A worst-case scenario would be to eradicate the disease carriers using Gene Drive and other methods. However, the legitimacy of this argument is difficult because of the victims of mosquito-borne diseases. In insects, as in the various extermination concepts for mosquitoes, when genetically modified organisms are released as extermination tools, this can trigger unimagined chain reactions. If the last wild animals disappear, an original species is extinct. The best and most cute animals are genetically modified and the not so good, tasty or less cuddly species are becoming less or more contaminated sooner or later. The same thing happens with pets and livestock. The wild species die or are so profoundly contaminated that there is no unmodified genetic material left.

On the one hand, the hybrid plants are immune to the various agricultural chemicals and furthermore, they mix more and more in the gene pool and there are fewer and fewer original plants left. Because the pimped super vegetables supplant the natural competitors by two methods. The long-term consequences and contamination of the environment are not taken into account which causes in the US, among other things, that the non-genetically modified species go extinct. They monopolize the plants and animals, which still actually belong to everyone.

Much more attention is paid to the dangers of genetic engineering than to the destruction of the environment but what is despicable and exploitative is the patenting of life forms and the current misuse of technology by various biotech, pharmaceutical, agricultural and seed companies. What is going to happen in the worst case, especially in face of and concerning exploitation and destruction of nature that could be reduced? In comparison, a genetically modified super invader is almost nothing. Moreover, we will integrate it everywhere possible what could have funny or tragic consequences. After all, the underlying method is based on an adaptive antiviral defense mechanism of bacteria. One should imagine what comes together in a sewer system or the deltas of rivers in the long run. Also, the even more unrestricted contamination of nature is thus open to the flood of new life. Imagine a biotech toy box for children, with which they can tinker their cuddly pets or lethal viruses. The critical difference is that a cheap mass application is possible with CRISPR. The susceptibility for errors was different, but in principle, the researchers always played to a part the crazy scientist who created new life. Be it the use of radioactivity or toxicity, the gene gun, PCR, TALEN, CNF or genome editing. The previous methods before CRISPR were also not exactly precision instruments.

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