Benefits
Crops
- Enhanced taste and quality
- REduced maturation time
- Increased nutrients, yields, and stress tolerance
- Improved resistance to disease, pests, and herbicides
- New products and growing techniques
Animals
- Increased resistance, productivity, hardiness and feed efficiency
- Better yields of meat, eggs and milk
- Improved animal health and diagnostic methods
Environment
- "Friendly" bioherbicides and bioinsecticides
- Consevation of soil, water and energy
- Bioprocessing for forestry products
- Better natural waste management
- More efficient processing
Society
- Increased food secuirty for growing populations
Controversies
Safety
-Potiental human health impacts: allergens, transfer of antibiotic resistance markers
-Potiental environment impacts: Unintended transfer of transgenes through cross-pollution
Ethics
- Violation of natural organisms' intrinsic values
- Tampering with nature by mixing genes among species
- Objections to comsuming animal genes in plants and vice versa
Labeling
- Not mandatory in some countries
- Mixing GM crops with non-GM confounds labeling attempts
Source of the information
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