With all the modern scientific advances we are making today, especially in Canada, there are positive effects as well as negative effects. ... These have led to the development and production of new drugs, and potentially supply the answer on how to feed a growing population on limited space and cure world hunger. ... However, through proper regulations, constant testing by independent research firms and, government controls, genetically altered foods can and will be a continuing trend for Canada and the world. ... Canada is usually a few years behind the US in terms of allowing new prod...

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This essay will present why the artificial food is beneficial to our lives in terms of crop productivity, vitamins, and population. ... According to the report, "CABAN the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network," they claim that they really need this technology to feed growing populations. it is going to be difficult solving world starvation, when there is not genetically modified food crops available, and genetically modified crops are better than non-genetically modified crops, at tolerating poor soils or challenging climate conditions, (GMO Myths and Truths: GM crops are irrelevant to feed...

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"We improve our favourite plants and animals "and how few they are "gradually by selective breeding; now a new and better peach, now a seedless grape, now a sweeter and larger flower, now a more convenient breed of cattle. We improve them gradually, because our ideals are vague and tentative and ou...

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The best example of this has occurred in Canada when a weed species acquired resistance to three commonly used herbicides. ... However ,GM food also has a number of benefits : The basic benefits in the application of gene technology in the agricultural industries are as follows: sustainability of the natural resource base, o food security for a growing world population, o new products, and products to fit market specifications. ... Nutritionally improved crops with a higher content of proteins and vitamins can supplement the nutritional requirements of the lower strata of the populati...

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" This idea plays directly into the hands of powerful lobbies in Washington which are motivated by profit and create an environment that disregards the health, safety and prosperity of populations both home and abroad (ie poor urban areas and the Global South). ... The massive foreign investment by companies such as Monsanto puts local farmers out of work and mobilizes rural populations into urban slums. ...

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While other countries such as Canada and the European Union have banned many GMO's such as the bovine growth hormone, management and control appears to be a very popular recurring issue. ... Populations would be wise to amp...

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