Transgenic food is food that is genetically modified. Scientifics usually apply this technique to vegetables and fruit. This is very useful because food obtains more quality, the flavour is better, it lasts longer because this food is damp-proof, heat-resistant and also resistant to cold, saltiness, weedkillers, plagues... We also can change the appearance, but this is not important because it's only an external question.
What has real importance is that maybe one day genetically modified food will have pharmacological substances, so this means a giant progress to science. If this can be true, who will benefit the most of this progress will be people of third world countries because there medicines are too expensive or don't arrive but if the "medicine" is inside an economic food, they will improve their live qualities and there will be fewer deaths.
So, we have to see transgenic food as a thing in our favour, because it doesn't bring bad consequences. In spite of this, there are some people, like environmentalists that criticize it in all aspects but why? Because they only see the harmful consequences that in fact do not exist. They say that if we eat plants with chemical products resistant to herbicides and these kill the insects, these chemicals will also kill us- but they aren't conscious that the quantity of that substance is too little that it can't affect us.
Also, I don't agree with their opinion because I'm sure that they don't know the progress I explained before about food with pharmacological substances. Nevertheless, I think that we have to introduce transgenic food but always with a limit neither too few or too many.
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