The Impact of GMOs on Human Health: What You Need to Know
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Modern scientists are actively working on creating new properties in plants and animals by introducing foreign genes into them. For example, today a large portion of the potatoes grown worldwide contains genes from scorpions, making them unappetizing to the Colorado potato beetle!
However, this potato ends up on people's tables, just like many other agricultural crops with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Surprisingly, most scientists working in this area do not consider how GMOs affect human health.
Meanwhile, medical experts have long been sounding the alarm: since the emergence of GMOs in food, there has been a sharp increase in the incidence of illnesses such as infertility, allergies, and oncological diseases. The number of genetic anomalies is increasing, and mortality rates are rising among both people and animals. Additionally, there is a concerning reduction in biodiversity in ecosystems.
Several countries, such as Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Poland, Venezuela, France, and Germany, have officially recognized the harm of GMOs and completely refused to use them. In other countries, mandatory labeling of products containing GMOs has been introduced.
In Russia, genetically modified products first appeared in the 1990s. To date, 16 lines of GMO crops are legally allowed to be cultivated in our country, including 6 lines of corn, 3 lines of soy, 3 lines of potatoes, 2 lines of rice, and 2 lines of beets, as well as 5 types of microorganisms. Although this may seem like a small number, these products are widely used in everyday life, especially soy, which is found in almost all meat products and sausages.
However, the most alarming part of this story is that there is no labeling of GMO products in Russia, despite the fact that in 2005 an amendment to the Consumer Rights Protection Law was signed regarding the mandatory labeling of GMO components in food products. Apparently, the fines for violations are too small to compel producers to comply with the law.
How exactly GMO products affect the human organism remains a mystery. In Russia, such studies are not conducted at all. Attempts to conduct research both in our country and abroad face strong opposition.
If we delve into the process of introducing a foreign gene, the situation becomes clearer. The gene is introduced using viruses, transposons, or plasmids that can penetrate the cells of the host organism and integrate into its genome. The genes embedded in this way are accepted by the cells of the host organism and begin to reproduce and mutate uncontrollably.
Even geneticists themselves cannot always predict the consequences that the insertion of a particular gene will cause. Naturally, they do not consider the repercussions, as their work is generously funded by interested multinational corporations.
Finding a solution to this situation is difficult, so the question of the impact of GMOs on human health remains open.
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