How harmful is Genetic Engineering?
About food:
GE crops could produce new allergens in foods, which sensitive persons would not know to avoid. For instance, a gene for one of the many allergenic proteins found in milk might be transferred into vegetables such as carrots. A mother who knows better than to give her sensitive child milk would not realize that she needed to avoid GE carrots with the allergenic milk protein. This problem is unique to GE, because it alone can transfer proteins to completely unrelated species—often from organisms that have never been consumed as foods.
About medical treatment:
Most genetically engineered plant foods carry fully functioning antibiotic-resistance genes, which are used as "selectable markers" early in the engineering process, helping to select cells that have taken up the foreign genes. Such genes could have two harmful effects. First, eating these foods could reduce the effectiveness of antibiotics to fight disease if the antibiotics are taken at the same time as the foods. Second, the resistance genes could be transferred to human or animal pathogens, making them impervious to antibiotics—an effect that has already been demonstrated experimentally in the human digestive system.
Conclusion:China's arable land accounts for 7% of the world, have to feed accounted for 22% of the world's people, genetically modified foods to provide a lot of help. The dangers of genetically modified food has never eliminated, and hope that the government and entrepreneurs to take into account people's health problems in the use of transgenic technology.
About food:
GE crops could produce new allergens in foods, which sensitive persons would not know to avoid. For instance, a gene for one of the many allergenic proteins found in milk might be transferred into vegetables such as carrots. A mother who knows better than to give her sensitive child milk would not realize that she needed to avoid GE carrots with the allergenic milk protein. This problem is unique to GE, because it alone can transfer proteins to completely unrelated species—often from organisms that have never been consumed as foods.
About medical treatment:
Most genetically engineered plant foods carry fully functioning antibiotic-resistance genes, which are used as "selectable markers" early in the engineering process, helping to select cells that have taken up the foreign genes. Such genes could have two harmful effects. First, eating these foods could reduce the effectiveness of antibiotics to fight disease if the antibiotics are taken at the same time as the foods. Second, the resistance genes could be transferred to human or animal pathogens, making them impervious to antibiotics—an effect that has already been demonstrated experimentally in the human digestive system.
Conclusion:China's arable land accounts for 7% of the world, have to feed accounted for 22% of the world's people, genetically modified foods to provide a lot of help. The dangers of genetically modified food has never eliminated, and hope that the government and entrepreneurs to take into account people's health problems in the use of transgenic technology.
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