Everyone wants to make easy money but it should not be at the cost of the health of our people. “Health is wealth” and “Sickness is a disease.” We always eat nutritious food in order to stay healthy and fit but how nutritious is it? Technology has advanced so much that foods are being genetically modified to increase production and to attract consumers. Now, do we really know how healthy and nourishing this food is? It’s high time we open our eyes because there are some things that our naked eyes get deceived of—genetically modified foods have a harmful outcome on our body. A research is going on in this topic and negative results are expected.
Genetically modified foods or GM as they are called are generally used to indicate the crop plants that have been created for human or animal consumption with the aid of latest biological procedures. These plants are modified and sometimes crossbred with other species to produce required traits as good production and most importantly strong resistance to herbicides. However, Breeding could be time taking and as a remedy for this problem a new branch of scienc
Genetically Modified foods. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. April 2000
e called genetic engineering has been introduced to generate plants with the precise wanted traits. In addition to this, it also helps in making this process much faster and with much more accuracy than the traditional way of crossbreeding. For example, there is the process of separating a gene that is responsible for drought tolerance and inserting into a different plant that would give it the same trait. Moreover, the gene could be also taken from non-plant organisms. For instance, a naturally occurring bacterium commonly known as the B.T. or scientifically known as the Bacillus Thuringiensis manufactures crystal-shaped proteins that kill insect larvae.
What are the dangers? Mothers for Natural Law. July 1996
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