BioBusiness

BioBusiness definitely covers a wide aspects of life as most aspects of life began as bio-organism. One reason that might have strongly drove biobusiness in the past few decades might be our increasingly skepticism about chemical synthesis that drove much of our industrial growth. Many food product, health product or washing product nowadays consist of many chemical component that do not exist naturally. These chemical components are main suspects of health defects and cancers, are hard to dispose of and in the production, causes a lot of pollution. Thus, we look increasingly at understanding our biodiversity and turning to what mother nature provided us for solutions.

We are also looking increasingly towards understanding nature to fully maximise the potential of it, especially for agriculture. One example would be organic farming which depends on natural pesticides, introducing natural insect pradators and many other methods which involves addition of something that mother nature already provided us with.

Theory seems to go side by side with the emphasis on herbal medicine, 'when a disease or problem is created by mother nature, she would provide the solution too'. Some examples would be how in the vicinity of poisonous animals or plants, we can find another animal or plants which could neutralise the poison.

However, when humans tried to play god and created many synthetical problem, can natural methods resolve it? Only solution is to abandon our traditional way of trying to play god and rely on natural products.

Coincidentally, BGS on tuesday went through an article on the 'Big Pharma' or the pharmaceutical industry which is closely related to this week's topic.

One interesting viewpoint was how pharmaceutical industry tends to produce drugs that are not important or drugs against diseases that are neither life threatening nor common. They, instead, rely on lots of marketing to convince people that a common illness that does not affects us much is 'disgusting', or need immediate remedy. So much for all the R&D huh?