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GMC FoodsJuly 12, 2006
The last time you ate food, have you ever though about how it was made. Did you know that genetically processed food is possible? If you knew about it would you be concerned about the food you ate? Who wants to pay large amounts of cash to terminate genes? If the idea is to not come across these experiences, then genetically modified crops (GMC) is not the right path to take. Genetically modified crops may seem like a shortcut in solving environmental problems, but one wrong move can result in a multitude of setbacks.
Everyone thinks the process of transfusing genes into a plant is safe. But it isn't, it's a difficult process of injecting the plant with the promoter; because some of the DNA in the plants is active but most of them are inactive. Promoter help the genes that are being injected to go into the RNA protein so it can get reprogram. With using the promoter it can cause metabolic changes with the plant. This can activate the inactive DNA and make the plant release harmful
toxins. So right now the process of injecting the plant with other genes is unstable, and we still haven't figured out the side effects.
If the plants are able to get through the transfusion process they are turn into hybrids. They are considered plants that genetically modified to grow faster and produce more food. People are worried about how efficient the process is. With that super hybrids could be created through evolution and they could start growing in places which we don't want them to, and they will become a pest. On top of that it's possible for the plants to interbreed with weeds and create super weeds. The weed could be persistence or even resistant to pesticides.
There are ways to eliminate the problem of super hybrids. But the question is it worth it and can everyone afford it. It's called terminator gene they terminate themselves after a year. So every year farms have to buy seeds. In other countries in which they don't have money they can't purchase the seed every year and on top of that they don't have the genetic-engineering capabilities. It's not an environmental problem but indirectly it can affect total world food production, which later on will affect humans, because there might be a lack of food.
In the past, there have been various side effects, from tests intended for genetically modified crops, that resulted in allergic reactions when consuming the GM foods, hybrids grew rapidly, which made it hard to sustain, and money loss rose to play a huge factor. This process, genetically modified crops, is proven not to be 100% effective. Because of these negative effects, there have been scientists slowly emerging to the conclusion that they have doubts pertaining to this process. Even though GMC has created a shortcut in controlling the process on how plants grow and are produced, scientists tend to oversee and miss the little mistakes that soon lead to larger consequences. Why should we create tests and labs for GMC and apply it to crops, when it "might" have the capability to hurt us in the near future?
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