Management Guru :- Professor Arindam Chaudhuri
...But then, all of it comes with a heavy price tag! From human endeavours to decipher the roots of natural food products to a long-standing battle to take control of the food chain, there have been times when man wished he’d never initiated the journey. So, can we afford to lose precious (though few) lives in our quest for that perfect recipe (which many a times has been extraordinarily fruitless) which even the heavens would be proud of? Surely not. And in the face of poisoning, fatal food allergies and increased risks of cancer arising out of genetically engineered foods, it should not be forgotten that despite noble thoughts being the force to trigger the whole activity, we can’t afford alive humans ending up as laboratory samples! Yes, from creations of newer and dangerously resistant strains of viruses & bacteria to bio-invasion, the dark side of genetic modification in food items is only getting darker. Tomorrow, we might have micro-monsters like Frankenstein in the form of mutable and highly resistant Superweeds and Superpests. Surely, the the theory of risk & return apply to the bio-world too!
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007
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