Another example of why a food organism might be modified is to make the final product more resilient to the means of distribution, such as what is seen with tomatoes being genetically modified to have more resilient skins, so they can be grown, harvested and distributed in mass. Many think of these types of modifications as positive, for the development of sustainable food growth, to feed a growing population, more efficiently and effectively. In many ways the positive aspects of this trend are good, and yet genetically modified plants and foods also create potential threats. Some examples of this are plants that if left on their own can overcome natural and indigenous plants, such as are seen with grain crops that have resilient single rather than traditional natural bush like growth. As these plants overtake the grasses that grow in clumps, the protection for the soil changes, even outside of the agricultural area, and fires spread more rapidly. ("Give a Weed an" c1) Another example would be the modifications of plants to resist common predators, chemical, insect or animal.
Plants are designed by nature to grow in certain climates within a naturally controlled setting, if one plan grows so successfully that it eliminates its predators, say an insect, then that insect will naturally die off and the purpose it serves, which we may not know is not fulfilled. This may be at the source of the recent death of millions of essential bees that pollinate plants. This loss, though still evolving is likely multi-causal but will create a massive future food shortage, if it continues at the present rate. This phenomena might also be as a result of hundreds of years of unfettered use of pesticides and herbicides, but it is an example of the importance of treading lightly on the earth. (Gaudet 32) Another not on this issue is that there are no laws or regulations, for the most part to control how a crop is grown, secondary to property rights, and therefore growth of certain crops over and over in one area can create soil depletion.
Another reason why genetic modification of food organisms is dangerous is because biodiversity can...
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