Reaction to Biopharming

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Biopharming: I agree with the proposition that biopharming should be introduced to drug industry since nowadays, bitechnology is becoming more popular in modifying and improving plants that is used for commercialization. In addition, we always encounter biotech products in our daily routines especially from the food that we consumed. Ingredients or seasonings as well as transgenic fruits, animals and other gm products where biotechnology is applied. As I have read, I can see that biopharming is faster for the reason that its production rate is greater than the medicines produce by pharmaceutical companies considering the massive productions just from a thousand of acres of land. In addition, according to the article, when the gene is inserted in the cells of the plant, the plant does the work in transcribing the proteins using the Earth’s unlimited resources. I can imagine it how producers save money in doing the process already done by the plant. Biopharming is also cheaper because, instead of using expensive manufacturing plant, biopharming derive its manufacturing from the sun. As a concern consumer, biotech should always take into consideration how the operations affect our natural environment. Of course, it is one of the important factors that should be considered since, these is where they yield and harvest their products. Also, they should include the safety of the consumers as their main goal or reason why they are making these products not just only to make it cheaper, try or apply new technology, and compete with other drug companies. I also think that as the history of how medicines were made, it will also take a long term process before biopharming will be fully accepted by consumers and be marketable. But, if this biopharming works in the future it will greatly help the people, the ecnomy of our country while protecting the Earth’s

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