What are the ethical concerns of biotechnology?
Biotechnology is producing newer genotypes. Some of them can be extremely harmful due to intragenomic interactions and mutations. It introduces unfamiliar proteins into transgenics which may react to form toxins and allergens. The genes introduced into crops can pass into weeds through pollen transfer. It will produce superweeds. It is going to cause genetic pollution which is likely to disturb natural balance in a big way. Animals employed in experiments of biotechnology are made to suffer. Animals being used to produce particular structures and pharmaceutical proteins are reduced to the status of factories. As a gene is introduced from outside into an organism, its integrity as a species is violated. Transfer of genes from human beings to specific animals or vice-versa violates the concept of humanness. Biotechnology has no respect for living beings. Its only goal is to exploit them for commercial use in benefitting human society. In their race to gain supremacy over others, companies and individuals are rushing for biopatents even of those products which are produced through the traditional knowledge of tribals, communities, and societies.
