GM food, being a controversial topic, used to hit the headlines as often as IT and other hit issues before the Iraqi war. More often than not, the controversy revolves about should the world adopt GM food or crops as the future staple food. Many of the opposition have contended that this should not be sanctions due to the potential risk involved in consumption etc. Personally, I am more or less inclined with this opinion too.
The most commonly cited argument to favour the cultivation of GM food is that this engenders greater profit for the farmer and may have the potential to redress the pertinent food shortage problem haunting the world. This is vital in the world in view of the statistics which spelt out in black and white that the majority of the world residents live in Third World nations and the world¡¯s most ¡®popular¡¯ occupation is being a farmer. In the case of Bt Corn which can produce its own insecticide, it saved the farmers the scarce resources they possess and increases yield
We should avoid consumption(thus cultivation) of GM food due to the potential dangers involved. Being a nascent science, nobody could possibly envisage the risk involved. Did not we proclaim feeding cows with feeds derived from animal bone marrow safe? But in the end, it gave rise to one of the most lethal disease in human history¡ªmad cow disease. With insufficient experiments conducted in this limited time frame, only the God know what is the long term consequence. Back to the case of Bt Corn, we are also unable to ascertain whether the ¡®insecticide¡¯ gene inserted will make the corn vulnerable to certain kind of virus.
The employment of GM technique may drive another divide between the have and the have not. ¡°Good things never come cheap¡±, this axiom is certainly pandemic. In fact, those high yielding seeds used in the Green Revolution are far more expensive than the ordinary ones. More often than not, only farmers in developed nations have the financial means to harness this te
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