What are some reasons for introducing genetically modified food?

Answer 1

Genetically modified foods are plants or animal products that have been enhanced to improve some desirable quality: size, production, flavor, a certain needed vitamin, or resistance to pesticides or disease.

Natural genetic modification (cross breeding) has been going on for millenia, for example, farmers with a particularly productive milk cow will breed her to get calves that have similar high production or to get a bull that could breed with other cows to birth other high milk-producing cows. This kind of genetic modification is also regularly performed today.

A modern technique used for genetic modification is that scientists will identify the genes responsible for giving a plant desirable qualities, and using bacteria or viruses, modify the DNA of other plants to develop that desirable quality.

Answer 2

Some say GMO food is needed to feed the world, but many believe the herbicide resistant and Bt varieties that have been developed are nothing more than a profit source for the corporations that developed them.

Answer 3

To combat pest and disease and yield a larger harvest. Most bugs are becoming resistant to GM crops. And the GM crops con not reproduce on their own, so these companys that make GM foods have a hold on the organic seed market making it harder for natural farmers to grow their own crops and the pollen gets blown onto organic fields preventing them from producing seeds. Messed up ain't it.