Health Benefits Of Genetically Modified Food

Genetically Modified Food Food is an essential part of human life, and luckily it is sufficient and easy to obtain here in the United States. Many developing countries around the world, including U.S., have made advancements in the field of agriculture with help of biotechnology. Currently, the most common biotech used in farming is genetically modified organism. GMOs are organisms whose genetic material is altered using modern biotech. These organisms contain a combination of different genes, obtain from a diverse plant species, to produce a transgenic plant. The research aims to produce a new trait in plants that is not naturally occurring, for example, insect-resistant plant. However, the introduction of GMO has led to ranges of debate over the health, environment and economic issues among many researchers. The use of GM organism has disrupted the natural process to grow crops and raised many questions on public health safety. In order to GMO, people need to recognize the potential health risk that engineered food may bring to us. Proponents of GMO view modification of this crop as a health benefit, since this crop have reduced the use of …show more content…
Accurate awareness is required from the people to recognize this health risk and damage to the nature caused by biotechnology. The long list of side effects on animal studies, might soon show similar effects on humans itself. If we want the farmers to grow a crop without any mutation, then we should avoid purchasing GM foods and choose non-brand name or organic foods. Although the prices might differ, GM is much cheaper contrary to organic. However, if this promotes better and healthy food, price should not be a matter for a quality of life. The ultimate choice is placed upon well informed consumers, who are not held back in powers of government and companies of their own