COLEGIO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTÍFICOS Y TECNOLÓGICOS DEL ESTADO DE MEXICO
Plantel Nezahualcóyotl
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Vargas Colin Zaida Zuzel
Eduviguez de los Santos Cristian Ysandro
Morales Casquera Aldo
Gonzales Alvares Areli Gisselle
ENGLISH 2
Alimentos Transgenicos.
“TRANSGENIC FOOD”
What is a transgenic food?
Transgenic foods are those that include in their composition some ingredient that comes from an organism
that has been incorporated by genetic techniques, a gene of another species. Thanks to modern
biotechnology, a gene can be transferred from one organism to another to give it a special quality that it
lacks, so that transgenic plants can withstand pests, better resist herbicides and droughts, etc. ....
In the case of Europe, no transgenic modalities are allowed, since only those that can be cultivated and
later commercialized are.
Since the appearance of transgenic foods have been the subject of much controversy. There are people
who are in their favor and others who are completely against the production of these foods.
For example, Juan Felipe Carrasco, head of the campaign against transgenics Greenpeace, says that the
industrial agriculture that is currently sold as "food for all humanity" is causing irreversible damage, because
he says that it is not true that science this in favor of said foods, pointing out that people who are against
such foods are not against the science of the future, but are against the release of transgenic to the
environment.
On the other hand, Francisco García Olmedo, professor of Molecular Biochemistry at the Polytechnic
University of Madrid, says the opposite, mentioning that transgenics are the biggest innovation in food
production in the last 25 years, and that there has not been a single incident in human health or in the
environment.
Why were transgenic foods created?
Proponents of this practice believe that genetic modification is intended to achieve much more resistant
foods with better nutritional qualities that are more beneficial to humans. That is to say, we can find more
maize resistant to insects, tomatoes that last longer in the refrigerator without getting lost, rice rich in
vitamin A, crops more resistant to droughts, crops that survive insecticides and herbicides, coffee without
caffeine , etc.…
In short, we can say that the purpose or goal with which transgenic foods were made was to make food
more resistant, longer lasting, more nutritious and in less time.
List of transgenic foods
Previously I commented on some of the transgenic foods that we can consume, but we will see
more examples and explain them in detail:
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Transgenic Soy: Changes that are made from genes extracted from bacterial herbicides are
introduced into soybean seeds. When it is modified, it is much more resistant to glyphosates and
herbicides.
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