Why we Need Genetically Modified Food?
Population of Human being increase rapidly world wide. We need more food to feed everybody to stop hunger world wide.
Our resources that is land and water are not sufficient enough to produced enough food. Without the Use Of Genetic Engineering It is impossible.
Climate change Throughout the world decrease corp production.
Due to climate change in some areas temperature increases and in some places wetter condition that diseases corp production. Drought and Storm all this decrease Storm production. So to cope with this unpredictable weather condition we need genetically modified food that can be produced with higher yield on extreme weather production.We need only six month to produced genetically modified seeds.
What is Genetically Modified Food:
Genetically modified Foods produces by the use Gene technology or DNA technology in which we altered genetic material of corps and make its better. With this Gene technology we can produced different variety of seeds According To our Need.
We translate old corps to new type of corps so that it produces higher and production cost is low and nutrition value increase.
Crop protection:
One of the objectives for developing plants based on GM organisms is to improve crop protection. The GM crops currently on the market are mainly aimed at an increased level of crop protection through the introduction of resistance against plant diseases caused by insects or viruses or through increased tolerance towards herbicide.
Resistance against insects is achieved by incorporating into the food plant the gene for toxin production from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).
GM crops require lower quantities of insecticides in specific situations.
Virus resistance is achieved through the introduction of a gene from certain viruses which cause disease in plants.
Virus resistance makes plants less susceptible to diseases caused by such viruses, resulting in higher crop yields.
Herbicide tolerance is achieved through the introduction of a gene from a bacterium conveying resistance to some herbicides.
Safety of GM Food:
Researcher through out the world including each and every country doing research
Before permitting GM Food in their respective country.
Mainly they are checking that 1) Toxicity of the food
- GM food are ellergic or not 3) Nutrition Value of GM Foods 4) Stability of the inserted gene 4) Any unwanted effect in human body with this GM food.
After Long Time Research World Health Organisation and many other Scientific organisation permitting GM Food For Consumption and Production.
Now GM Foods Are Future Of The World.
More Information:
Source:
http://www.who.int/foodsafety/areas_work/food-technology/faq-genetically-modified-food/en/