If the title of this post freaked you out a bit, I wouldn’t blame you.

Anywhos, this post has to do with our PSHME session about two days ago (PSHME, by the way, stands for Personal, Social, Health and Moral Education) – our year gets split into 5 gorups and we are put on rotation. Every 6 weeks we study a different category – right now my group’s under Ethics/Morality. In these sessions, our teacher in charge (Miss Mansfield, bless her) brings up a topic and has us discuss the good, bad and ugly about it – topics include sexism, abortion, yada yada – those without definite yes or no answers, if you get my drift.

If you kinda guessed that our topic of the day was about genetic engineering, then props to you – it was precisely that. I think that if you’ve kept up with the sciencey-updates of this year and yesteryears, you’ll find that genetic engineering isn’t something brand-new; it’s been in place for a while now. We’ve got bacteria modified to produce pure human insulin to supply diabetics with their fix (last time, one had to rely on pork insulin 0_0). We’ve got sheep/cows engineered to produce life-saving proteins in their milk, which can be extracted and used to treat certain illnesses. We’ve already got GM (Genetically Modified) foods on our shelves; although not many. And then there are the experiments-gone-weird – ever heard of the tomato that tasted like fish?

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