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Genetically Engineered Food

            
             Genetically engineered food and agricultural biotechnology have generated considerable interest and controversy in the United States and around the world. Some have faith in the technology's benefits while others raise questions about environmental and food safety issues. Genetically engineered food is a product of human advancement that holds a key to a promising future, only if the general public is properly educated about the concept of agricultural biotechnology.
             To better get a hold on the concept of genetically engineered food, it's necessary to understand what is actually meant by genetically engineered or modified food. Genetic engineering is a division of science that involves altering a genome of an organism to attain certain results. Recent innovations in biotechnology allow scientists to select specific genes from one organism and introduce them into another to confer a desired trait. This technology allows to produce new varieties of animals and plants more quickly than conventional methods and to introduce traits that are unachievable through traditional techniques (genetically 1). Therefore, genetically engineered food is obtained from a source-whether plant or an animal-that has been modified genetically by either introducing new genes or somehow altering the original genes of the organism.
             Agricultural biotechnology has already provided with many advantages and is working in providing with some more in the future. Major biotechnology products in the market today include genetically modified crops engineered to tolerate herbicides and resist pests. New varieties of corps have been created that carry herbicide-tolerant genes allowing the farmers to spray their fields to eliminate weeds without damaging the crop. Similarly, pest-resistant crops are engineered to contain a gene for a toxic protein from Bacillus thurigiensis (Bt)-a soil bacterium. The whole entire plant produces the Bt protein and is, therefore, resistant to insect pests.


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1. Genetically Engineered Foods

Genetically Engineered Foods In each plant and animal there are millions of genes. ... Genetic engineering may take the genes from an animal and insert them into that of a plant.(6) With such technology genetically engineered foods can have a very positive impact on the world. ... Other than risks to wildlife, scientists have several concerns about genetically engineered foods contaminating the environment.(1) The technology of genetic engineering is used to enhance many different organisms, but most importantly foods that we eat everyday. ... Some genetically engineered foods inc...

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2. Genetically Engineered Foods

Genetically Engineered Foods The use of genetic engineering in agriculture and food production has an impact, not only on the environment and biodiversity, but also on human health. ... By doing this, genetic engineers believe that they can improve the foods we eat. ... Genetic engineering has also improved the quality of some foods. Genetically engineered foods, such as fruits and vegetables, can now stay ripe longer. ... To consumers, most genetically engineered foods are foods with added substances; usually proteins. ...

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3. Genetically Engineered Food

The reasons for genetically engineering food are many. ... Vitamin-A rice does not have much of purpose, as does most genetically engineered food. ... Fish are being genetically engineered to grow eight times faster than normal rate. ... Most genetically engineered foods carry fully functioning antibiotic resistance genes. ... Transgenic pollution occurs when genetically engineered pollen is blown or somehow carried onto organic plants. ...

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4. Genetically Engineered Foods: Why Not?

There are many potential benefits that come with genetically engineered crops. ... All the negativity on genetically engineered foods is more hysterical and emotional than factual and real. ... Genetically engineered crops may scare some people because it is a generally new idea. ... Genetically engineered foods may encounter a few obstacles to widespread public acceptance. ... Some urge an outright ban on any genetically engineered foods. ...

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5. Effects Of Genetic Engineering On Agriculture

Genetic engineers are working on a strain of P. syringae that would not form frost on plants. ... Scientists must be extremely cautious about releasing genetically engineered organisms into the environment. ... This is because the introduced gene may act differently when working within its new host, the original genetic intelligence of the host will be disrupted, the new combination of the host genes and the introduced gene will have unpredictable effects and therefore there is no way of knowing the overall, long-term effect of genetically engineered foods on the health of those who eat them. ...

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6. Genetically Engineered Foods

Genetically Engineered Foods Genetically engineered foods (GEF) are considered to be one of the largest food experiments in the world's history. ... In defense, genetically engineered foods can make plants ripen faster, improving the specie's taste and look. ... Genetically engineered foods and food products have several disadvantages which are possibly avoidable through further, long-term research. ... By doing this, genetic engineers believe that they can improve the foods we eat. ... In the meantime, I believe labeling should be required for any food that contains geneticall...

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7. Health and Genetically Modified Foods

Around half of cotton crop, an edible cottonseed oil, is also genetically engineered. ... Genetically modified foods have been a part of agriculture for many years. ... At this moment in time the US is the leading consumer of genetically engineered foods: if we do triumph this leading product we would be able to help countries in need who suffer from malnutrition, famine, and starvation. ... Like the research in the text above said we unknowingly always eat genetically engineered goods. ... In its entirety genetically engineered food does not negatively alter my life therefore I do not challen...

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8. Gentically Engineered Food

Genetic engineering was once thought of to be impossible, but today we are capable of making a "super food". ... Splicing foreign genetic material into genomes, creating new organisms that could never arise in nature, creates genetically engineered foods. ... The genetic engineering of crops and food-producing animals can produce toxic and allergic reactions in humans. ... In addition, genetic engineers can take proteins from bacteria they find in the soil, the ocean, anywhere, and incorporate them into human food chain. ... Genetically engineered products many times show that they are unsafe...

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9. GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS: THE NEMESIS OF GREEN REVOLUTION AGRICULTURE

For the purpose of this paper, genetically modified or engineered foods and its effects will be the core issue. Consumers in many European countries, Japan, and parts of the US have resisted consumption of genetically engineered foods pending further research into their effects. ... Genetically engineered foods are the single most important advance to come out of the Green Revolution. ... The food industry estimates that more than 60% of all non-organic processed foods sold in the U.S. supermarkets contain genetically engineered ingredients. ... Genetically engineered crops are having a ...

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