Technology is present in the life of most people in the world. Eduardo W. Younkins said in his article “Technology, progress, and freedom” that without technology the world could face higher levels of starvation and diseases, and that technology also provide a better diversity of products. Some of this products are made of living systems and/or organisms’ changes and the technology used to make them is called Biotechnology. An example of Biotechnology’s product are the Genetically Modified food, that are planned to bring benefits, such as, better nutritional content, an improvement in the production, and resistance to diseases and insects. The Golden Rice is one of the GM food that is in the line for being released for the world consumption,
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According to them the new version of the Golden rice produces approximately 31μg of β-carotene/g of rice, which will be converted in approximately 2,5 μg of vitamin A per gram of rice, which can be concluded since the proportion between vitamin A/β-carotene is 1:12. When cooked the rice will still lose 25% of the vitamin A produced, what result in a little less than 2 μg of vitamin A per gram of cooked rice. The necessity of vitamin A can vary from a place to another, in the website they give as example Bangladesh, where a children need to consume 450 RE (Retinol (vitamin a) Equivalents) per day, and by eating more or less 200g of rice daily, the Golden Rice could supply them with approximately 338 RE (more than 70% of their need) per day. In the website is possible to find even the gene that are being introduced in the wild type to create the Golden Rice, so there are no hiddenness about the process behind this …show more content…
The fact that a people are afraid of the “contamination” of the wild types by the genetically modified ones is an example of this. Being genetically modified does not mean that they are mutants, or that the creators and growers does not have control over a possible cross breeding between the GE type and the wild type. Besides that, even though some problems with transgenic food have been reported in the past, in the present days the process is done more carefully, and all sort of tests are made in the plant to prevent the possibility to cause any problem, like an allergy or even mutations in the human’s organism, such as, cancer. Also is previous thought and prevent, as much as possible, any sort of negative impact in the
According to them the new version of the Golden rice produces approximately 31μg of β-carotene/g of rice, which will be converted in approximately 2,5 μg of vitamin A per gram of rice, which can be concluded since the proportion between vitamin A/β-carotene is 1:12. When cooked the rice will still lose 25% of the vitamin A produced, what result in a little less than 2 μg of vitamin A per gram of cooked rice. The necessity of vitamin A can vary from a place to another, in the website they give as example Bangladesh, where a children need to consume 450 RE (Retinol (vitamin a) Equivalents) per day, and by eating more or less 200g of rice daily, the Golden Rice could supply them with approximately 338 RE (more than 70% of their need) per day. In the website is possible to find even the gene that are being introduced in the wild type to create the Golden Rice, so there are no hiddenness about the process behind this …show more content…
The fact that a people are afraid of the “contamination” of the wild types by the genetically modified ones is an example of this. Being genetically modified does not mean that they are mutants, or that the creators and growers does not have control over a possible cross breeding between the GE type and the wild type. Besides that, even though some problems with transgenic food have been reported in the past, in the present days the process is done more carefully, and all sort of tests are made in the plant to prevent the possibility to cause any problem, like an allergy or even mutations in the human’s organism, such as, cancer. Also is previous thought and prevent, as much as possible, any sort of negative impact in the