Genetically Modified Food
Genetically modified foods are the plants that are modified in the laboratory through procedures of improving their nutritious picture and developing the new and improved species of food that people will later consume. People have been doing this for ages by natural ways of plant selection and natural matching of different kinds of plants, for example creating new kind of wine grapes by matching two kinds to get a new one. This was all done in a natural way and by natural processes of growth and adjustment of plants. But today technology has gone further and we have started modifying our food in the laboratory by matching plant genes with animal genes, growth hormones, vitamins and other plants. Newly modified food is resistant to all kinds of natural processes (floods, insects), it is "more nutritious" and we can produce it, regardless of the kind of soil because of its modifications that benefit the growth and development of the plants. All those things people and companies are doing to improve their production and automatically to increase their profits. Should we care about this or not? In my opinion we should.
For example, plant geneticists can isolate a gene responsible for drought tolerance and insert that gene into a different plant. One other example is B.T. corn which produces proteins that rejects insects that attack the plant. In that way the plant produces its own pesticide protection against insects. These kinds of food are already on the market, some countries have restrictions on the import of these items, but other countries like U.S. are putting a lot of pressure on the countries that still resist from consuming them and it is becoming harder to avoid such foods. The question raising is how people c ...