... Safety). For over two centuries the U.S. government and the U.S. Patent Office classified life forms as a product of nature and therefore excluded them from patent laws. The introduction of the Plant Patent Act of 1930 changed all of this and agricultural patenting of seeds became permissible. In 1980, a revolutionary decision changed this one step further after the ruling of the landmark ... modified (GM) seeds are currently used for production of agricultural crops and a significant step forward in the agricultural industry. GM seeds are seeds that have been modified to contain certain...

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... to the indiscriminate use of the weed killer on biologically immune seeds (Bohn, Traavik, et al., 2013). The effect GM crops have had on the environment and organic forms of plant life has been another subject of concern in the field. The problem of GM contamination has been registered since 1997, with approximately 396 incidents recorded in 63 countries since then ... of the Monarch Butterfly would also require attention, as this may be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the side effects of crops modified with pesticide characteristics. My hypothesis on GMO foods is that a bo...

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