Human genetic engineering

Introduction Vitamin A deficiency (VAD), the leading cause of preventable blindness in children worldwide, is especially prevalent in India (Chow, Klein & Laxminarayan, 2010). Due to the limited availability of nutritious staple foods in poor and rural areas, India hosts about 35 million children with VAD—the greatest number, and the greatest percentage, of VAD children in the world (ibid). VAD also affects more than 12 percent of pregnant women in India, causing them and many of their children…

This kind of corn sweeteners largely replaced natural sugar in soft drinks and processed food. In tremendous quantities, such diet of high-fructose corn syrup and refined carbohydrates leads to an augment of insulin secretion. It would result in a wearing down of the metabolic system by catabolism of elevated amount of glucose in blood. On a more sophisticated fact, there is much likelihood that such astonishing intake of high-fructose corn syrup could also bring about diabetes. Diabetes…

Planning Your Call/Visit Assignment The controversy surrounding mandatory labeling of modified genetically organisms (GMO) has been going around for about a decade. Farmers, food producers, and the food industry at large are leading a legal battle to fight any decision that would require the adoption of mandatory labeling. Conversely, consumers have raised serious concerns about food containing genetically modified organisms. The United States of America are still the lead producer of…

O on food packaging. Big Food Company’s try to hide the fact that they use many G.M.O ingredients in their foods but consumers want to know what they are consuming. Recently the FDA approved the sale of the first genetically engineered animal for human consumption. The fish is called AquAdvantage Salmon and it can be marketed as Atlantic salmon. There even might be no way for consumers to tell weather the salmon they are eating is genetically engineered. I picked this article because I…

damage. The genetic modifications are known to cause new weedy species through outcrossing and effect non-target organisms. Outcrossing is the transfer of engineered genes from GM crops to wild plants. This could give certain plant an advantage in the wild and radically alter ecosystems (Dill, 2010). Another issue with outcrossing is it could contaminate crops not intended to be GM crops. This becomes a major issue when the strain of GM food that is outcrossed is not approved for human…

technologies, or in other words, genetic modification technology. Genetically modified foods should be used for solving the colossal issue of world hunger because GMOs are not dangerous for humans to consume; they can feed millions, have more overall benefits than regular food, and GMOs are easier to cultivate and distribute than normal crops. Many people are concerned about the unknown effects of GMOs on human beings. GM technology is a relatively new development; so new, that humans have not…

have benefits but they come with costs. GM foods could make plants more resistible with pests and herbs; increases crop yield can have balanced nutritional ingredients, often cheaper to consume. Lewis (2004), Paterson (2003) and Wall (2004) writes genetic improvements allow producers to potentially lower prices, increase the quality of meat and milk products, and possibly increase resistance to diseases. Genetically modified…

Many of these products have been genetically modified without any signs of illness in humans. According to Pamela Bailey “ In fact, there has never been a single credible scientific study showing GMO’s to have harmful effects on human, animals or our environment… currently, the FDA does not require foods to be labeled as having been produced with GM technology because it has found that there is no health risk”…

The world hunger is a really worrying problem, either today and in the future. It is estimated that more than 12% of the humanity suffer with the scarcity of food nowadays (Long, C. (2013, March). Global food crises, food insecurity and measuring hunger. Retrieved from http://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/food-agriculture/impact-global-food-crisis-self-assessed-food-security#sthash.DFq7ZVzQ.dpuf). We have been fighting against the hunger since the Green Revolution in the 20th…

So far in sections one and two of Micheal Pollan, The Omnivores Dilemma, it seems as is all food chains have negative effects on us, the enviorment, as well as the animals we get it from. However that is not true. In this section, Micheal Pollan argues that the food chain called Local Sustainable is the best food chain there is for everyone and everything, they do not use chemical fertilizers or chemical pesticde which is harmful to everyone, they don’t pollute they enviorment because they…