What are the uses of genetically modified foods in society and agriculture?

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Answer 1

Well if you naturally had a small apple and you could make it better would you. Instead of growing 20 apples why not 40. Its almost like playing god but with food. lol. IF you can improve the amount of product from something by making it better, bigger, lighter, or heavier, more sweet, quantity and last longer after picking it would you. It makes it easier and better for everybody in every way. Helps out. So to answer your question its makes it easier for the population to grow due to the m *** amount of people. Also allows a better economy.

Answer 2

As per the benefits of scientific techniques ,the genetically modified food provides us- crops more in quantity and better in size in the normal land size we use,they are resistant to diseases as they are modified so and hence save the complete crops or plantations from being destroyed, We can get better quality food items,we are able to grow 2 crops at a time in single space like 'pomato' plant which grows potato at the base and tomatoes at the top ,this technique is quite good for places like Japan which have scarcity of land.Like this there are number of other uses too.Their are some bad aspects also, like -a farmer has to purchase the seeds everytime he will sow the seeds,plants prepared for specific problems and diseases cannot be used everywhere as every areas  crop suffer from different problems and diseases etc.

Answer 3

Living in a farming community ive picked up on this.. plants such as corn for example can be gentically modified to me more resilaint or be able to surive harsher conditions or require less nutirients so more can be grown and sold..basically its taking something and making it better usally for quanity

Answer 4

E.g seedless fruit, make plants that's immue to deceas.es, greater yields, kill bugs etc. Stuff that's good for the farmer. My teacher was talking about plants that fertilise themselves

Answer 5

It is said that by modifying the foods, they will be more resistant to pests, so fewer pesticides.  They yield more, so you can use less fertilizers, too.  So idealistically, they should solve the world's food crises.

Unfortunately, the dream doesn't live up to the reality.

When bees and birds cross pollinate plants, they create GMO wild plant/weed mixes that are creating SUPER WEEDS and at the same time killing off the bees.  Bees are responsible for 80% of the food we eat.  No bees, No food.

Secondly, GMO seeds do not reproduce, so farmers in third world countries are FORCED to buy seeds year after year from rich industrialised nations.

SAY NO TO GMO!!!!!

Answer 6

GMO crops are one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of agriculture.  Specifically, the use of BT varieties of plants.  For example, corn.  Researches first developed BT Corn by taking genes from the bacteria Bacillus Theringencious (might have mispelled it) which is fairly unique in that this bacteria naturally produces a chemical compound that is toxic to most harmful insects.  By implanting this gene into corn, scientists produced a variety of corn that also contains this naturally occuring chemical pesticide.  Which means that applying synthetic chemical pesticides by spraying is no longer required (at least not nearly as much).  This saves farmers from producing toxic runoff.  Similar experiments have been done in many, many types of crops since, including cotton, soybean, wheat, and many others and have been very effective.  

Similar advancements have also been made through gene modification that have resulted in increased crop yield, disease resistance, better vitamin and mineral content of vegetables, and pest resistance.

Also, other plants, such as flowers, have been geneticall modified for asthetic reasons.  They can produce new colors, prettier foliage, more flowers, etc.

Another area on the horizon of this field is called "pharming" which means growing plants that produce medicines for us.  For example, if a drug is difficult to produce in a lab, and therefore expensive, it may become feasible to have a plant, such as a potato, produce that drug for us, and it be more cost-effective than a lab.

By the way, as with any radically new technology, this can all seem scary to those who do not understand it.  Some people were horrified by trains when they first say one, same for airplanes, hot air balloons, and probably as far back as fire.  There are no "super-weeds," plants only cross-pollinate their same species, and most all GMO plants are sterile anyway (that's the only way the seed companies can stay in business, if they were able to be pollinated, no one would buy the seed that they sank millions of dollars into researching).  And no one forces anyone to buy anything, you either buy it or you do it the old-fashioned way.   If people are going to post on here and express their biased political views, they need to do their homework first or else they appear to be very ignorant.

Hope this has helped.