GMO's
For years our soil has provided us with a source of fuel for our bodies. Our plants grow from the nutrients in the soil, a lot of our soil has been over-cropped, and lacks the nutrients it had in the past. With the population growth over the years scientists have found a way to grow crops faster. The crops have also been modified genetically to be resistant to pests, the scientists who designed them claim that when the plants are resistant to insects, there's no need to use pesticides, and it prevents a large amount of chemicals from being used on our food. Current research has shown that cultivation of GMO herbicide resistant crops has lead to an increase in the amount of herbicide being used. Genetically modifying the plants that grow our food causes more problems than it fixes, if the plants become resistant to pests, than the pests become resistant to the plants countermeasures, thus causing farmers to be forced to use more harsh pesticides to kill the pests, and keep the crops safe. Several of our agriculture crops have been genetically modified. The variety of crops that have been modified include soy, and corn, two major farmed crops in the U.S. The main issue is that corn is the primary feed for our ranches.
There is some evidence physicians are concerned about in relation to GMO’s, increase in food allergies, some of these proteins have never been consumed by humans so the body could react with an immune response that could in turn be an allergy. There is concern about a decrease in nutritional value.
Another example comes from a study showing that a strain of genetically modified soybeans produced lower levels of phyto estrogen compounds, believed to protect against heart disease and cancer, than traditional soybeans (Bakshi, 2003).
Physicians have seen an alarming rate of increase in bacteria being resistant to antibiotics. The genetically modified plants are being modified with antibiotic resistant genes, so this might be being passed to humans, and causing the resistance to some strains of antibiotics.The FDA would like the bio technologist to start to phase out the use of the antibiotic strains.There can be an increase in toxins with cross breeding of plants.
There has been concern of GMO’s, and the environment, transfer of genes that are modified to another plant.Could insect resistant GMO’s also cause harm to the Monarch butterfly so far no evidence has been collected.
In conclusion to date we are in a wait, and see pattern in regards to GMO’s , it is too soon for all of the evidence to be calculated in regards to our agriculture, our health or insects like the monarch butterfly, and other animals in general. At this point scientists really can’t say, for me I would rather avoid this type of food, then find out later it is too late.
http://www.nongmoproject.org
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