We’ve been tinkering with food in
laboratories for nearly 100 years and in 1920 scientist realized that they can cause
mutations in plants thereby creating more genetic diversity and possibly more
desirable traits by exposing them to X-RAYS in and gamma rays in various chemicals
Though the 1970s these methods have mutation breeding were quite popular in
completely unregulated in largely ignored by the public, Thousands of cultivars
produce this way are currently on the market. It’s the kinda brute force attack
just mash the genes up, plant seeds and see what happens then breed the cool
new traits back in the various strains a crops, Then in 1983 scientist pioneered a
new tactic where they successfully took a gene from an antibiotic-resistant bacterium
and like that into the DNA and the tobacco plants, Now of course antibiotic-resistant
tobacco doesn’t have any real purpose, but it didn’t prove that it single gene
transfer was possible, the new practice of transgenic was born on the
GM industry wasn’t really able to take hold until 1994, when the USDA approved
something called the flavor saver tomato. Approved invented by California biotech
company that was altered, so that it took longer to ripen giving it a longer shelf
life, It was the first genetically engineered crops al the consumers the flavor saver
ever though didn’t last very long partly because people didn’t like the taste and
partly because others mainly in Europe, were suspicious if it’s genetic alteration
The flavor saver and it’s not ideal player touched off a debate that continues
to rage. Today most GMOs aren’t found in your produce section like the flavor
saver was, Instead more 90% of commercially grown GM food are commodity
crops, stables like feed corn and soybeans which have been modified to resist
herbicides or insects in fact these drugs are used to make the ingredients a lot to the
processed food we eat or are used as fodder for animals that, we later enjoy
consuming the flesh of probably the most well-known on these transgenic
crops are the so-called roundup ready crops foods like
soybean,corn,sugar,beets,cotton,algalfa,and canola that are the engineered to resist
the active ingredient in the herbicide roundup. These crops provide us with some
might say digestible examples of how transgenic foods are engineered, why’ve
made the way they are, what they do, as well as, what they don’t to do.