GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD

Genetically Modified Food



Genetically Modified Food

Introduction

Genetically modified food (GM Food) is also known as bio-engineered food which is commercially. It is created through artificial modification of DNA thorough splicing. The DNA is cut and spliced from crop plants and modified for the consumption of human and animals. Since its advent, a lot have been said about how advantageous GM Food is with respect to it being higher in nutritional value and beneficial for health from all aspects. At the same time, GM Food has stimulated a lot of opposition as well. The disadvantages of the GM Food cannot be ignored.

Discussion and Analysis

In food safety, the main concerns are the presence of toxic agents from pesticides, drug residues and additives in farmed animals and fish farms, and the use of chemicals in the process of storing, handling and marketing consumer products. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) or GM can produce effects on human and animal health and represent a potential hazard to bio diverse countries. The large number of compounds of this type sold in the last decades of the twentieth century and the lack of control in the traditional use of these substances has aroused great concern about potential adverse health effects, although it is unknown to what extent are harmful to human health. Apart from its adverse effects, damage the liver, kidney, thyroid, immune, nervous and reproductive, carcinogenic, relate to cases childhood mental retardation and birth defects are difficult to eliminate by natural means (Pringle, 2005).

Another crucial health concern of GM food is the potential of higher allergies due to food chain. Genetic engineering may transfer some food allergies from which people care, others to which people feel safe. This is the case of gene-modified soybeans for a type of nut, in 1996 had to be removed ...