
Yes, my curiosity knows few bounds. Some and not many.
Anyway, genetic testing exists today and will no doubt become much more specific in the future. Currently it can determine predispositions for a great number of illnesses ranging from ulcers to cancer to diabetes to mental illness to gender to hair color.
Yep, it's Brave New World, Gattaca and Beggars in Spain time.
There are any number of great reasons to have genetic screening. We do the macro-genetic form of it all the time on the farm. It's called animal husbandry. We want better milkers, better beef (dollars on the hoof, it's called), higher yield porkers, better layers (chickens, folks), better this and that. Forget Animal Farm. Now you have to worry about Animal Pharm.
Have a pedigree dog or cat or whatever? Same thing, not at the genetic level. Race horse? That, too.
Anybody ever read stories about the colonial America slave markets? There you go.
Many countries won't allow the import of GM foods. You didn't think that General Motors was diversifying, did you?
It's eugenics, now available at the genetic level and coming soon to an apothecary near you.
And there are excellent reasons to learn someone's genetic predisposition to things because what we know is coming we can plan for. If I know I have a predisposition to presbyopia then I can purchase reading glasses to save my eyes. Or I can become a Methodist.
There's the rub, me thinks. If I know what's in my genetically determined future, I can become proactive in determining my future quality of life.
But what if that information is available to ....




