What are the benefits and risks of genetically modified crops?

Question

What are some of the rise and falls of genetically modified crops?

Answer 1

The benefits are whatever the promoters claim that they are.

There are two big areas of risk.

One is that they are adding genes without testing for allergies or other effects on humans.

The biggy though is that they are designing seeds that the crop growers have no control over. The seeds are often unable to be stored or grown again, and this puts the food supply under the control of a few private corporations.

Answer 2

well i think these can be some benefits and risks of genetically modified crops:

disadvantages:

new toxins in foods, spread of diseases they can also affect human, they can also change the ecological balance and have long term effects on producting, unwanted weeds and plants that may grow out of control, and be more resistant to herbicide etc.

advantages:

more nutritious crops

Answer 3

One thing that people sometimes do not consider is that humans have genetically altered all sorts of plants and animals for a very long time. That is how a scraggly little grass plant became modified over a very long time into the robust corn plant we have today.

Genetic engineering is done to make the agricultural product more valuable to humans. The risk is to induce undesireable characteristics at the same time. For instance, suppose a plant was genetically engineered to produce larger yield, but at the same time the modification made the plant more likely to get a disease.

Answer 4

Benefits:

1. We can obtain the crops faster compared to a non-genetically modified crops.

2. we can get the crops with larger size and even with special colour without having to add artificial colouring.  

3.The taste of the food may also being change through genetic modification, scientist can make an orange sweeter if they want

so that customers will like.

Risks:

1. There maybe mutation if the food is not carefully check after the modification.

2. Or we may get poisoned if the food is accidentally mismodified.

Answer 5

benefits of GM crops, higher production, faster growing, resistance to things like drought, pests, and other bad conditions.

costs of GM crops

they are not time tested, they could do all sorts of strange things, possible temperature triggers, they might die at new weather patterns, or have limited sustainability.

they are 11 times more likely to trade DNA with outside species.

they let viruses cross species boundaries.

example, you cross a fish with corn, so that the corn grows its own pesticides. but the problem may be that a virus for fish can now adapt to kill all the corn plants.

overall GM crops can be very useful to people, but we have to be careful how we do it, and most people are not being careful.

Answer 6

Truthfully... There are no  risks!!!!

its all uphil. geneticaly modified food has alowed us

1 more food production

2beter tasting food

3 Food that is beter for us

4 food that is less expensive to grow

5 SEEDLESS WATERMELLON!!!!!!

Answer 7

One of the problems with GM crops and animals is that the developing company  is issued patents.  Monsanto is notorious for suing farmers for saving patented seeds to replant the next year or for harvesting GM seeds that contaminate their fields.

Answer 8

GM crops are toted as a solution to the problems of the future world food supply and advocates even suggest that the technology will be used to reduce the use of environmentally harmful chemicals and to improve the nutritional value of food. Of course there are risks of genetic pollution, superweeds and dangerous changes in food products, but other important issues are the morality of humans trying to create new lifeforms, and corporate control in that the technology is so expensive that only a small number of large companies can afford to be involved and they are motivated purely by profit.

Thanks for the thumbs down drsson but i have to tell you that seedless watermelons were not produced by gm technology and you don't know sh*t!