If not the U.S. government will step in to protect the public and correct any harmful methods or additives used in the process. ... We must remove chemicals from the process of growing, harvesting, and preserving food. ... Basically the process is rearranging the plants DNA and certain genes through molecular biology taking specific beneficial traits from different species of the plant in the same family, and combining their strengths into one modified seed. For example if one plant repels weeds, and another resists insects, mutating them together creates a more resistant hybrid plant to pests...

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"Genetic engineering can be a scary term to those that do not have all of the facts; little do they know that a great deal of the fresh produce and meats that they buy at the local supermarket comes as a result of exactly that. ... A GM organism is a living plant, animal, fungus or bacterium that has been altered by insertion of a new gene (or genes) though a process called transformation. The whole process of discovering, modifying, and inserting new gens is called genetic engineering. ... Nowadays people can take a gene that gives resistance to a fungal infection in a wild plant and inserted...

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It is a key ingredient in products from meat sausages and fish fingers to salad creams and breakfast cereals."" ... Genetically modified plants can cross-pollinate with other plants. ... As a result, the government didn't approve Star link for human consumption and it was planted purely as a feed for livestock on just 0.4% of U.S. corn acres but recently, StarLink began turning up in 10% of corn at some of the nation's big grain processors. ... Plants aren't a docile as we think. ... Genetically modified plants pose a risk to Nature as well. ...

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Wells wrote those words in his novel The Time Machine in 1895; he recognized man's ability to alter other organisms; however, at that time it was a gradual, slow, and clumsy process. ... No longer does the gradual process of selective breeding confine improvements; we now have the ability to genetically modify a species' specific characteristics within a single generation (Ford 65). ... Although man has been varying the make-up of other organisms through breeding for thousands of years, a forum of distinguished scientists and educators called SCOPE explain that "the terms genetic...

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