How do Genetically Modified Foods have an impact on 3rd World Countries?
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The reason that genetically engineered food could be dangerous is because there has been no adequate testing to ensure that extracting genes that perform an apparently useful function as part of that plant or animal is going to have the same effects if inserted into a totally unrelated species. It may be that in the long term, genetically modified food could provide us with benefits and be a safe alternative, but we cannot know that at this time due to the lack of safety testing.\n\nThe testing that has been done is often to ensure the crop grows. There has been less emphasis on testing the effects or testing the wider ecology and the associated impacts.
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First, I'd be wary of vaccines!!! \n 2nd, there are some very learned men that know that the most important part of health is the health of the body - not the virulence of the germs. Feed them healthy foods and get to know what is IN the food and look into the dangers of genetically modified foods. \n 3rd, get them involved in their own health and let them know it will some day be their full responsibility.
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Genetic engineering can, indeed solve many health and ecological issues such as preventing diseases involved in transcription, etc. and increasing crop yield.  Whether or not it's the hope of the future is unique to each person.
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~ genetic engineering of food, especially for third world countries, and replacing lost vitamins, minerals, etc.\n~ DNA fingerprinting, DNA polymerase, for crime scene investigations\n~ Scientists are now able to clone virtually anything to improve the desired characteristics. For example, genetically engineered animals like pigs are now being tried out to include omega 3 fatty acids for all those meat lovers. (Pigs have more omega 6 fatty acids originally.)\n~ There are so many more values of genetic engineering. You need to do some research on this. Try looking on the web, or in your school textbook (i.e. Biotechnology Unit). It is a hotly debated topic, so its scope is extremely wide. \nGood luck!!! :)\n\n*ANON*
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There have been a number of ecological problems cause when existing species are moved out of their natural habitat. The jackrabbits in Australia is one example.\n\nGenetically engineered species could have the same effect. If you accidentally introduce what is essentially a new species into an ecosystem, the results could be disastrous.\n\nNote: Genetic engineering efforts tend to be concentrated on domestic animals and plants.  You are unlikely to have to worry about dairy cattle escaping into the wilds.\n\nAnother problem is that bioengineered food may pose a problem for people with food allergies.  If, for example, peanut genes are spliced into some other food plant in an attempt to make it better, eating it could possibly affect people who are allergic to peanuts.  It could become hard to tell what foods would be safe for them to eat.
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http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/X6541E/X6541E02.htm\n\ntry it....
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Biotechnology is a technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. Biotechnology can also be defined as the manipulation of organisms to do practical things and to provide useful products.One section of biotechnology is the directed use of organisms for the manufacture of products. There are also applications of biotechnology that do not use living organisms. Modern biotechnology is often associated with the use of genetically altered microorganisms such as E. coli or yeast for the production of substances like insulin or antibiotics. It can also refer to transgenic animals or transgenic plants, such as Bt corn. Genetically altered mammalian cells, such as Chinese Hamster Ovarian (CHO) cells, are also widely used to manufacture pharmaceuticals. Another promising new biotechnology application is the development of plant-made pharmaceuticals. Biotechnology is also commonly associated with breakthroughs in new medical therapies and diagnostic devices.
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That refers, I believe, to genetic modification of foods.  Some people labled these as "Frankenfoods" (take off of the Frankenstein monster) to symbolize what happens when science tries to modify things.\nSomehow, they think that modified corn...which now grows twice as fast and has more nutrients in it...will harm us.  Instead of realizing that we can feed twice as many people, and feed the hungry all over the world, they just stick their fingers in their ears and become afraid of science, afraid of change.
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No, as the name suggests, it is genetically modified.  It has been through so much chemicals that its hard to tell if you will get essential nutrients out of it at all.  Maybe some kind of sickness if exposure will be for a long period of time.  Also, many farmers of organic products, like in India, are losing their only source of livelihood to these giant manufacturers of genetically modified foods, hence, it will be a nightmare in the future if all of what we eat are no longer produced naturally, but are made synthetically!!!
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Well the BBC tells us, in the UK scientists have applied for permission to create embryos by fusing human DNA with cow eggs.   That's interesting.\n   National Public Radio has an interesting article on the value of pomegranates, in which I learned new data.  NPR's All Things Considered program had an article called "Does Red Wine Fuel the Fountain of Youth?"  regarding testing wine consumption on mice.\n  The way sunshine changes human's lives is a subject newsworthy as well as well documented.  SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) affects a huge population and is especially newsworthy now due to the change from daylight savings time.  I've attached a link from the National Mental Health Association, but a dogpile.com search brought up lots of credible sources.  Good luck - if you have internet or library access you have the path to a paper with "Excellent" written in red across the top!
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moratorium on geEnvironmentalists and food security activists in India have renewed calls for a moratorium on genetically modified (GM) foods and crops after rats reportedly secretly tested with GM corn diets by the U.S. agribusiness and biotech giant Monsanto developed blood and organ abnormalities. its taotally banon GM  food
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try this: http://www.fao.org/docrep/T0115E/T0115E0j.htm
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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.
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Monsanto the chemical manufacturer (makes Roundup) is # 1 in developing GMOs. There are a lot of websites to look at but I recommend www.organicconsumers.org or www.slowfood.com . I am a chef who uses organic foods to produce healthy gourmet products and learned alot just trying to shop for non-GMO foods. We owe it to ourselves not to purchase foods from grocers and restaurants that are GMOs. I'll bet they do not even know what there products are made from. Patronize farmers markets, natural food stores etc. that provide you with healthy foods. You will be amazed at how delicious real food is.
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Advantages is that they produce more food, therefore feeding more people, especially for those countries in need.\n\nHowever, they are genetically modified and some people are afraid of gm foods.
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look at the health and economic impacts of fast food, and subsequent growth ot of western culture to otherwise unreachable areas (mcdonalds behind the "iron curtain", starbucks in the forbidden city, etc.) dont write about fast food per se, write about the impact of the idea.
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People have been manipulating the genetic makeup of all kinds of species for a long time.  Until recently, they have had to make do with regular sexual reproduction to breed into a species the qualities they value.  Lately, they can alter the genes in a lab.\n\nThis has good consequences, and could have bad ones.  But it is not different from what they have always done.\n\nWhy does no one complain people are playing god when they change the course of rivers to suit themselves, drain swamps to get rid of disease carrying bugs or to build condos on, and so on.\n\nRecently, science has genetically engineered a strain of rice that makes Vitamin A for use in South Asia, particularly India, because there is so little of the vitamin in people's diet that children are being born blind.\nI don't think any god would mind, really, do you?