GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD

Contrast between Genetically Modified Food and Traditional Food

Contrast between Genetically Modified Food and Traditional Food

Introduction

In principle, there are substantial differences. In both cases it is food that has been modified by man in order to obtain characteristics considered beneficial. As for how to change the food, the techniques were varied and were supplemented over time. Traditional techniques include microbial processes such as fermentation and conventional breeding, which is based on genetic variation for breeding or mutagenesis and subsequent selection of the offspring that express the characters of interest. Modern biotechnology incorporates traditional tools of genetic engineering. This allows for individual genes in a less random, more controlled, and in times considerably less. It also allows options such as jumping the species barrier and, for example, introducing a human gene into bacteria. Many of the products applied to food biotechnology are still developing and are not in the market

Discussion

Plants that are grown today are different from their wild ancestors because the genetically engineered man from 10,000 years ago when he began to be a farmer. Since then promotes the survival and reproduction of certain varieties that are favorable to the detriment of others. In the traditional methods of genetic modification was added in the last decades modern biotechnology genetic engineering techniques (Dahr & Foltz, 2005). That is, through different methods, traditional and modern, man has always led to the genetic modification of plants and animals, selected for their nutritional benefits and productive. In this way are commonly consumed foods are genetic variants of human action on nature.

Traditional agriculture, organic or not, select and play those species that are more convenient, resulting in genetic changes in the original cultures. "The man selected plants that offer more features and makes selective breeding among these varieties to obtain offspring with better yields. In ...