● Improve the nutritional value of agricultural products and produce food more quickly and efficiently.
● Using transgenic methods to change the genetic information of organisms and assemble new genes, so that future crops have the characteristics of high nutrition, storage resistance, pest resistance and herbicide resistance.
Disadvantages of genetically modified food:
● Genetically modified crops themselves may become weeds.
● Related wild species of transgenic crops become weeds or super weeds.
● Genetically modified crops may produce new virus diseases.
● Harm of genetically modified crops to non-target organisms
● Destroy biodiversity.
● Effects of genetically modified crops on ecosystems and ecological processes
● Other unpredictable risks.
● Exogenous genes introduced by genetically modified organisms can often express protein, which may cause changes in the metabolism and nutritional composition of organisms.
Professor Pupitai of Aberdeen Rot Research Institute in the United Kingdom found in his research that young mice will damage their internal organs and immune system after eating genetically modified potatoes. This has aroused great concern in the scientific community. Then, the Royal Society reviewed the report and announced in May 1999 that the study was "full of loopholes".
Irina, a world-renowned expert on anti-food genetically modified products and a Russian biologist who was elected as the vice chairman of the Russian National Association for Genetic Safety Research at the end of 2006? Makova, in 2005, began to study the health status of mice after eating genetically modified food, and found that genetically modified food affected the health of mice and their offspring. This study provides strong evidence that genetically modified foods may have some negative effects on living animals. According to Elena? According to Dr. ermakova's experimental data, when mice were fed with genetically modified soybeans two weeks before mating and during pregnancy, more than half of the mice died shortly after birth, and 40% of the surviving mice grew very slowly, and their bodies were smaller than those of mice not fed with genetically modified soybeans. At the same time, it was found that the symptoms of aggression and anxiety of mothers and young mice fed with genetically modified food increased, and some mothers no longer had maternal instinct.
Russian biologist Irina? Makova's experiment in 2005 further proved that Professor Pupitai's findings at the Aberdeen Roth Institute (1998) in the UK were true and credible.
What is genetically modified food? It means that scientists change the genes of animals and plants in the laboratory and then create new foods with new characteristics. For example, an antifreeze gene of marine fish growing in the Arctic is added to ordinary tomatoes, so that tomatoes can be preserved for a longer time in winter, thus greatly extending the shelf life. Is genetically modified food good? What are the advantages and disadvantages? People have two different views on genetically modified food. One is that the progress of science and technology can greatly improve our living standards, and the other is that genetically modified foods can produce unexpected poisoning or allergic reactions.