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Genetically Modified Products in Our Life The last century was a time of big changes in genetic engineering. Humanity made huge steps toward creating new life. Experiments with creating human were not successful, but the whole world was watching the experiment with sheep Dooley, which became first cloned animal. It was first such a big succeeded experiment and as a result almost everyone knew the last news about the sheep. However a big achievement was made in modifying new plants and crops. In the 21st century genetically modified products already became a part of our life. Every day new genetic products appear in shops and it becomes harder to find healthy food which does not contain any added chemical components. Apples during the winter time, oranges which become ripe twice faster than their period of ripening and tomato bushes which can survive very cold weather prove that biological world had experienced a lot of changes. Experiments are being made, new plants are being produced for a quite a long period of time, however genetically modified products is one of the hotly debatable topics today. There are two different opinions about the effects of genetically modified food on human life. "There is a greater deal of uncertainty about what the truth and the facts really are," says Michael Meacher, Environment Minister of Great Britain (ESRC par.5). The first group of people claim that genetic engineering is the biggest and the most profitable inventory for human life and that it brings and will bring only goodness for people. However, some people argue that genetic engineering affects humans life only negatively and it will bring much more harm to people than good. Although many scientific reports about the profitability and usefulness of genetically modified products were written, genetically modified food should not be introduced into the humanity life, because bioengineering is new technology and no one can know how changes made by people in crops will


Cited: BBC news. "GM Food." BBC 26 Oct. 2002, BBC news. < http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/genes/gm_genie/index.shtml/> ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme (1999) The politics of GM food: Risk, Science and Public Trust, Special Briefing No 5. University of Sussex. Frances Moore, Joseph Collins, Cary Fowler
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