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The potential benefits of edible medications are
extraordinary. This offers a solution to depraved medical
attention that is so problematic in underdeveloped nations. The ability to produce medication in a medium
that can be successfully utilized in third world nations is a bounding leap
for humanity. Foods such as bananas
and potatoes are easily grown without technologies that are lacking in underdeveloped
countries. Potatoes do not require
refrigeration, and the “eyes” of potatoes possess the ability to grow more
potatoes with medicinal properties. Bananas
do not need to be cooked to be ingested and are easily pureed so that proper
doses of medication can be administered. Additionally, none of these vectors for administration of medication
require a syringe. This is not only preferable because it is less painful,
but without the need for syringes the issue of sterility is all but neutralized.
Most of these edible foods have already been produced in the laboratory,
and are ready to be taken out into the field to help combat disease in countries
where cures for most diseases are unattainable due to lack of finances and
availability. Edible vaccines are a wonderful cure to global
medical attention.
This webpage was
created by David Shelburne ’04 & Paul Toran ’03 as an assignment for an
undergraduate
course—Bio
361: Genetically Modified Organisms—at
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