Some people support the development of factory farming and the scientific creation of fruits and vegetables in agriculture, but others oppose these developments. Discuss both the views and give your own opinion.
The inclusion of scientific approaches and advanced
technology in the field of agriculture has changed the face of agriculture.
Bio-technological advancements, according to many, offer lot of benefits in many
ways, but the same is considered as a negative development by many others. Both
the arguments will be analysed before reaching to the final conclusion.
To commence, out of many positive reasons one of the
major arguments to support such revolution is the opportunity to fight against
the scarcity of food all over the globe. To illustrate, many parts of the world
has been suffering with the lack of enough agriculture products, due to various
reasons like climate, geography or other natural or manmade problems. In this
scenario, the scientific methods will not only help us to produce crops, but also
to increase the quantity like never before. In absence of genetically modified
food the people of such parts of the world would have to starve. Moreover, such
technology helps us to transport these fruits and vegetables in easy way. For
example, products by factory farming may be modified to sustain for longer
duration and can be modified in shapes too. Japan’s square water melon is the
best example for this.
However, on the other hand, such practices in farming may
have negative impacts on the quality of the produce. Crops grown with these
methods are often given some harmful chemicals to grow faster, which may cause
fatal diseases in human body in a longer run. Sometimes, such fruits and
vegetables may cause some side effects and in this case they provide more danger
than the nutrition they provide. But on the whole, with wise and controlled use
of science these problems can be eliminated.
To recapitulated, after musing over both sides deeply, I
personally avow that even though certain drawbacks of factory farming or other
scientific techniques need to be taken care of, for higher amount to produce to
meet the growing demand, for making it easier to transport and to have
limitless opportunities to modify the food to meet our latest demands, such
practices should be welcome.