THW Ban Genetically Enginereed Foods

How terrible corn BT: taste nice, good shape, the results abundant harvest, age of the plant, and pest resistant. To this last one is really special. Pests do not want to disrupt the the plant is corn and fruit. If there is interruption, the pest will death by itself.

Secret of the magic that lies in the corn BT, namely Bacillus Thuringiensis. BT is a bacteria that has been modified to the genetic network in the cell so that the corn crops that can produce substances toxic to pests and resistant to bad environmental conditions. Thanks to the BT that is, the genetic engineering of corn is quite attractived to farmers. Pesticides are quite expensive, if not longer required BT corn planting. Hence, the cost of planting is also economically friendly. Again Also, do not contaminate the environment.

The success of creating transgenic BT corn, followed with the creation of another plant genetic engineering. Now, there are cotton, soybean, wheat, and others. If farmers plant seeds BT, the world will undoubtedly fully with food and no longer environmental pollution due to pesticides.

At this time, we realize or not, we may also have BT consume the food. Eg corn and soybeans that imported from the U.S.. Perhaps, where we also are eaten, the beans derived from genetic engineering with the BT line.

Well, if we have consume them, then we do not feel modern after taste of food of modern. The problem is, when food is still so controversial. The controversy spreads, for several reasons.

First, does this transgenic food is healthy? A report says, dozens of people in the world died after consume protein transgenil (L-Tryptophan) in North America in 1999. Some people are allergic of protein transgenic line. That case, then trigger concerns the emergence of the human food results transgenic plants.

In Europe and Australia, for example, show strong reaction by society against transgenic foods from the U.S. European consumers prefer the original natural food and requires every food product from the U.S. must have a label transgenic food''not''. Due to the reaction, the food transgenic market does not get in developed countries. then, as usual, to solve, even producers export them to developing countries such as Indonesia. In the U.S. alone, and corn
transgenic soybean prices fell. Food companies do not want to again because the products do not use this behavior in the international market.

Indeed, there is no research, the extent to which corn and soybean BT is affecting health. But yet still human more trust the original natural foods which have property and benefits. Matter of food, people do not want to try. Too risky.

Second, whether the transgenic plants will improve the environment as free of pesticides? This also is. In the May 1999, reported that the stamen of BT corn cause the death of almost half a worm butterfly monarch who ate transgenic plants in the garden experiment Cornell University, New York. Tragically, experiment was conducted when the new BT corn has been planted knowledgeable in the U.S.. A quarter of U.S. corn in the millions of hectares BT corn is planted. Can be, how many types of species butterfly die if you ate this corn stamen.

Not only that. Any cross-pollination, will move gen-gen foreign to the other plants that like corn, such as weeds and the like. As a result, truly terrible: the weeds will difficult to be liquidated because herbicide-gen gennya already intterupted by BT. This means that weeds are threatening agriculture. Indeed pesticide is not used anymore, but weeds will become increasingly widespread because difficult be liquidated.

From the explanation, now the food of the transgenic plants that plumed genetic engineering experts are facing dilemma. On the one hand, to prove the scientist able to create new seeds that against the nature. On the other hand, feared that the products, also
nature against nature in the human body. The problem: where will the chosen people? Whether human want to select the technology progress, but let himself be covered cares? Or, select a human cooperation with nature so quiet life? That's human choice.../MrStanza