GMOs these days are a heavily debated topic. Whether they’re good or bad is yet to be found. Nevertheless, there is convincing evidence for both sides. When the Russian scientist Andrei Nikolaevitch Belozersky managed to isolate pure DNA, a cascade of events leading up to GMO products followed within a span of 45 years. The first GMO product released on the market was Humulin, insulin produced by genetically engineered E. coli bacteria, which regulates the amount of glucose in the consumer’s blood. GMO stands for “genetically modified organism”. It is what it seems— new genes are inserted into a plant or animal to benefit it, or its consumer, in some way. Take Bt crops, for example. Bt is a gene taken from soil bacterium. Plants given this
