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Genetic engineering, to many, is a state-of-the-art technique to improve almost every aspect of human life from our health to our environment, and to feeding the world’s poorest countries. To the others, it sounds too good to be true. Simply defined, genetic engineering is the taking of genes of one species, and giving them to another, with the plan of passing on a specific preferred characteristic. We now have plants genetically engineered to produce plastic with the idea that we will no longer have to rely on the Middle East for petroleum. In Canada, geneticists are inserting human genes into fish to make them develop faster. In the same way the Chinese are now puttin