In the modern society, there is an increase number of people concerned about food safety around the world. These food safety worries are primary about some new food species. This food which combines their DNA by using genetic technology is called genetically modified (GM) food. Scientists can make specific changes to food’s genetic structure and can alter food’s original characteristics. There are both advantages and disadvantages of GM food. The benefits of GM food are that researchers can improve the nutritional value of GM food and GM food can reduce pesticide use. However, there are also a number of renowned negative aspects such as GM food may take poisonous effects on human health and its unpredictable consequences of environment. Therefore,
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One of these is the unknown effect on human health. To begin with, (8) declares there is a growing concern that importing different country’s genes into food plant may have an unexpected and negative impact on human health. For example, a GM potato experiment which claims that rats digest ability are distinct after they fed GM potatoes and fed normal potatoes (8). Similarly, according to another experiment, some rats died within a few weeks after they ate GM tomatoes, because of the toxic effects (6). Otherwise, if GM foods such as GM peas probably have no adverse effects on animal testing, but this situation does not mean GM foods are safe for humans, because there have no enough strict specific dangerous assessments to guarantee the GM food safety for humans(6). In fact, scientists should test more initial safety experiments and followed by clinical experiments with volunteers to discover any possible harmful effects. Another most controversial issue is the unpredictable consequence of GM food on the environment. For example, scientists concern GM food may disrupt ecosystem processes, and people perhaps not see the negative effects on the environment because of the outcome which GM food affection for the environment may appear many years later (4). In addition, there are many strange and needless genes would be introduced in the traditional plants, …show more content…
One of the major health problems with GM food is the possibility of new allergies. Many children in the world are sensitive to allergies, which may cause by peanuts and other foods. (8) asserts there is a chance that scientists may introduce a gene into a plant and probably create a new allergen gene, thus cause an unexpected allergic reaction in those susceptible children. Further to this, To assessment of the allergen of GM food is difficult when the gene is transferred from a strange source or with unknown anaphylactogen, because while there are many appropriate animal supersensitive testing, no such experiments for allergy testing (6). Specifically, because of the deficiency of reliable ways for allergen experiment, it is impossible to make sure whether the GM plant is allergenic. Besides this issue, there is another significant drawback of GM food which is it may produce poison, then affect the environment. For example, GM food may produce higher levels of Bt toxin which is a type of poison than expected. While these crops are supposed to include only small of this toxin, there is also a probability that this toxin could be assimilated into the soil (4). Similarly, (8) also declares that B.t. toxins which produced by B.t. corn eliminate countless species of insects indistinctively and it is impossible to
One of these is the unknown effect on human health. To begin with, (8) declares there is a growing concern that importing different country’s genes into food plant may have an unexpected and negative impact on human health. For example, a GM potato experiment which claims that rats digest ability are distinct after they fed GM potatoes and fed normal potatoes (8). Similarly, according to another experiment, some rats died within a few weeks after they ate GM tomatoes, because of the toxic effects (6). Otherwise, if GM foods such as GM peas probably have no adverse effects on animal testing, but this situation does not mean GM foods are safe for humans, because there have no enough strict specific dangerous assessments to guarantee the GM food safety for humans(6). In fact, scientists should test more initial safety experiments and followed by clinical experiments with volunteers to discover any possible harmful effects. Another most controversial issue is the unpredictable consequence of GM food on the environment. For example, scientists concern GM food may disrupt ecosystem processes, and people perhaps not see the negative effects on the environment because of the outcome which GM food affection for the environment may appear many years later (4). In addition, there are many strange and needless genes would be introduced in the traditional plants, …show more content…
One of the major health problems with GM food is the possibility of new allergies. Many children in the world are sensitive to allergies, which may cause by peanuts and other foods. (8) asserts there is a chance that scientists may introduce a gene into a plant and probably create a new allergen gene, thus cause an unexpected allergic reaction in those susceptible children. Further to this, To assessment of the allergen of GM food is difficult when the gene is transferred from a strange source or with unknown anaphylactogen, because while there are many appropriate animal supersensitive testing, no such experiments for allergy testing (6). Specifically, because of the deficiency of reliable ways for allergen experiment, it is impossible to make sure whether the GM plant is allergenic. Besides this issue, there is another significant drawback of GM food which is it may produce poison, then affect the environment. For example, GM food may produce higher levels of Bt toxin which is a type of poison than expected. While these crops are supposed to include only small of this toxin, there is also a probability that this toxin could be assimilated into the soil (4). Similarly, (8) also declares that B.t. toxins which produced by B.t. corn eliminate countless species of insects indistinctively and it is impossible to