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 OTHER NAMES
- Food produced with bioengineering.
DEFINITION
The food transgénicos is that food to which exogenous genes have been inserted in his genetic codes originated in most cases from plants transgénicas like the corn or the soya.
Already from very ancient the farmers were mixing animals with certain characteristics to obtain a race more perfected in certain activities (for example the dogs' different races), or were doing it with plants to give more resistance to certain plagues. They were obtaining this with several crossings and concerning several generations. The treatment with genetic engineering what it does is to insert certain genes and to obtain these modifications of intensive form.
TARGETS
The genetic engineering applied to the food can produce:
- More balanced and nourishing food
Food with better taste
Plants more resistant to the water absence and to the plagues
Decrease in the use of pesticides
Decrease of the water needs
Minor price on the market
Progress of the characteristics of the food as for calories
The possible risks are:
- Ignorance of the answer of the persons to these genetic changes.
- The progress of certain productions can make to eliminate the cultivation of the originals.
- The progress in a property can do capable to have other unknown problems.
FOOD CURRENT TRANSGÉNICOS
- Corn
- Soya
- Potatoes
- Tomatoes
- Pumpkin
WARNINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
At present there is an exhaustive control on the benefits and risks of all the food transgénicos to evaluate his possible adverse effects, and a control of the evolution is done.
To today the food transgénicos is considered to be insurances, although there have not been tests adapted to assure it completely. There do not exist reports of illnesses or injuries due to this food. Every food transgénico new will have to be evaluated in an individual way.
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