example of this is the Cain Toad in Australia that was introduced to eat the grubs that would eat the sugarcane being grown. As it turned out the grubs would be out eating the sugarcane when the Cain Toads were not hungry and so the Cain Toads did not have the effect that people wanted. Instead they became an uncontrollable problem that had no natural control in the environment. This was because and predator that would try and eat the toad would die from the poison that is part of the self defiance system of the toad. Also the breading grounds in Australia were a prime place for the tadpoles to grow up in without having to worry about being eating so most of the eggs that would laid would hatch and as a result the population of the Cain Toad exploded and they now run freely everywhere. So I really don’t think it is a good idea to genetically alter plants just as some people don’t think we should be playing with the genetic make up of people.

GO GREEN !

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