In Africa every 1 person in 5 is struggling with chronic hunger resulting in several furthermore disease of protein deficiency caused marasmus. In our new world, people are also suffering in big term starvation due to political and economical reasons that people are put into and assessed as if they should obey what they cannot choose. The idea of genetically modified crops is being tested and has been a huge topic on the table for discussing along multiple years starting first from 2011 when Greenpeace protestors broke into an experimental farm of CSIRO, an Australian federal government agency for scientific research, and destroyed genetically modified crops.
GMO is a way of altering DNA of the plant. There’s a big chance that you have eaten a modified food in your lunch. And GMO is much cheaper than normal breeding of seeds. Although the process is complex, it requires 4 steps where at first scientist identify the genes of plant that cause specific traits, such as resistance to insects, they then take the copy of insect resistance cells in a lab, that gene is inserted to another plan’s cell that will have a new trait of resisting insects. That way, fewer pesticides are used and the lab process is cheap enough as it benefits from the time taken meaning also faster the exportation and selling in the market. These modified cross breed genes may have more nutrients than a normal plant has. At first, every company of cultivation started using GMO because the nutrient abundances were much appealing than normal crops including 2 times as much folate when compared to traditional crops, 6 times as much vitamin C when compared to other crops, 169 times more beta-carotene than other crops. As a big perspective on the topic I would say before explaining the cones that pros are much desirable because I think accessible source of food is in short storage and if farmers in Africa and other three big famine countries: Madagascar, Africa and Yemen, the reclamation and required study for crop breeding in lab medium can be taken place of education sites.
However, GMO also has cones which are allergic reactions because GMO is a syringed form of DNA inserted into another plant and fair enough said to be harmful and a stranger for our body mechanism to accept and digest at the first place, especially if we have other chronic disease or endocrine gland related problems such as nodules or other reactions the body normally responds to as unveiling nevus, pimple or edema that also should be taken seriously and consulted to a doctor, because more than 50 percent of the corns consist GMO. In one instance, a GMO soybean crop created using DNA from a Brazil nut redounded back on allergenic reactions in people who have nut allergy. But GMO go through a compensatory process of allergen testing, so be sure of reading the content of food of GMO that you are buying and see if there are certified food license confirming certificate. There is a new concern not being confirmed and allegedly is spread on right now. Scientists say that when GMO is being inserted, there will also be a resistant to antibiotic components to kill the plant using antibiotic attack system if the process wasn’t successful, some researchers assume this anti-antibiotic gene can also remain its effectiveness in our feces and directly through the sewage system where bacterias are present and can absorb the genes causing staph infections.
To my opinion, risks of having a detrimental side effect of a GMO food is really low due to high required test protection, and gene transfer from plant to human is very unlikely. I believe in developing more powerful GMO fields in industry rather than eradicating it, as it seems a sustainable way of thriving. Though there are possible risks, Drug Administration and US Agency tightly regulate GMO foods.