Thursday, April 19, 2012

Genetically Modified Organisms: A Blessing or a Curse?

This article is about genetically changing organisms and the benefits and controversies. This article was very informing. I never actually thought about what would happen if we genetically altered our foods.  A very good point this article made was that this has not been going on long enough to know the long term effects to the human body, the environment, or the organisms being altered themselves.  The benefits are enhanced tasted, faster growing crops, and improved animal health. The controversies, though, I think outweigh the good.  This can create gene transfer, unintentional crossing of genes, and the worst being creating bacteria that are resistant to ALL antibiotics.  This article also shows that the United States produces 59% of the genetically modified foods.  So just think, what are we actually eating?

1 comment:

  1. Melanie, this needed to be a free choice post. Please redo and email to me...

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