GM Food

It's happening so fast that most of us can't take it all in. Familiar foods as diverse as bread. tomato puree, ham, cheese, soup and biscuits may have been altered in an invisible way using a new technology.

Genetically engineered foods look and taste just like the foods we've always eaten, but have been scientifically modified for 'improvement'.

Should we be delighted or worried? The people of genetically engineered food hail it as a fabulous development which could bring untold benefits. Some see it as an untested technology careering out of control which could have disastrous and irreversible consequences. Whom should we believe?

Simply put, genetically engineered foods are different to conventional ones because scientists have taken genetic material (DNA) from one species and transferred it into another. This enables the transfer of a desired characteristic between unrelated species, or between plants and animals.

For example, an 'antifreeze' gene which appears naturally in Arctic fish has been introduced into tomatoes and strawberries, thus making them freeze resistant; and pigs have been genetically engineered with a human gene introduced to make them grow more effectively. Why ? Big money to be made, shame its not used in the less well off countries who are dying of starvation

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