With the exponential increase in world population it has become necessary to use GM foods to ensure survival. There are a number of advantages of using GM crops to ensure nutrition. GM foods can be customized to prevent the attack of pests and this would ensure minimal or zero usage of pesticide. This would help in reducing pollution. GM crops can provide multiple nutrients from the same crop which would assist to deliver all necessary nutrients for the human body from the same plant. GM crops plantation ensure optimum usage of resources and maintaining ecological balance. With the advent of technology, genetic make up of various crops can be positively reconstructed to provide immunity from various diseases. Even though modified plants have a multitude of advantages there are a set of cons which need to be discussed. Restructuring the genetic make up of plants may result in the extinction of the original plant. Domination of modified plants would result in entire families of plants being wiped out from the planet and may cause serious threat to the environment. Intellectual property rights and patents would prevent farmers across the world access to cultivating GM crops and this would result in a divide. There is another hidden risk in consuming GM crops as the modified genetic structure of the plant may communicate negatively with the human body which may prove fatal.
With the exponential increase in world population it has become necessary to
use
GM foods to
ensure
survival. There are a number of advantages of using GM
crops
to
ensure
nutrition. GM foods can
be customized
to
prevent
the attack of pests and this would
ensure
minimal or zero usage of pesticide. This would
help
in reducing pollution. GM
crops
can provide multiple nutrients from the same
crop
which would assist to deliver all necessary nutrients for the human body from the same
plant
. GM
crops
plantation
ensure
optimum usage of resources and maintaining ecological balance. With the advent of technology, genetic
make
up of various
crops
can be
positively
reconstructed to provide immunity from various diseases.
Even though
modified
plants
have a multitude of advantages there are a set of cons which need to
be discussed
. Restructuring the genetic
make
up of
plants
may result in the extinction of the original
plant
. Domination of modified
plants
would result in entire families of
plants
being wiped
out from the planet and may cause serious threat to the environment. Intellectual property rights and patents would
prevent
farmers across the world access to cultivating GM
crops
and this would result in a divide. There is another hidden
risk
in consuming GM
crops
as the modified genetic structure of the
plant
may communicate
negatively
with the human body which may prove fatal.