To increase their resistance to disease and predation. To improve the yield. To allow crops to grow more quickly and in more adverse conditions. To reduce starvation in the world.
From the anedotal evidence, potential benefits for the environment of genetic engineering are difficult to find. There have been promises of less chemicals in the form of pesticides being needed for GM crops, but that just has not been shown to be true. Also, "unintentional" cross-breeding of GM varieties with non-GMO varieties, including organically grown crops, has been shown to be occurring.
Based on new higher-yeilding strains of grain and other crops developed in laboratories using modern day technology and genetic engineering.
The Sumerians invented the plow around 6000 BC. This made planting easier and faster. They also developed arithmetic, which they used to help them track the crops they planted.
The GM Family First program is where family members of a GM employee can lease or purchase a new GM vehicle but get it at the price the employee pays. They even will let you combine the discount with most current offers as well!
Organic crops are non GMO, but GMO crops of the same kind can cross pollinate with them, resulting in contamination of the organic crops.
More productive
Because of the opportunity GM crops provide for greater profit with less risk. Also GM crops give much bigger yields (bushels/acre) and thus more profit over crops that are not GMO.
Because some people do not agree with GM crops and it can cause controversal
They are not.
Gm crops are the genetically modified crops of food so they dont rot before there sell by date. they are enjected with a gene from another plant.
Genetically modified crops are grown world wide. Genetic modification of plants has been man assisted since Luther Burbank developed 800 strains ad varieties of plants.
Of course it is!
the main export market for Israel is Europe which does not approve of GM crops so the answer is: no, there are no commercially grown GM crops in Israel. however Israel it self is not against GM.
Corn and Soybeans
GM crops are produced much like other crops, except that many that are grown have been genetically engineered to be resistant to herbicides or to produce an insecticide in the plant itself.
While there are anecdotal reports of toxicity to Monarch butterfly larva, there is no scientific evidence of any danger to the environment from GM crops.
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