Biotechnology is an important discipline under humanities as an educational lens. Biotechnology is a discipline that has grown quickly in the past two decades. This technology is founded on our fundamental capacity to accurately present genetic modifications into an organism. Although the past five decades of agriculture have centered on meeting the fiber, feed, and food requirements of human beings, the challenges for the coming five decades go past merely addressing the requirements of an ever-increasing world population (Sklar, 2017). Besides yielding more food, agriculture will have to cope with decreasing resources such as arable land and water, have to improve nutrient density of crops, and attain these and more objectives in a manner that does not destroy the environment. Biotechnology and other emergent life sciences technologies provide useful tools to assist meet this multidimensional challenges. The notion of leveraging agriculture as green factories is anticipates to have remarkable positive effects for yoking solar energy to meet fuel and fiber requirements as well.
Over the past 50 years, the society has encountered the challenge of feeding an ever-increasing global population. Human populace has virtually doubled in the past four decades and escalated 5-fold in the past 200 years. Since the start of this century, agriculture has accelerated- first, with the innovation of chemical, economic procedures to lessen nitrogen to ammonia and the usage of nitrogenous manures in agriculture, greater genetics with hybrid and varietal crops, leading to an international green revolution, and eventually, with the innovation and the usage of chemical pesticides to oversee a variety of pests, comprising of insects, microbes, and weeds. Rigorous agriculture as practiced presently wholly leverages all the known advances and besides is benefited by improved irrigation methods, improved tillage structures etc. International cereal produces virtually doubled between 1960 and 1990 (Lee, Lee, & Cheng, 2019). Produces of both wheat and rice, crops mostly consume by the quickly increasing Asian populace, have radically escalated. Biotechnology wellness programs play a crucial part in reducing the problems related to food and nutrition by enabling the yielding nutrients enhanced food like soybean, potato, golden rice, and maize, potato. Wellness programs in biotechnology similarly play a vital role in regulating the environmental contamination through biodegradation of possible contaminants.
An evaluation of the social effect of food biotechnology has to look into the attitudes more intensely believed values that the global consumers hold towards food and the nature of its making, from agricultural through food handling through to food intake. The effect of the technology on the curses of intake and production provoke consumer issues over the naturalness of food, the choice and control that consumers are capable of exercising and their wish to attain a care for a sustainable world. Research has shown that consumers are capable of a differentiated and sophisticated assessment of the comprehensive effects of certain applications, in both environmental and social terms (McGarrigle & Walsh, 2011). Such assessments determine the outlooks of consumers to the appropriateness of the applications of contemporary biotechnology to food. The procedures for the control of this novel technology and its application to food making do not usually enjoy the trust of the general public. The degrees of confidence are low, nevertheless, trust and confidence are higher in nations that practice a more inclusive and open procedure of regulatory decision-making, particularly in the procedures of risk assessment.
For successful risk assessment, the risk management should consider the needs and concerns of the public, and extend the science centered assessment to entail consideration of these cultural and social concerns. This wider approach to risk management will allow an indistinct application of the preventive principle. This approach will consequently make for a successful course of risk communication and a more harmonious structure of risk management. Successful risk communication has to be reinforced by a procedure of decision-making that is as direct as imaginable over the disposition of the technology from the design and research procedure onwards