why are research doctors against genetically modified foods?
357062
Plants are modified to screw up the reproductive cycle, and the fear is that those genes will easily get transferred to other plant life resulting in a massive extinction..
934144
You could talk about Genetically Modified Foods (GMO) and microbiology, including whether it is good to add vitamins to rice and reduce our dependence on pesticides, or what impact does it have on 3rd world countries to sell seed that doesn't reproduce itself? Pick whether you think GMO is good or whether you want to argue against it. \n\nYou could talk about whether the use of stem cells is good or bad, including whether it could help cure disease and save lives or whether it kills life because it is from blasticists.  \n\nThere are so many topics to choose.  Choose one that is controversial and then persuade why it is good or bad.  Good luck to you!
689394
Doctors are trained and conditioned to ignore everything that does not align with the AMA agenda. No doctor who wants to practice medicine and continue getting patients is going to jeopardize their meal ticket. \n\nThey often use the argument that there is no studies proving ultrasounds are not safe. However, the absence of such studies does not automatically mean they are safe.
421995
Humans have bin genetically modifying food ever sints thy started to cultivate food.For example the Tomato, Corn,Peaches,Apricots,Squash,Cauliflower brocly,Cows, Sheep. Even your Dog and Cats.
61148
If a herbal medicine can pass the same trials regular medicines do, they will be accepted by the scientific community in the same way regular medicines are.\n\nThe "alternative health" community would have a lot to gain if their products went through trials, and were proven effective. In many cases, they are openly hostile to trials because they know their products do not work, and they are skirting around this with weasel words on their packaging like "thought to do X", or "has been used traditionally to do Y".\n\nScientists are not opposed to herbal medicine working, they are opposed to products which are not proven in trials to be effective being promoted as such, possibly directing people away from a treatment which is known to work.\n\nHerbalists often claim their products are safer. This is untrue, there have been dangerous products found on sale in herbal medicine shops, and natural doesn't mean safe.
656016
From the beef company... They bio-engineered the bird flu to make people scared of eating chicken.... They want to increase their share of the meat market....\n\n\nAt the same time, the chicken people (Tyson especially) is trying to come up with a cow flu to do the opposite... \n\nIt's a dangerous time to be a meat eater!!!
846423
It will take years of research before we know what dangers or ill effects genetically modified foods will have on us. But fear not research is being done ,its just to soon to tell.
188523
gmo's are plants (or animals none of those yet) that have had genetic material added to them. so what we have now is BT corn, BT soybeans, and the roundup ready series of crops.\nBT is named from bacillus family of bacteria which produce a natural insecticide so you dont have to spray for insects cutting down the need for poisons in the ground and air. and the roundup ready series is round up resistant so it is resistant to herbicides. so you can plant it and spray once for weeds and then you dont have to worry about it as round up is persistant in the soil. so there is less herbicide in the air and ground.\ncurrently the FDA has not released them into the human food supply however they are being used to feed animals. so technically you are eating them but it is technically biologically filter and i am not sure how wide spread the use is.\nthere is also a rice variety called golden rice. if your diet consists mainly of rice as in most asian countries you do not get enough vitamin E which can lead to blidness. so they added a gene to produce vitamin E it is not widely adopted. and zaire turned away a ship full of corn from the US because it contained GMO corn. so its still a vary hot issue and deserves some attention still.
868429
No, science cannot feed the world, we are already overpopulated and technology can only take us so far. There will always be starving countries unfortunately. All foods that we eat have been modified, and yes, despite scares genetically modified foods are generally ok.
978929
I suppose it's most frequently called genetic engineering, though people who are against such procedures call it, 'playing God'.  Foods that are modified in this way are referred to as 'genetically modified' and sometimes the process is called 'genetic transformation'.
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**********************************************************\n\nChicken. People are so health conscious these days. They don't eat as much red meat. Also, fast food restaurants serve engineered chicken, but their hamburgers have less beef in them than a meatball. Most of those hamburgers are really processed soybean.\n\n***********************************************************
798597
Great topic.. I personally LOVE genetics, and geneticists have come a loooooong way. Here's a few websites with good articles for you to read:\n\nhttp://archive.greenpeace.org/geneng/reports/food/intrfood.htm\n\nhttp://uk.encarta.msn.com/text_781566628___4/Genetic_Modification_of_Food.html\n\nhttp://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/835.php\n\nhttp://www.ifst.org/site/cms/contentChapterView.asp?chapter=1\n\nhttp://www.ourfood.com/Genetic_modification_food.html\n\n\nHope these help!
711961
Hi Genetic engineering is done with a purpose, for making human insulin by the use of bacteria for instance. Genetic modification can be caused by an errant cosmic ray.
50409
Research is funded mostly by private funding.  If it weren't competetive, the scientists wouldn't be pressured to produce.  The publish or perish serves as an important incentive to produce.  Unfortunately for the Korean scientist, it bit him where it counts.  His team tried to lie about their findings, probably to retain their funding.  Deadlines cause drastic actions sometimes.  Unfortunate, but necessary.
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are you talking about "transgenic crops"  or traditional breeding methods?\n\nGenetically Modified (GM) crops are typically transgenic.  This process involves taking genes from one species—an animal, plant, bacterium, or virus—and inserting them into another species, such as an agricultural crop.  \n\nTo find out more, go to the website below:
121557
Technically genetically modified food could do anything, very expensive and possibly a big waste of time, but in theory it probably could work
568827
people are full of themselves and its mostly just bable from the naturalists that hate synthetic stuff... one thing they say is it produces methanol but there is more methanol produced from eating a serving of green vegetables than drinking a can of pop with aspartame. also, there has never been a well conducted study to my knowledge that has shown it links it to cancer.\n\n...unless you have that phenylnuekotrina (i have no idea how to spell it) diease, the consensus of current research shows its safe