Did you not see "Planet of the Apes"? What is the difference, if they become intelligent?
Modifications might be for:
- resistance to disease... which means diseases become more virulent,
- increasing milk production... which means more care has to be taken in their feeding and milking so they don't die,
- adding nutrients to their milk... we already strip the milk down to powder, sterilize, and reconstitute, so these nutrients would be lost unless drunk raw (then see disease transmission, since some cows blood can end up in cows milk),
- using less water or less pasturage to survive... which means they can spread levels of arsenic (cows cannot survive without some arsenic in their diet, and consequently in their meat, milk and poop).
We know that various strains of influenza can borrow DNA from host organisms, and cows are in the loop on some strains of influenza. We have seen weeds end up with the spliced genes from genetically modified product plants (I wonder if we could sue them into compliance?). So how would you like to (say) end up lactating for the rest of your life once you have your first child? Not that this was accomplished via genetic modification... just breeding (if we had any part in it at all).
It all makes good sense as presented by "salesmen", until the other shoe drops, and it always does.
Then once you get to the non-biological implications:
- the company that owns the genes (not the person that feeds the cow), owns the progeny (aka. calves).
I've been researching but I can't seem to find a suitable answer, please help me out. I need to know.
