The dangers in genetically engineered
food are huge because genetic structures
have evolved over millions of years
and now scientists are changing the
balance with changes that could would
never happen naturally and they are doing
it very fast without being prepared for
possible consequences. Some of the risks
of genetically engineered food include.
All of the plants or animals would all
be susceptible to the same diseases.
For example if you genetically engineer
a tomato so it will die of a disease
after it reproduces then most of its
children would be exactly the same
and would die after they reproduce. If
the scientist messes up and accidentally
changes the wrong gene it could turn out
to be a type of poisonous plant or carry
a deadly disease and it could kill any
thing that eats it. If you spliced a Tomato
and a cat's genes then you might end up
with horribly mutated cats that can produce
there own food but couldn't move so they could
not protect them self from other animals
because it has the instincts of the tomato.
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