The transgenic products are
the most common tomato, soybean and corn. In Spain it is estimated to be
cultivated over 70,000 hectares of genetically modified maize.
These products before exiting
the market pass rigorous tests and must be approved by various
agencies. In fact there is an international protocol established since the
WHO (World Health Organization).
Yes
Supporters of these products
claim that these foods will be the solution to combat pests and diseases
that are destroying crops and livestock. You can enter them in a gene that
makes them immune.
Come in these foods half to
finish against hunger, as they could cultivate plants in places where
until now never could. You can create crops resistant to more extreme weather
conditions.
The changes in the genes can
be introduced proteins in foods that were not, so the nutritional
contribution of the same could be increased dramatically.
His supporters also value
them as a means to end disease, because there are some plants that operate
such as malaria vaccines.
Contrary
The NGOs and other sectors
are opposed to these products because they say they do not know the real
impact that will have on the health and the Environment.
The fact that they are
resistant to certain insects and their causes death might, for example altering
the food chain to leave without food for the animals that nutrķan such
insects.
These cultured species pose a
large scale, according to them, a threat to biodiversity, as the less
profitable at risk of disappearing.
They insist the differences
between natural crossing between species long practiced by farmers and
the current process of genetic modification. The former was limited by the barriers
of nature and with the current system can even mix genes of plants
and animals.
They also allege that can
cause the emergence of new food allergies. It could also be that
inmunicen against the effects of certain medications such as antibiotics.
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