What are the pros and cons of genetically engineered food?
The most widely accepted answers to that are: Benefits: Food could be engineered to be more nutritional (i.e. provide additional vitamins, etc). Genetically engineered food could be “built in” with pesticides. This would eliminate the need for conventional pesticide practices. Crops could be engineered to grow in harsher conditions such as desert conditions, poor soil, etc. Genetic engineering can help to fight diseases common in different types of food. For example, a few years back, papayas were dying due to a disease. If it weren’t for transgenic engineering, there might be no papayas left today. Cons: People are unsure as to what the consequences of GMOs might be, because the theorie has been unproved so far. Here is what some people are saying: It could have negative health effects. For example, if you took a gene that a peanut had that allowed it to do better in poorer soil, and placed that gene in corn, if someone consumed that corn that had a peanut allergy, would the genetic e
