The Impact Of Transgenic Technology On Animal Welfare

As the core of the biological technology, transgenic technology is playing a more and more significant role in solving a series of major social problems which the world facing today. In the process of development of transgenic technology, consideration of the majority of humanity is what kind of interest transgenic technology can bring to the society, but also considers what kinds of impact this new technology will bring to the animal welfare.In fact, the relationship between transgenic technology and animal welfare is very complicated, various effects of transgenic technology on animal welfare in the use process is a concentrated expression of the complex relationship, but these influences are the origin of a series of social problems. Therefore, the author chooses the impact of transgenic technology on animal welfare for conducting research in order to further understand the complex relationship between transgenic technology and animal welfare. First of all, the article analysis the dual influences that the development of transgenic technology on animal welfare. Human beings can use the transgenic technology to increase the types of crops, enhance crop equality to meet the needs of the animals, at the same time, transgenic technology also improves the animal’s survival conditions, enhance animal’s cold hardiness and disease resistance, under this condition, animal’s welfare could get effective guarantee. However, human beings could not ignore the negative t effects that the transgenic technology on animal welfare. The application of transgenic technology on animal body can damage animal health and stress animal behavior; animal could increase the probability when they eat the GP crops which have the potential risk to animals; at the same time, the toxic metabolites could be increased when human beings use transgenic technology on animal survival environment, thus destroy the diversity of animal survival environment and so on, which have greatly damage on animal welfare.After discuss the double influences that the development of transgenic technology on animal welfare, the article explains the reason that transgenic technology has double effects on animal welfare from two aspects of characteristics of transgenic technology itself and human understanding of the transgenic technology and animal welfare, on this basis, people could analysis the necessity that discuss the impact of transgenic technology on animal welfare, from the basic guiding principles such as respect for the individual life, social integrity, technical safety and the participation of the public management to consider the complex relationship between transgenic technology and animal welfare. At the same time, people should establish the thinking of human systemic and holistic, improve human knowledge level of transgenic technology, correct the loss of human animal welfare concept and establish animal welfare standards in line with China’s national conditions to solve the negative effects that the transgenic technology on animal welfare. Through these ways, we could enhance the human animal welfare awareness and ensure the transgenic technology develop in a direction which is conducive to animal welfare.