Genetically Engineered Domesticated Animals

How close are we to wanting a blue eyed baby, clicking a box, and then having a blue eyed baby? Very Close.

An Atlantic Salmon that has deliberately been inserted with a gene from a Rainbow Trout is called a transgenic animal. We could take a specific gene out of a human being and then put it into a test tube baby.

Google “transgenic salmon.”

The seminal ideology behind genetic engineering is both ancient and noble by most accounts.

but once you start, where do you stop?

If the government finds out that your child will have genes that would predispose him towards a life of violent crime, will they force you to genetically alter your child? Would you resist?

Once genetic engineering of human beings begins in mass – the laws, rules, and regulations will quickly follow. The laws would establish not only when you can change your child’s genes, but when the law itself determines your child’s genetics.

I guess it is important who writes the laws.

I file the movie “Gattaca” under Sci-Future.