Genetically engineered foods are all around us, yet many people don't realize it. ... Biological pollution is a serious consequence, because "while chemical toxins may be cleaned up, genetic engineering truly gives pollution a life of its own" (Environmental Hazards 1). Genetically engineered foods can also affect the environment through chemical dependence. ... This contradicts the benefit that genetic engineering will decrease the use of such chemicals. ... In this case, the crops are modified to be protected against the herbicides and pesticides, therefore actually increasing the ...

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The consequence of GMO's is the increased use of chemicals. ... Seventy percent of the GMO crops growing in the U.S. are engineered to withstand high doses of toxic weed killers. ... Because of the Food and Drug Administration's failure to require the labeling of genetically engineered food, avoiding these life threatening goods is difficult to do. ... Genetically engineered organisms also bear the risk of escape or are those that are released from the laboratory could create an ecological disaster. ... (Turpen, 2009,par.1) A study led by Doug Gurian-Sherman who is a lead scientist...

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Around half of cotton crop, an edible cottonseed oil, is also genetically engineered. ... Chemicals can be put into the fruits and vegetables for preservation, chemicals can be put into the feed for mammals that humans consume such as chickens and cows. ... The chemicals used in GM foods can cause flu-like symptoms. ... The chemicals that are used for genetic modification in the United State differ from chemicals used in Canada, Argentina, and Australia; affecting the genes differently. ... Like the research in the text above said we unknowingly always eat genetically engineered goods. ...

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There are problems that result straight from the engineered traits themselves. Genetically engineered crops can become toxic or invasive to the wildlife and the environment. ... Super-weeds are a type of weed that can tolerate most herbicides because of over-exposure to the chemicals. ... Genetically modified crops are often better adapted to the environment at which they were engineered for. ... Clothinidin is a type of neonicotinoid that comes from the chemicals that are used to kill super-weeds. ...

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Even though GMO's have their benefits, they also have some negative consequences such as the chemicals used to genetically modify. ... The chemicals used to genetically modify can be very expensive. ... To make the problem worse, dust clouds have the ability to carry chemicals and pesticide residue. ... It is likely that the chemicals used to genetically engineer them cause this (Shelby). ... During our research we discovered there are many different issues that are related to the issue of the genetically engineered crops. ...

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An example of a genetically engineered plant is Bt-corn.  ... Green biotechnology has been used is genetically engineer plants to create medicines and vaccinations. Golden rice has been genetically engineered with certain proteins that help prevent blindness. ... Genetically engineered plants can preserve them to grow more crops to give to people. ... Scientist is creating ways of bioengineering and chemical engineering a virus's life cycle in the patients favor. ...

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Many of the foods we already eat have been genetically engineered through breeding and hybridization in order to change the genetic structure to make crops stronger and healthier. ... Many food crops are genetically engineered to reduce the need to use pesticides and are tolerant to herbicides, such as Roundup®. ... Also, in developing countries where starvation is high, reducing the need for pesticides allows farmers to produce healthier crops without so many harmful chemicals. ... Crops can be engineered to resist certain herbicides as well. ... Besides the fact that GM crops use herb...

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Transgenic food, genetically engineered food, and genetically modified food all refer to foods derived from genetically modified organisms. ... All genetically engineered foods created so far are derived from genetically engineered plants. ... Peter Kerns (head of food safety, nanosafety, and chemical accidents for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris) says, "Some scientists [sic] have long questioned whether such feeding studies are appropriate for testing the safety of whole foods. They were designed for testing chemicals where precise doses of purified an...

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It is a healthier and safer option than the use of chemicals going into your body. For example, members of the Northern Canola Growers Association express, "GM foods such as BT corn can help eliminate the application of chemical pesticides.... "TT" is when the companies genetically engineer plants to "Produce a sterile seed after a single growing season" (Kimbrell 2003) ensuring that farmers cannot save their seed, having to buy their seed every year. ... Smith, world's bestseller on the topic of GMO foods – "Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about ...

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Since GM foods are not labeled, a person could suffer a potentially fatal allergic reaction. " For example, genetically modified tomatoes are more likely to cause an allergic response than naturally grown tomatoes because they are engineered with external genes. ... Valeria Jefferson, an author in the Journal Of Environmental Health, addresses this belief by stating, " The question becomes whether the damage that has been perpetuated upon the environment through the use of pesticides and harmful chemicals causes more damage to the environment than the narrowing of the germ plasma through the d...

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They are chemical instructions for building and maintaining life. ... Growing GM foods like the B.t. corn can help eliminate chemical pesticides. ... Plants can be genetically engineered to be resistant to herbicides and this would prevent environmental damage by reducing the amount of weed killer needed. ... Lastly, environmentalists are concerned that plants engineered for herbicide tolerance and weeds will cross breed, transferring the herbicide resistance genes from the cops into the weeds. ...

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These crops have been engineered to produce their own pesticides. "Many Americans have already begun to eat genetically engineered vegetables but research confirms that hardly any of us know it (Pollan 603)." ... Critics call the technology an example of a drive by agribusiness to make farmers dependent on them and the chemicals many of them produce. ... Although physicians are currently using gene therapy, they say that germ-line therapy would be much easier in finding the right place for the engineered genes (Joyce 623). ...

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The product being used was a potato which had been engineered to express an insecticidal compound (lectin) from the snow drop plant. ... This is what focused the attention on the role of chemical carrier of genetic information by the DNA. ... This then led to the experimentation of identifying enzymes which allowed parts of a DNA sequence to be chemically cut and recombined with other sources. ...

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