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Genetically Modified Food I bet you have noticed the T.V people and reporters talk about the genetically modified food that has arisen! Our Government held 3 meetings, and we finally get to learn about one. GM or the term GMO (Genetically-Modified organisms)have been created for the consumption of humans and animals using the latest Biology techniques. They were made in a laboratory to enhance their feature of pesticides and their nutritional content. The traditional way of making the plants they would breed them but they would NOT be very accurate and was also time consuming, but genetic engineering on the other hand can make the plants in a shorter amount of time, they are more accurate, and they can have the desired trait that the scientists wanted.

There are good and bad things about genetically altering food, a good reason is the pest resistance that is has, it has a less likely chance of getting attacked or even eaten by bugs. It has herbicide tolerance, for example, when a farmer is tilling is field or tending to it, he usually spreads a very heavy agent to get rid of the weeds that could potentially kill his crops, and instead of killing the crops it just kills the weeds.

Some bad points are that kid these days have a much higher rate of being allergic to peanuts and other things, they get these life threatening illnesses and their bodies can't fight them off. Researchers think that introducing these genes from these foreign places will have a negative affect on the human populations today, you have to build up a tolerance to anything that you use or might come into contact with, but on the whole scientists do not believe, with the exception of possible allergenic properties, that these foods do not present a risk to humans.

Labeling these foods is a different story, they haven't found a good way to label these foods, thy believe that the labeling should be voluntary and influenced by the free market. There has been many questions to as if labeling the GM foods will become mandatory, and knowing the history and background of all this, people don't really label things like they should. Also cross contamination of non-GM foods and GM foods presents a 1% chance that this will happen. More than 130 countries, including the U.S have the highest rate for producing GM products.

In conclusion, you must know that even though these foods have a great percentage rate of helping others, it also has a high percentage rate of people not wanting to have this. While most people think that it has harm, it actually presents no risk to humans. and labeling will be a big deal when presenting this to the public, when we all find out that what we eat is mostly Genetically altered, people would be shocked. We as people have the right to know what we are eating!