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GMF - Genetically Modified Food

Genetically modified food creates debates all over the world, mostly because we are changing the way of nature, and whether that is right or wrong? But it also creates debates about our society; will genetically modified food change it for the better or for the worst? 3 Genetically modifying food means that we’re changing the genome of an organism, in this case of our corps and animals. We do this to give it new properties. Some people consider this a natural development. But many especially in Europe think it’s nothing of the sort, and many demonstrations have been held.  In traditional breeding, two individuals that are related become crossed with a purpose to give us healthier animals or bigger harvests. The purpose of genetically modifying is the same; we want a better outcome. But with genetics you can put together parts of genetic information that may be from species that are not closely related at all. And that in nature these two would never be able to mix their properties 3 . We’re now playing with nature, for example putting properties of a fish into a potato. By the way humans develop; maybe it’s just normal that the course of nature develops with us in our rate that is, and in the way that we want it to develop. But are there consequences of playing with nature? Many of these questions are being left for the future, and no known really digs deeper in to the subject. But by GM we get bigger amounts of food, and many think this is the way we will solve the problem of starvation. But if GM would grow bigger than it already is the worlds’ food production will only lie in the hands of a few companies, what will happen with smaller food companies? We are changing our society by the minute, and we don’t even know if it will turn out for the good or for the bad. Genetically modified foods have brought controversy amongst consumers around Europe and The United States. There are many benefits to these newly modified products which can help the world prevent things like starvation, but there could also be some long term effects caused by these foods that we still do not know about 1 . <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Our immediate health is also benefited by these innovative products. As genetically modified vegetables are mostly immune to seasonal plagues, the use of pesticides is not needed to protect these products. As fewer pesticides are used in our food, the risk for people getting intoxicated with pesticides is therefore minimized. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Farmers are also financially benefited by these products. As they do not need to purchase pesticides they will have a better profit for the food they grow. They will also have safer crops because plagues will not attack them. As crops will not suffer from plagues, farmers will not lose any money because of unsuccessful crops <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: super;">1 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">. <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Genetically Modified Foods, like all things, have advantages and disadvantages. The major advantage of using GM Foods is that it can prevent starvation in third world countries, by adding different vitamins to rice for example people can get more nutrients in their meals and it is also more affordable <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: super;">1 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">. Another major advantage is that it is pest resistant <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: super;">1 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">. This is helpful because when growing crops farmers often use too much pesticide and too many chemicals to keep pests away and people do not want to eat foods that have been treated with chemicals and excessive amounts of pesticide because it can cause health hazards1. Fortunately by genetically modifying crops no chemicals or pesticides are used, also keeping all pests away <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: super;">1 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">. Another major advantage is that it is much cheaper to grow genetically modified foods for many reasons, first herbicide tolerance, it is a costly and timely process of growing crops and by genetically modifying the crops it saves time and money <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: super;">1 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">. Cold resistance is another thing that makes the crops die but by genetically modifying the crop, for example, by injecting cold water fish genes to tobacco and potato, these crops can now grow in cold weathers without dying. 1 <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Many people fear that GM Foods can cause health hazards in the future; this is the major disadvantage in society right now <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: super;">2 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">. Genetically Modifying Foods is not proven to be a safe and people don’t know if it may have a secondary effect genetically in future generations <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: super;">2 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">. This includes allergies, mutations, and unknown effects <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: super;">2 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Genetically Modified foods, like the B.t. from corn can cause the death of other organisms (insects), like caterpillars, but unfortunately there is no possible to create a toxin to kill pests but be harmless to the surrounding insects <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: super;">2 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">. The final concern is the economic concern <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: super;">2 <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">. This process of Genetically Modifying foods is a slow and costly process, so what will happen is that only few of the major companies will be able to do this and the rest of the companies will lose their jobs.

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