Genetic_Engineering

Genetic Engineering HUMAN AWARENESS ESSAY. Genetically modified crops are not a good idea in society as they pose too many health risks among our society. My essay looks at the positive and negative impacts that genetically modifying foods would bring to us. My articles all clearly present the danger of this certain process and I found it very difficult to discover articles that agreed that genetically modifying foods was a good idea. Are genetically modified crops and foods a good idea to introduce into society or is it too risky' My Article - “Consequences of the Puszai study.” - Jill Davies - 23/3/99. The writer in this particular article is recounting a study performed to test a genetically modified food (potato in this case) on rats to see what happens. The product being used was a potato which had been engineered to express an insecticidal compound (lectin) from the snow drop plant. He then evaluated their metabolism and organ development. The “results astonished the scientist Dr Arpad Puszai”. He was unaware that this lectin was toxic to mammals and had used it previously without this knowledge. Certain parts of the rats insides had been reduced in size such as the: intestine, pancreas, kidneys, liver, lungs and brain. genetic, manipulation, genetically, modified, one, foods, dna, species, modifying, food, crops, risks, organisms, health, certain, been, techniques, society, safe, product, problems, idea, good, consumers, believe, article, transfer, traits, technology, scientists, result, rats, products, plants, perhaps, just, growing, genes, established, development, breeding, because, about, writer, world’s, very, thought, study, size