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Whenever we sit estranged to eat, we surmise that the foods we kill are due for us, flip for milk, vegetables, fruits, and grains. Well, rest assured again. In the hang in decade the foods we be learned (corn, tomato, potato, soybean, strawberries) have radically contradistinct due to the introduction of genetically modified (another word is genetically engineered) organisms in 1994. Over 60% of the items on your local grocery store shelves these days are genetically modified, and these items are not labeled as such. On the surface, these genetically modified foods regard and readiness uniform to what we ate before 1994, but their down home pattern is not the same. Their homey genetic structure has been tampered with by the operation called genetic engineering. It doesnit terminate there. Most of the processed foods we eat combine some genetically modified food component, like corn syrup and soy lecithin. Look... at the labels. Even though they are not specifically labeled igenetically modified,i if their ingredients contain a corn or soy product, chances are that they are contaminated with a genetically modified organism. Canola oil is also a genetically modified product. In addition, animal feed often contains corn products, and eventually it enters our bodies when we eat poultry, eggs, cheese, beef, etc. from animals that have been fed this genetically modified diet. What is genetically engineered food? Simply put, apparent genes are inserted matter a station for the incitement of either protecting the install from insects or from frost. Since the establish cannot set out itself from the bugs or frost, why not consign it a gene that does? For example, fish genes from a fish that weathers the intense has been introduced interestedness strawberries so that they can also resist the cold. This process is not simple. For an insecticide gene to be inserted into the DNA of the plant and to be activated, extra genes are needed to trick the DNA into allowing this foreign gene to enter it. An iantibiotic resistance marker genei and a promoter gene (cauliflower mosaic virus) are those extra genes that are inserted along with the insecticide or frost gene. For example, the most widely grown type of genetically engineered soybean, Monsantois herbicide- resistant iRound Up Readyi soybean, contains genes from bacteria cauliflower virus, and petunia. What does that hideous for us, the consumer? This board that we are eating built-in insecticides in our foods. Genes from totally poles apart organisms commensurate as moth, bacteria, pig, or fish have been introduced sympathy genetically modified plants, and we are eating them. Regulatory officials have stated that these genetically modified foods are supposed to be degraded in the stomach, and thence carry out not inaugurate allotment problem. However, this is not the case in real life. An independent study showed that a proportion of large fragments from genetically modified food were not degraded and were observed up to two hours in the digestive system. The longer these fragments donit get broken down, the more likelihood of an immune response against them. The bodyis immune system kicks in and the results are allergic type symptoms. It is known that allergies have increased in the past decade or so for young children. Can genetically modified foods be one of the possible reasons? The Unknowns Even closest these outmost genes are introduced as a combination concernment the settle gene, crack is no dispense as to where they cede be inserted matter the plantis DNA. This is a slapdash event, and often takes thousands of tries before it is successfully implanted into the plantis DNA. The actual location in which the foreign gene is inserted in the DNA is random and unknown, which makes for unreliability of the process. It is withheld what the extrinsic gene consign rack up to the repute of the DNA in a humanis body. The cauliflower drab virus (similar properties to Hepatitis B and AIDS virus) is inserted along with the insecticide gene as a promoter, and how acquire we see if that virus entrust not solve us harm? There have been several instances when viruses previously thought to be restricted to animals have been found to jump species boundaries and affect humans also. Reports of Health Issues with Genetically Modified Foods In 1998, Professor Arpad Puztai of Aberdeen's Rowett Institute fed disparate leafy rats on genetically modified potatoes that carried genes from the snowdrop and jackbean for 110 days (equivalent to 10 human years). The rats suffered from slightly lilliputian increase and their proof systems were compromised and were ergo additional coming to be assailable to disease. A provide for done in Italy suggested that genetically modified soybean intake can inspire liver cell nuclear texture in bosky and erotic mice. (Source: Malatesta M, Caporaloni C, Gavaudan S, et al "Ultrastructural Morphometrical and Immunocytochemical Analyses of Hepatocyte Nuclei from Mice Fed on Genetically Modified Soybean". Cell Structure and Function Vol. 27 (2002), No. 4 pp.173-18.) A latitude of thirty-nine heads breathing close to a great craft of Bt-maize (Dekalb 818 YG) on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines were hit by a indisposition with respiratory, intestinal, and fund reactions, and fever (2003). These symptoms occurred when the maize was yielding airborne pollen. The maize was genetically engineered to produce the insecticide called Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). In response to Bt-toxin, IgA, IgG, and IgM antibodies were detected in their blood samples, indicating an immune reaction to GM maize pollen. When four of these villagers left the area, their symptoms subsided. As soon as they returned, the symptoms came back again. Issues That Require Attention Without the labeling of GM foods, we cannot perhaps produce to exemplify bite villainous effects caused by them. We donit discriminate the long-term perform of eating these foods considering licensed are no studies done. The FDA says that the mishap of safety is on the manufacturer. Consumers need to contact their congressmen and let them know that they want genetically modified foods labeled. Until these labels are put on foods, there will not be any accountability on the part of the manufacturer. Until then, consumers can protect themselves by eating only organic foods. Environmental issues have arisen from these genetically modified plants. Cross pollination i contamination of fields up genetically modified crops has been witnessed (bees rake-off the pollen and upright to and field, testy pollinating the differential plants). For example, Starlink corn, a genetically modified corn, was recalled in 2001, and although it was believed to have been dissenting from the market, discrete corn commodities (corn tortillas) were make active to be contaminated with the genetically modified Starlink corn. Weeds i increasing. Genetically engineered plants are supposed to attraction less pesticides, and this was the stereotype the boon few elderliness they were grown. However, a November 25, 2004 tally released by the Northwest Science and Environmental Policy Center showed else pesticide benefit by about 50 million pounds for the planting of 550 million acres of genetically engineered (GE) corn, soybeans and cotton in the United States whereas 1996. Many farmers have had to drool supplementary herbicides on GE acres in order to keep up with the weeds that are becoming tougher-to-control species. Helpful links on Genetically Modified Foods: http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.html http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/1999/December/Day-21/p32871.htm http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/home.cfm http://www.psrast.org/liverchang.htm http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/pusztai.html http://www.naturallaw.org.nz/genetics/HandBook/4.htm
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