Genetically Modified Food
Genetically modified food
You are what you eat, and eating genetically modified food can harm your body. We are now living in an era where we tend to change everything to make it “better”, but eating genetically mutated food is not always the best option for everyone. Injecting hormones to the food that you eat everyday is bad for you because it affects 3 main aspects; health, environmental and economic.
First of all I’ll start by informing you what genetically modified food really is.
Genetically modified foods are those that come from an animal or vegetable origin that its genetic and chemical composition has been manipulated to increase its nutritional power or by making them more resistant to plagues. “GM foods are the ones that have been artificially changed by scientists in a laboratory.”
The first GM for humans to eat was created on May 18, 1994, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of The United States authorized the commercialization of the first food with a "strange" gene, the modified food, created by a Californian company had the characteristic of having a retarded cycle of blossom.
With this new technique of genetically modified food, scientists have achieved food to have certain characteristics. For example: plagues, herbicides and high temperature resistant, change in color and seedless food.
“The first GM for humans to eat was created on May 18, 1994”, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of The United States authorized the commercialization of the first food with a "strange" gene, the modified food, created by a Californian company had the characteristic of having a retarded cycle of blossom.
At the moment, the most common mutated foods are vegetables and fruits, and the most consumed by the people. Some examples of these can be: corn, tomatoes, potatoes, lemons, lettuce and more.
Some reasons of why scientists think that mutated food is good for you may be
Like almost everything, GM has its advantages and
You are what you eat, and eating genetically modified food can harm your body. We are now living in an era where we tend to change everything to make it “better”, but eating genetically mutated food is not always the best option for everyone. Injecting hormones to the food that you eat everyday is bad for you because it affects 3 main aspects; health, environmental and economic.
First of all I’ll start by informing you what genetically modified food really is.
Genetically modified foods are those that come from an animal or vegetable origin that its genetic and chemical composition has been manipulated to increase its nutritional power or by making them more resistant to plagues. “GM foods are the ones that have been artificially changed by scientists in a laboratory.”
The first GM for humans to eat was created on May 18, 1994, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of The United States authorized the commercialization of the first food with a "strange" gene, the modified food, created by a Californian company had the characteristic of having a retarded cycle of blossom.
With this new technique of genetically modified food, scientists have achieved food to have certain characteristics. For example: plagues, herbicides and high temperature resistant, change in color and seedless food.
“The first GM for humans to eat was created on May 18, 1994”, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of The United States authorized the commercialization of the first food with a "strange" gene, the modified food, created by a Californian company had the characteristic of having a retarded cycle of blossom.
At the moment, the most common mutated foods are vegetables and fruits, and the most consumed by the people. Some examples of these can be: corn, tomatoes, potatoes, lemons, lettuce and more.
Some reasons of why scientists think that mutated food is good for you may be
Like almost everything, GM has its advantages and
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