Definition of GMOs in food. Are GMO foods safe? Why are GMO foods dangerous?

The topic of eating genetically modified foods is very relevant. Someone considers genetic engineering a violence against nature, and someone is afraid for their own health and the manifestation of side effects. While there are debates all over the world about the benefits and, many people buy and eat them without even knowing it.

What are genetically modified foods?

In modern society, there is a trend towards proper nutrition, and everything that is fresh and natural gets on the table. People try to bypass everything that is obtained from genetically modified organisms, the constitution of which has been radically changed with the help of genetic engineering. You can reduce their use only if you have an idea of ​​what GMOs are in food.

Today, up to 40% of GMO products are sold in supermarkets: vegetables, fruits, tea and coffee, chocolate, sauces, juices and soda, even. It only takes one GM component for a food to be labeled GMO. In the list:

• transgenic fruits, vegetables and possibly animals for food;
• products with GM ingredients (for example, transgenic corn);
• processed transgenic raw materials (for example, chips from transgenic corn).

How to distinguish genetically modified foods?

Genetically modified foods are obtained when a gene from one organism, bred in a laboratory, is planted in the cell of another. GMOs give a plant or a number of traits: resistance to pests, viruses, chemicals and external influences, but if genetically modified products regularly hit the shelves, how to distinguish them from natural ones? It is necessary to look at the composition and appearance:

1. Genetically modified products (GMP) have a long shelf life and do not deteriorate. Perfectly even, smooth, non-flavorful vegetables and fruits - almost certainly with GMOs. The same applies to bakery products that stay fresh for a long time.
2. Frozen semi-finished products are stuffed with transgenes - dumplings, meatballs, dumplings, pancakes, ice cream.
3. Products from the USA and Asia containing potato starch, soy flour and corn in 90% of GMO cases. If the product contains vegetable protein on the label, it is modified soy.
4. Cheap sausages usually contain soy concentrate, which is a GM ingredient.
5. Food additives E 322 (soy lecithin), E 101 and E 102 A (riboflavin), E415 (xanthan), E 150 (caramel) and others may indicate the presence.

Genetically modified products - "for" and "against"

There is a lot of controversy about such food. People are concerned about the environmental risks of growing them: genetically mutated forms can end up in the wild and lead to global changes in ecological systems. Consumers are concerned about food risks: possible allergic reactions, poisoning, diseases. The question arises: are genetically modified products needed on the world market? It is not yet possible to get rid of them completely. They do not impair the taste of food, and the cost of transgenic variants is much lower than natural ones. There are both opponents and supporters of GMF.

Harm of GMOs

There is not a single one hundred percent confirmed study that would indicate that modified foods are harmful to the body. However, opponents of GMOs call a lot of hard facts:

1. Genetic engineering can have dangerous and unpredictable side effects.
2. Harms the environment due to greater use of herbicides.
3. They can get out of control and spread, polluting the gene pool.
4. Some studies claim that GM foods are harmful as a cause of chronic diseases.

Benefits of GMOs

Genetically modified foods have their benefits. As for plants, less chemicals accumulate in transgenic than in natural counterparts. Varieties with a modified constitution are resistant to various viruses, diseases and weather, they ripen much faster, and even more are stored, they fight pests on their own. With the help of transgenic intervention, the time for selection is significantly reduced. These are the undoubted advantages of GMOs, besides, advocates of genetic engineering argue that eating GMF is the only way to save humanity from hunger.

Why are genetically modified foods dangerous?

Despite all attempts to find benefits from the introduction of modern science, genetic engineering, genetically modified foods are most often referred to in a negative way. They carry three threats:

1. Environment (emergence of resistant weeds, bacteria, reduction of species or numbers of plants and animals, chemical pollution).
2. The human body (allergies and other diseases, metabolic disorders, changes in microflora, mutagenic effect).
3. Global risks (economic security, activation of viruses).

Ecology of life: We all know how important vegetables are to our health, and we all know that our choice should be in favor of organic vegetables, not genetically modified ones. Unfortunately, poor information literacy in relation to GMO products affects the fact that we often cannot distinguish between products that are dangerous for our body.

We all know how important vegetables are to our health , and we all know that our choice should be in favor of organic vegetables, not genetically modified ones.

Unfortunately, poor information literacy in relation to GMO products affects the fact that we often cannot distinguish between products that are dangerous for our body.

This is used by corporations, which, just by changing the gene structure of the product, immediately grow another "creation" under the guise of beautiful fruits and vegetables.

The governments of many countries have begun to defend themselves against GMOs and have introduced special labeling on goods.

If these products are so harmful, then why were these products created? The thing is that initially they planned to grow such crops to save the hungry in the poor countries of Africa. But these same countries a few years ago banned the import of products with GMOs, apparently believing that starving would still be safer for health.

How to choose a genetically pure tomato?

To begin with, you must understand that 80% of all products on store shelves contain GMOs in one way or another. You think the situation on the market is better - by no means. In fact, all sellers in the markets buy their goods at specialized vegetable wholesale warehouses, so the products there are identical to those in stores.

So how do you avoid buying poisonous GMO vegetables and fruits? Here's what you need to know:

1. Difference in appearance

It is quite easy to distinguish GM foods from natural ones: they remain fresh for a long time, insects do not land on them, and these products often have an ideal shape.

If you see large shiny round tomatoes, you should avoid them. The best indicator of the naturalness of vegetables and fruits will be their slight spoilage. Also, when cut, GM vegetables and fruits do not lose their shape at all and do not release juice.

2. Label and marking

Already in many countries, GMO fruits and vegetables are labeled with a four-digit code, while organic fruits and vegetables, including tomatoes, are labeled with a five-digit code.

Namely:

Organic vegetables and fruits have a five-digit code that always starts with the number 9. Genetically modified fruits and vegetables have a four-digit code that always starts with the number 8.

Many European countries have already banned GMO foods. They included: France, Germany, Luxembourg, Greece, Hungary and Austria.

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Unfortunately, the only product that geneticists have not yet learned how to modify is buckwheat, so buy it with confidence!

A special pride of our specialists is potatoes, from which the Colorado potato beetles die. For environmentalists, he is the main irritant. Experts say that when eating transgenic potatoes in rats, a change in blood composition occurs, a change in the size of internal organs, and pathologies appear in much greater numbers than when eating ordinary potatoes.

9 cotton lines

Of these, massively grown: soybeans, corn, rapeseed and cotton.

According to Rospotrebnadzor of the Russian Federation, in 2004 compared to 2003, three times more samples (12,956 samples) of food raw materials and foodstuffs were examined for the presence of genetically modified sources (GM). The largest number of samples containing GMI in absolute terms in 2004 was found in meat products - 946 (in 2003 - 272) and "other" products based on vegetable proteins - 466 (in 2003 - 129). GMIs were found in small quantities in bakery and flour-grinding products (44 samples), poultry and poultry products (29 samples), baby food (13 samples) and canned food (13 samples).

In general, foods containing GMOs can be divided into three categories:

1. Products containing GM ingredients (mainly transgenic corn and soybeans). These additives are introduced into food products as structuring, sweetening, coloring agents, and also as substances that increase the protein content.

2. Processing products of transgenic raw materials (for example, bean curd, soy milk, chips, corn flakes, tomato paste).

3. Transgenic vegetables and fruits, and soon, possibly, animals that are directly used for food.

It is also useful to remember the names of some companies that, according to the state register, supply GM raw materials to their customers in Russia or are themselves producers:

Central Soya Protein Group, Denmark;

OOO "BIOSTAR TRADE", St. Petersburg;

CJSC "Universal", Nizhny Novgorod;

Monsanto Co., USA;

Protein Technologies International Moscow, Moscow;

Agenda LLC, Moscow;

ZAO ADM-Food Products, Moscow;

JSC "GALA", Moscow;

CJSC Belok, Moscow;

Dera Food Technology N.V., Moscow;

Herbalife International of America, USA;

OY FINNSOYPRO LTD, Finland;

Salon Sport-Service LLC, Moscow;

When buying products in a store, labels can indirectly determine the likelihood of a product containing GMOs. If the label says that a product is made in the USA and contains soy, corn, canola or potatoes, there is a very good chance that it contains GM components.

Most products based on soy not produced in the US, but outside of Russia, can also be transgenic. If the proud inscription “vegetable protein” is on the label, it is most likely soy and very likely transgenic.

Often GMOs can be hidden behind E indices. However, this does not mean that all E supplements contain GMOs or are transgenic. You just need to know which E can, in principle, contain GMOs or their derivatives.

It is primarily soy lecithin or E 322 lecithin: binds water and fat together and is used as a fat element in formula milks, biscuits, chocolate, riboflavin (B2) otherwise known as E 101 and E 101A, can be produced from GM microorganisms. It is added to cereals, soft drinks, baby food and weight loss products. Caramel (E 150) and xanthan (E 415) can also be produced from GM grain.

Other additives that may contain GM components: E 153, E 160d, E 161c, E 308-9, E-471, E 472a, E 473, E 475, E 476b, E 477, E479a, E 570, E 572, E 573, E 620, E 621, E 622, E 633, E 624, E 625, E951.

Sometimes on the labels the names of additives are indicated only in words, they also need to be able to navigate. Let's take a look at the most common components.

Soybean Oil: Used in sauces, spreads, cakes and well-done foods in the form of fat to add extra flavor and quality. Vegetable oil or vegetable fats: most commonly found in biscuits, hard-fried foods such as chips. Maltodextrin: A type of starch that acts as a "master agent" used in baby food, powdered soups, and powdered desserts.

Glucose or Glucose Syrup: Sugar, which can be made from cornstarch, is used as a sweetener. Found in drinks, desserts and fast food.

Dextrose: Like glucose, it can be made from cornstarch. Used in cakes, chips and cookies to achieve brown color. Also used as a sweetener in high energy sports drinks.

Aspartame, aspasvit, aspamix: A sweetener that can be produced using a GM bacterium is restricted in several countries and is reported to have received a lot of complaints, mainly related to fainting syndrome, from consumers in the United States. Aspartame is found in carbonated water, diet sodas, chewing gum, ketchups, etc.

Many people think that the label "modified starch" on a product means that the product contains GMOs. This even led to the fact that in 2002 the Legislative Assembly of the Perm region at its meeting included yoghurts with modified starch in the list of GM products illegally distributed in the region. In fact, modified starch is obtained chemically without the use of genetic engineering. But starch itself can have a genetically engineered origin if it was obtained from GM corn, GM potatoes.

During the test, the highest percentage of GM soybeans was found in the Veal Traditional boiled sausage produced by the Cherkizovsky plant. GMIs were most often found in the products of the same manufacturer, as well as in the products of the D.E.C. V.S. company (trademark "Rollton").

Among the manufacturers whose products contain GMOs, there were also:

LLC "Daria - semi-finished products";

OOO Meat Processing Plant Klinskiy;

MPZ "Tagansky";

MPZ "Kampomos";

CJSC "Vichunai";

LLC "MLM-RA";

Tolsto-products LLC;

Ostankino MPK;

LLC “Sausage plant “Bogatyr””;

Rose Marie Ltf LLC;

ML "Mikoyanovsky";

JSC "Tsaritsyno";

JSC "Lianozovsky sausage factory"

Our favorite dumplings also turned out to be genetically modified, namely: “Dumplings without haste, pork and beef”, “Daria classic dumplings”, GMOs were found in “Vkusnye” beef steaks.

GMO - genetically modified foods:

List of genetically modified foods:

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are being developed as biological weapons, a means of curbing population growth, and a means of undermining the food security of nations.

So first on the list:

Lipton tea

Coffee "Nescafe"

Modified coffee is now actively grown by Nescafe. So far, vast plantations of such coffee are grown only in Vietnam.

List of GMOs:

Manufacturing company Unilever

Brooke Bond (tea)

Conversation (tea)

Calve (mayonnaise, ketchup)

Rama (oil)

Pyshka (margarine)

Delmi (mayonnaise, yogurt, margarine)

Algida (ice cream)

Knorr (seasoning)

Nestle manufacturing company

Nescafe (coffee and milk)

Maggi (soups, broths, mayonnaise, seasonings, mashed potatoes)

Nestle (chocolate)

Nesquik (cocoa)

Kellog's manufacturing company

Corn Flakes (flakes)

Frosted Flakes (flakes)

Rice Krispies (cereal)

Corn Pops (cereals)

Smacks (cereals)

Froot Loops (colored flakes)

Apple Jacks (apple flavored cereal rings)

All-bran Apple Cinnamon/ Blueberry

Chocolate Chip (chocolate chips)

Pop Tarts (stuffed cookies, all flavors)

Nutri-grain (filled toast, all types)

Crispix (cookies)

Smart Start (flakes)

All-Bran (cereal)

Just Right Fruit & Nut (cereal)

Honey Crunch Corn Flakes (flakes)

Raisin Bran Crunch (cereal)

Cracklin' Oat Bran (cereal)

Hershey's manufacturing company

Toblerone (chocolate, all kinds)

Mini Kisses (candy)

Kit-Kat (chocolate bar)

Kisses (candy)

Semi-Sweet Baking Chips (cookies)

Milk Chocolate Chips (cookies)

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (peanut butter)

Special Dark (dark chocolate)

Milk Chocolate (milk chocolate)

Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup)

Special Dark Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup)

Strawberry Syrop (strawberry syrup)

Mars manufacturing company

Crunch (chocolate rice cereal)

Milk Chocolate Nestle (chocolate)

Nesquik (chocolate drink)

Cadbury (Cadbury/Hersey's)

Heinz manufacturing company

Ketchup (regular & no salt) (ketchup)

Chili Sauce (Chili sauce)

Heinz 57 Steak Sauce (meat sauce)

Hellman's manufacturing company

Real Mayonnaise (mayonnaise)

Light Mayonnaise (mayonnaise)

Low-Fat Mayonnaise (mayonnaise)

Coca-Cola manufacturing company

Minute Maid Orange

Minute Maid Grape

PepsiCo manufacturing company

Frito-Lay/ PepsiCo (GM components may be present in oil and other ingredients)

Lays Potato Chips (all) (chips)

Cheetos (all) (chips)

Manufacturing company Cadbury/Schweppes

Pringles Manufacturing Company (Procter & Gamble)

Pringles (Original, Low Fat, Pizza-licious, Sour Cream & Onion, Salt & Vinegar, Cheezeums flavored chips)

Honey can be harvested from genetically modified plants.

There is a high frequency of information that bees cannot pollinate genetically modified buckwheat. So, there is one.

Rice. In general, it is better to buy not anonymous varieties of plant products, but quite specific ones. For example, Basmati rice. There is a high probability that in this case the product will not be GMO.

Anonymous rice, as well as Chinese or Taiwanese, is most likely transgenic.

Russia is one of the main importers of this product from China. However, according to environmentalists, the Chinese have been producing GM rice unofficially and exporting it for two years now.

The fact that genetically modified rice is illegally grown in China was reported by environmentalists in April. “In the spring of 2005, Greenpeace took samples of rice obtained from Chinese suppliers, farmers and millers for genetic testing at the German Genescan laboratory,” Greenpeace Russia spokeswoman Maya Kolikova told NI. – It turned out that more than 2/3 of the samples (19 out of 25) were genetically modified.

When interviewing farmers and grain suppliers from China, we found out that for more than two years, transgenic rice has been illegally grown and actively sold both domestically and abroad.”

The situation, according to environmentalists, is aggravated by the fact that the Chinese government is considering the possibility of legalizing the industrial production of GM rice. The Greens believe that the Russians will suffer the most from the actions of the Chinese authorities - deliveries of the product from this country account for more than 60% of all our rice imports.

However, in this case there are not only minuses, but also pluses. Indeed, until now, rice supplied to Russia was formally considered unmodified, and no checks were made for the content of GMI in it. Therefore, no one can say how many transgenes we have already eaten and will eat again. If the consumer has information about where the rice comes from, he will be able to decide for himself whether to buy this product or not.

Environmentalists, however, see the problem not so much in the cereal itself, which can really be abandoned, but in the distribution of products with the addition of rice flour, including many children's products - milk formulas and cereals, noodles, semi-finished products. Manufacturers, as a rule, do not indicate the country where the ingredients come from.

I would like to point out that "Indica", a term found on rice packs, is not the original name of any variety. It just means long grain rice. It may also be from China.

Attention! Signs of transgenic fruits and vegetables.

Is it possible to distinguish modified fruits and vegetables from natural ones?

Too clean, little different from each other potato tubers or perfectly shaped tomatoes - a reason to think. After all, a sure sign of natural natural products is the presence in the total mass of “eaten” by insects and rotten specimens. GM foods are never eaten by insects! If you cut a natural tomato or strawberry, they will immediately give juice, unnatural ones retain their shape.

The most famous products containing GM ingredients:

(according to Greenpeace)

1. Snickers chocolate bars

3. Maggi spices

4 Pringles

Vegetable counters are littered with "Volgograd" tomatoes, like twins similar to Turkish ones. It turns out that in Volgograd for several years only imported "plastic" varieties without taste and smell have been grown on a mass scale.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they turn out to be GMOs. I stopped buying tomatoes of these varieties, and I rarely bought them before.

From the article by E. Yakusheva "What are transgenic products?":

Now 90% of transgenic food exports are corn and soybeans. Popcorn, which is sold everywhere on the streets, is 100% made from GM corn, and is still not labeled accordingly. Soy products from North America or Argentina are 80% GM products.

GM foods are attractive to retailers. For example, genetically modified vegetables and fruits are 4-5 times cheaper than their natural counterparts.

From the book of Liniza Zhuvanovna Zhalpanova:

"Foods that kill you":

Transgenic products are purchased by Russia in other countries with the permission of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation. According to statistics, about 70% of imported products are made from genetically modified raw materials. Such products include: soy products, flour, chocolate, chocolate bars, wine, baby food, milk powder, milk, kefir, yogurt, cottage cheese, carbonated drinks, canned corn and tomatoes, corn oil, biscuits, starch, soy protein, soy oil, soy sauce, lecithin, cottonseed oil, syrups, tomato sauces, coffee and coffee drinks, popcorn, breakfast cereals, etc.

Some of the imported beer is also believed to contain genetically modified molecules taken over by the beer from the modified yeast.

According to the National Association for Genetic Safety, about 1/3 of all products on the Russian market contain genetically modified components.

Greenpeace Handbook "How to avoid the use of products with genetically modified ingredients (GM products)?"

The directory contains lists of food enterprises divided into three categories (green, orange and red lists) according to the criterion of the presence of GM components in products.

The New Year's menu often includes canned store-bought vegetables. But canned corn and green peas are highly undesirable. They are GMO.

According to a month and a half study, our food is simply crammed with genetically modified organisms. Moreover, the food is the most popular in our area - sausages, dumplings, dry soups, canned vegetables, chocolates.

Ecologists (Greenpeace and the All-Ukrainian Ecological League) categorically include products of the most famous brands in this list - Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle, Gallina Blanka, Knorr, Lipton, Bonduel. For a complete list of companies that have confirmed that their products may contain GM ingredients or have not denied their use, see www.ecoleague.net.

“The results of the study showed that in 18 out of 42 randomly selected food products, the content of genetically modified soybeans exceeded 3 percent,” said Mikhail Mukharovskiy, General Director of Ukrmetrteststandart. “Nine of them didn’t list the presence of soy protein at all.”

Bonduel is thus blacklisted!

I understand that the accuracy of what is included in the list is not guaranteed, as the sources of information may be questionable. But otherwise, I have practically no way to keep such a list at all.

Orchard, Rich puree - genetically modified products.

By the way, the very first genetically modified product on the market is a food banana, and any one (to increase productivity, it has, roughly speaking, a duplicated set of chromosomes).

If about a banana: artificially induced polyploidy is also a form of genetic modification (because the chromosome set becomes larger compared to the original organism), most importantly, cheap and angry. But journalists have not yet learned how to scare people with it.

The Mistral company, probably, deliberately does not mark on the packs the country of growth of those cereals and legumes that are packed in them. The fact is that she "lit up" in the sale of American crops, which, most likely, are genetically modified. Not labeled "Basmati Rice" either. Unfortunately, as I only found out today, it could be transgenic with a high degree of probability. From the book Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Background of Genetic Manipulation by William F. Engdahl:

RiceTech, a Texas biotech company, has decided that it will receive patent payments for Basmati rice, a variation that has been a daily staple in India, Pakistan and Asia for thousands of years. In 1998, RiceTech patented genetically modified Basmati rice, and thanks to US laws against labeling genetic products, RiceTech was able to sell it legally, labeling it as regular Basmati rice. RiceTech was found to have taken possession of the precious Basmati seeds through dubious means, which had been deposited with the Rockefeller Foundation's International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines (IRRI). (ten)

In the name of "security," NIIR duplicated a priceless collection of rice seeds from the Philippines and stored it in a seed bank in Fort Collins, Colorado, with a very dubious promise that the seeds would be stored as a safe seed stock for rice farmers. The IRRI convinced the farmers that it would serve their own security to provide their priceless finds in rice seed varieties to the IRRI.

In Colorado, far from the Philippines, MNIIR donated valuable seeds (without which RiceTech might not have made its patented genetic modifications) to RiceTech researchers, who immediately patented everything that was possible. They knew it was highly illegal: Even in Texas, rice researchers know that Basmati rice doesn't usually grow in the dusty plains around Texas' Crawford. (eleven)

RiceTek, in collusion with MNIIR, stole the seeds for its patent. In addition, according to the carefully crafted rules set by the Rockefeller Foundation's IRRI, although genebank seeds cannot be patented, any man-made improved variation based on them can be patented.

Variety "Jasmine" also has a GM modification.

From the article "Transgenic Senior Tomato and Dolly the Sheep...":

You can delay the ripening of already harvested fruits by placing them in special conditions. With the help of carbon dioxide, the action of ethylene released by the fruits is blocked. These properties are manipulated by merchants carrying bananas, citrus fruits, and vegetables - and tomatoes in particular. They are harvested green, and on the way they are treated with ethylene, which causes artificial maturation. Such fruits and vegetables lose their taste, ripen unevenly. And it's easy to verify this. For example, the tomatoes we buy on the market are red on the outside, but white on the inside. The delay in ripening is also connected with the fact that basically those tomatoes that we sell are imported from Turkey, and they are all transgenic. Even on the boxes in which they are packed, it is written: TRANSGEN.

Excerpts from the book of Mikhail Efremov: “Caution! Harmful products!

Additives with a high degree of probability of containing GI components:

E-153 - Vegetable Carbon (vegetable coal);

E-160d - Annatto, Bixin, Norbixin (annatto, bixin, norbixin);

E-308 - Synthetic Gamma-tocopherol (synthetic y-tocopherol);

E-309 - Synthetic Delta-tocopherol (synthetic d-tocopherol);

E-471 - Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids);

E-472a - Acetic Acid Esters of Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids (esters of mono- and diglycerides of acetic fatty acids);

E-473 - Sucrose Esters of Fatty Acids (esters of sucrose and fatty acids);

E-475 - Polyglycerol Esters of Fatty Acids (esters of polyglycerides and fatty acids);

E-476 - Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate (polyglycerol polyglycerinoleates);

E-477 - Propane-1, 2-diol Esters of Fatty Acids (propane-1, 2-diol esters of fatty acids);

E-479b - Thermally Oxideized Soya Bean Oll Interacted with Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids

E-570 - Fatty Acids (fatty acids);

E-951 - Aspartame (aspartame, or nutrosvit).

Additives based on GM components:

Riboflavin (B2) otherwise known as E 101 and E 101A, made from GM microorganisms, is approved for sale in a number of countries. It is added to cereals, soft drinks, baby food and weight loss products. Caramel (E 150) and xanthan (E 415) can be made from grain.

Lecithin (E 322) is produced from soy, which can be genetically modified. Such soy is used, in particular, by Neslte in its chocolate, baby food and other products. Other additives that may contain GM components: E 153, E 160 d, E 161 c, E 308-9, E-471, E 472a, E 473, E 475, E 476 b, E 477, E479 a, E 570, E 572, E 573, E 620, E 621, E 622, E 633, E 624, E 625.

I emphasize that food additives for any purpose (technological, to “improve” consumer qualities) can be included in dietary supplements as well. Therefore, it is important to know which of the food additives are prohibited or dangerous.

I saw how dairy production works. Only milk after that is not very desirable to drink.

And only raw cow's milk can be consumed. You can make yogurt from the store, and not from anyone, but preferably from the one on which it is written that it is made from natural (whole) cow's milk (its fat content is usually indicated as 3.4-6%). Drinking such milk in its pure form is not worth it, because it is pasteurized and with its regular use, after a while, the joints will start to hurt - most likely due to the deposition of inorganic calcium in them, which appears during pasteurization (it passes from an organically bound form to an inorganic one) . But you can make yogurt out of it - it turns out quite well and does not cause problems.

But any milk normalized for fat content is a real poison. And even yogurt from such milk turns out to be unimportant, except that from milk with a fat content of no more than 1% - lactobacilli at the very least cope with such concentrations of modified milk fat.

GMO - manufacturing company:

Milky Way

Uncle Bans

Coca Cola

Parmalat (cookies)

Similak (baby food)

Potato (from Monsant USA)

LIST OF INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURERS NOTICED TO USE GMOS:

''Greenpeace'' has published a list of companies that use GMOs in their products. Interestingly, in different countries, these companies behave differently, depending on the legislation of a particular country.

In total, more than 120 names (brands) of products with GMOs are registered in Russia, according to the data of voluntary registration and a special register of products imported from abroad. Among the manufacturers whose products contain GMOs are:

OOO ''Daria - semi-finished products'', OOO ''Meat-packing plant Klinskiy'', MPZ ''Taganskiy'', MPZ ''KampoMos'', CJSC ''Vichiunay'', OOO ''MLM-RA'', OOO '' Talostoprodukty'', LLC ''Sausage plant'' Bogatyr'', LLC ''ROS Mari Ltf''.

Unilever manufacturing company: Lipton (tea), Brooke Bond (tea), ''Beseda'' (tea), Calve (mayonnaise, ketchup), Rama (butter), ''Pyshka'' (margarine), ''Delmi'' (mayonnaise, yogurt, margarine), ''Algida'' (ice cream), Knorr (seasonings); Nestle manufacturing company: Nescafe (coffee and milk), Maggi (soups, broths, mayonnaise, Nestle (chocolate), Nestea (tea), Neseiulk (cocoa);

Company manufacturer Kellog's: Corn Flakes (flakes), Frosted Flakes (flakes), Rice Krispies (flakes), Corn Pops (flakes), Smacks (flakes), Froot Loops (colored cereal rings), Apple Jacks (flake rings with apple flavor), Afl-bran Apple Cinnamon/Blueberry (bran with apple, cinnamon, blueberry flavors), Chocolate Chip (chocolate chips), Pop Tarts (stuffed cookies, all flavors), Nulri grain (filled toast, all types) , Crispix (cookies), All-Bran (cereal), Just Right Fruit & Nut (cereal), Honey Crunch Corn Flakes (cereal), Raisin Bran Crunch (cereal), Cracklin'Oat Bran (cereal);

Hershey's Manufacturing Company: Toblerone (chocolate, all types), Mini Kisses (candy), Kit-Kat (chocolate bar), Kisses (candy), Semi-Sweet Baking Chips (cookies), Milk Chocolate Chips (cookies), Reese 's Peanut Butter Cups (peanut butter), Special Dark (dark chocolate), Milk Chocolate milk chocolate), Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup), Special Dark Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup), Setoawberry Syrup (strawberry syrup);

Mars Manufacturing Company: M&M'S, Snickers, Milky Way, Twix, Nestle, Crunch (chocolate rice cereal), Milk Chocolate Nestle (chocolate), Nesquik (chocolate drink), Cadbury (Cadbury/Hershey's), Fruit

Heinz manufacturing company: Ketchup (regular&no salt) (ketchup), Chili Sauce (Chili sauce), Heinz 57 Steak Sauce (sauce for meat);

Coca-Cola manufacturing company: Coca Cola, Sprite, Cherry Cola, Minute Maid Orange, Minute Maid Grape;

PepsiCo manufacturing company: Pepsi, Pepsi Cherry, Mountain Dew;

Frito-Lay / PepsiCo: (GM components may be contained in oil and other ingredients), Lays Potato Chips (all), Cheetos (all);

Manufacturing company Cadbury /Schweppes:7-Up, Dr. pepper;

Pringles Procter&Gamble: Pringles (Original, LowFat, Pizzalicious, Sour Cream&Onion, Salt&Vinegar, Cheezeums flavored chips).

1 Hershey's Cadbury Fruit&Nut chocolate products

6 Cadbury chocolate, cocoa

8 Nestle chocolate ''Nestle'', ''Russia''

9 Nestle Nesquik Chocolate Drink

10 Soft drink Sosa-Cola ‘‘Coca-Cola’’ Sosa-Cola

11 ‘‘Sprite’’, ’’Fanta’’, tonic ’’Kinley’’, ’’Fruittime’’

12 Pepci-Co Pepsi 13 ''7-Up'', ''Fiesta'', ''Mountain Dew''

14 Kellogg's breakfast cereal

15 Campbell Soups

16 Rice Uncle Bens Mars

17 Sauces Knorr

18 Lipton Tea

19 Parmalat cookies

20 Seasonings, mayonnaises, Hellman's sauces

21 Seasonings, mayonnaises, Heinz sauces

22 Nestle baby food

24 Abbot Labs Similac

25 Yoghurts, kefir, cheese, baby food Danon

26 McDonald's (McDonald's) fast food restaurant chain

27 chocolate, chips, coffee, baby food Kraft (Kraft)

28 ketchups, sauces. Heinz Foods

29 baby food, products ''Delmi'' Unilever (Unilever)

Products in the preparation technology of which GMOs are used:

AOOT ''Nizhny Novgorod Oil and Fat Plant'' (mayonnaises ''Ryaba'', ''For the future'', etc.).

Products ''Bonduelle'' (Hungary) - beans, corn, green peas.

CJSC ''Baltimore-Neva'' (St. Petersburg) - ketchups.

CJSC ''Mikoyanovsky meat-packing plant'' (Moscow) - pastes, minced meat.

ZAO YUROP FOODS GB'' (Nizhny Novgorod region) - soups ''Galina Blanca''.

Concern ''White Ocean'' (Moscow) - chips ''Russian Potato''.

OJSC ''Lianozovsky Dairy Plant'' (Moscow) - yogurts, ''Miracle Milk'', ''Miracle Chocolate''.

OJSC ''Cherkizovsky MPZ'' (Moscow) - frozen minced meat.

LLC ''Campina'' (Moscow region) - yoghurts, baby food.

LLC ''MK Gurman'' (Novosibirsk) - pastes.

LLC ''Frito'' (Moscow region) - chips ''Layz''.

OOO ''Ermann'' (Moscow region) - yoghurts.

OOO ''Unilever CIS'' (Tula) - mayonnaise ''Calve''.

Factory ''Bolshevik'' (Moscow) - cookies ''Jubilee''.

- ''Nestle'' (Switzerland, Finland) - dry milk mixture ''Nestogen'', mashed potatoes ''Vegetables with beef''.

Pay attention to how carefully products for children are screened out - everywhere there are GMOs, not there, and if your child does not eat yogurt, then he eats Nesquik or cereal or mashed potatoes. And one way or another, but GMO gets

into his body. In supermarkets, this is the situation now: absolutely all products are labeled ''GMO-free''. We read the composition on the label: modified soy, modified starch, and so on.

With the ubiquity of unadvertised chemical additives, the use of GM raw materials and other nasty things, you need to be very careful about what you buy in grocery stores. The article provides some recommendations for choosing healthy foods.

GMOs - not GMOs? How to distinguish?

First, let me start by saying that it is quite difficult to determine the presence of GMOs in a product in the laboratory. There is a huge error.

And two - this is that the method of determination itself is far from perfect. A gene is inserted into a specific section of DNA. And if, for example, a gene is integrated incorrectly, not into this assigned link, then it will not be detected. Just as they will not find the built-in gene of any other type of GM organism - because it is a different gene, and is built into a different link. And they are looking for a specific match.

Well, for example. Let's take a potato. GM potatoes with the scorpion gene. Once in the laboratory, they will first check how many types of GM potatoes are registered that are allowed for sale on the territory of the Russian Federation. For example, 3. One - with the snowdrop gene inserted in one section of the chain, the other - with the crocodile gene inserted in a completely different place, and the third with the Colorado potato beetle gene inserted in a different section of DNA. Thus, even if your potato is definitely GMO, but this type of GMO is not certified, the scorpion gene will never be determined. Just because going through the entire DNA chain and checking it thoroughly for ALL POSSIBLE invariant inserts is an almost impossible task! In any case, it is so costly and time-consuming that it is unrealistic.

And now - attention. In Russia, there are very few types of GM products registered and allowed for sale.

BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THERE ARE FEW GMOS IN RUSSIA. THIS ONLY MEANS THAT IT IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO IDENTIFY IT IN OUR LABORATORIES.

Therefore, forget about labeling. We will go the other way.

To begin with, it should be understood that the GROWING of GM products is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation, but its sale to the public is allowed. Naturally, they, the bastards, need our lands, and we ourselves are the ballast that they are trying to get rid of.

Therefore, products grown on state farms of the Russian Federation are most likely not GM products. If state farms buy seeds from a reliable source, or use their own seed stock, then this is definitely a pure species.

However, the problem is that today there are almost no state farms left. All the land was bought or leased by foreign agricultural holdings (naturally, registered to the Russian uncle Vasya). So, these agricultural holdings are sowing and planting frank muck in our country. And sprinkle abundantly with the same muck.

Especially in the case of rent. They take the land for 5 years, and kill capitally during this time. All sorts of GMOs, fertilizers, growth hormones and roundups.

Basically, these products were processed - into chips, for example, canning, soups and fast food, briquettes ... etc. Because before people did not take such vegetables and fruits. So far, they were normal, and people could compare and choose.

Therefore, try to buy as few semi-finished products as possible - dumplings, dumplings, pancakes, pizza, etc. These products, as a rule, are simply crammed with transgenes.

However, now there are almost no quality vegetables left. Private farmers just have, which is becoming less and less. Again, how conscientious are they and what kind of seeds are they buying?.. Basically, everyone has already been taught GMO poison, and in any case, they don’t sell nasty things IN THE REGION. If he has grown disgusting, then they go to sell away from home.

By the way, in our country a sufficient amount of really high-quality, elite products is still being grown. All of it is for export. And GMOs are imported to us in exchange.

Now about specific products.

I am convinced that hypermarkets sell mainly poison. In any case, imported products that fall into our hypernets are products of large food transcorporations. It is foolish to think that their food can be natural. Ordinary Russian farmers will not get on the counter of a hypermarket. In order for, for example, CROSSROADS to take your goods, you need to pay several tens of thousands of dollars in bribes. The same is true for other networks.
However, for the most part, all of our traditional cereals are non-GMO. Including food peas and beans. Bye. (I'm not talking about green peas). American GMOs are already starting to buy wheat - and they are driving their own quality for export.

Basically, our wheat is still good. Like flour and pasta. Rice. Question. Krasnodar seems to be natural. Expensive varieties of rice, eminent ones, are also real. Basmati, for example. Anything steamed and polished there is highly doubtful.

Buckwheat. Ideal cereal. She and the groats of a raw foodist - buckwheat can be poured overnight with water or kefir and it will swell, become porridge. This porridge can be eaten raw. This is the most helpful! In extreme cases, you can boil. And buckwheat is also valuable in that its genetic modification does not work out in any way. :))) In a word - good food.

The same goes for white cabbage. It's not GMO. Can not be. Therefore, eat boldly. Stew, boil, make salads, sour, bake, gnaw on leaves ... It's so useful! Especially for our region.

All other crops are genetically modified.

So how do you define them anyway?

Let's start with fruits.

Fruit trees of the countries of the former USSR are definitely not GMOs. Therefore, you can take Russian apples, and Abkhazian tangerines, and Uzbek pomegranates, and grapes ... Russian cherries, berries ... all this is ours, native and natural.

But with the countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Israel, India, China, Latin America, Argentina, the USA, Canada, Europe, it is not at all so rosy. Transgenes have been grown there for a long time. Transgenic bananas, oranges, kiwi, grapes, and further down the list… Ending with corn, tomatoes and green peas. Therefore, I do not advise you to take risks. Yes, avocados, which seem to be real so far - they smell good and have a pronounced taste, .. and there are good pineapples ... but run into ...

Imported strawberries will definitely not come to us natural. You yourself know how it smells and how much strawberries lie from the garden. Or from a grandmother's basket. It has nothing to do with what they call strawberries and sell in stores.

By the way, this is one of the basic rules: a natural product smells. Smells like nectar. He is fragrant. GMO either does not smell, or smells “somehow wrong”, unpleasant. Do you like, for example, how bananas smell? I don't. I lived in Egypt for a long time, and I know how REAL bananas smell. It's the same with taste. Natural product is delicious. He wants to eat. GMO - has a taste, something repulsive.

Remember this rule. If you bought a product, but its taste seems repulsive, unpleasant, tasteless to you - do not eat it. This is a sure sign of poison. It won't bring you health.

A few words about China.

I wouldn't buy Chinese food at all. In addition to dried seaweed. Everything else is doubtful. Even GMO tea. Definitely GM Chinese pears. In the state where they grow these pears, all the bees have died out. And they pollinate their pears by hand. Tobacco, it was with GMO tobacco many years ago that China began its transgenization.

Yes, here is another important point. GM products are fruitless. And it has little or no growth momentum. That is, if you eat a tangerine, and the bone in it already contains a green living embryo, this is a real tangerine. And he is full of vitality. This rule applies to all products. A potato, if it grows, is already a good indicator. It is most likely non-GMO. And certainly not treated with radiation. Yes, yes, now to store the potato crop, it is industrially irradiated with radiation. To not grow. And then in the spring they sell it to us.

As for cheese and dairy. Basically, now GM starter cultures have been added to cheeses. By the way, Oltermani is also in doubt. Because wherever microbiological starter is written, we are talking about GM bacteria.

GM sourdough in almost all sour creams. The best option is cream (sour cream) from a private thrush. Precisely modified all dairy products with the “BIO” mark. biokefirs, bioyogurts, etc. I looked at certificates. These are GM components.

Whole modified soy. DO NOT believe that a good one is being sold to you. Just like milk powder, cream powder. They are almost always diluted with soy milk. Soy is also found in sweets and candies. Confectionery - vegetable cream cakes - this is soy GM cream.

Badyazhat the same cottage cheese. Read the ingredients carefully. Taste it. Find one that's good and stick with it. Or buy from a private seller.

One of the most reliable sources of healthy products is our Slavic grandparents (not to be confused with migrant stalls, where the same low-quality imported products are mainly brought)

Bread that stays fresh for a long time almost certainly contains GMOs. The products of such companies as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mars, Kettberry, Snickers were convicted by Greenpeace of using transgenes. Categorically do not buy Nestlé, Danone, Similak products. That's really where the weapon of genocide. They screwed up on many points. And GMOs are among the first. In general, it is better not to take imported ... Although. now almost all Russian enterprises have been bought out by the same foreign transcorporations. And they drive the same nonsense under Russian brands there ...

GMOs are not planted in Belarus. You can buy green peas and other canned food from them. Therefore, their milk is of high quality. So strikingly different in taste from ours. In Russia, too, there are zones that have declared themselves free from GMOs. For example, the Belgorod region. Feel free to buy their products. From potatoes to granulated sugar with milk.

Lots of GMO drugs now. It is better to refuse them altogether. From GM interferon… to GM insulin… GM nutritional supplements…

AND IN GENERAL, YOU CAN LIVE. At first it is difficult, but then you can learn to navigate. Stick to the basic rules, trust your body. Eat more homemade, natural, then your sensitivity to chemistry will sharply increase.

Well, land now. Have your own, from the garden, potatoes, currants, strawberries, cherries and apples .... - it's so wonderful!!!

Health to you. And prosperity.

Every second perceives the inscription "without GMOs" as a kind of signal - "must be taken." But, as the survey shows, the percentage of those who actually understand what the abbreviation GMO means is quite small. Even fewer people understand what is hidden behind the “non-GMO” label, what products can have this label, whether the absence of a label means that the product necessarily contains this very GMO and whether it should be afraid.

What is GMO

Remember how you buy vegetables in a supermarket or market. Most of us, when choosing, are sure to look for the smoothest and largest tubers. If - then the reddest. If - then a bigger carcass. A good leaf, in our opinion, must necessarily be a bright green color, and if you buy, then by all means of such sizes that will surprise even the most experienced farmer.

We return home with a full basket of selected products for lunch or dinner and do not even realize that the very fruits that seem most attractive to us are often genetically modified.

A GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) is an organism whose genes have been deliberately altered by humans. To make it easier to understand what GMO products are, we recall that all hereditary information, both in human organisms and in animals and plants, is stored in DNA.

In the process of gene modification, changes are artificially made in DNA. Often this is done at the expense of the genes of other organisms, that is, genes from other organisms are added to the original genome. As a result, if not something completely new, then with characteristics that differ from the "source" appears. By the way, it is this technique that is used in selection. Gene modifications in our time can be produced in three ways:

• by changing the activity of genes present in the body;
• copying existing genes and introducing a copy into the body;
• mixing genes of two different species in one organism (created by a transgene).

Tobacco was the first plant to undergo genetic modification. And the tomato was the first modified organism to be marketed. It happened in 1994. In both cases, the intervention in the genotype was to increase the hardiness of the product during transport, as well as to accelerate the growth of the plant.

Today, scientists recognize that modified plants are more resistant to climatic factors, adapt better and grow faster even in poor soil. In addition, such products look better: they are larger, brighter and have a longer shelf life. Some researchers argue that GMO foods can solve the problem of world hunger. However, studies by the UN indicate that world hunger is not the result of a lack of food, but a consequence of the improper distribution of food around the planet.

GMOs in agriculture

The purpose of any manipulations with genes is primarily to correct the characteristics of the product: improve or add new ones. If the majority of consumers are distrustful of genetic engineering products, then GMOs can sometimes be a real salvation for farmers. For example, farmers have long dreamed of being able to sow beets earlier than traditional agricultural dates in order to harvest faster and more often. However, this number does not work with an ordinary vegetable, since beet seedlings may not survive spring frosts. But this problem was solved by genetics. They introduced the northern fish gene into the vegetable and thus obtained a transgenic beet that is resistant even to 6-degree frost. Scientists introduced the same gene into some varieties of tomatoes and. To prevent pests from eating corn, the genes of poisonous snakes are introduced into it. And in order for cattle to gain mass faster, they are stuffed with growth hormone.

In addition, modified crops show high resistance to herbicides. This advantage is usually used when growing soybeans. Plants with GMOs react less painfully to pests, including various infections, viruses, fungi, and bacteria. By the way, it is for this reason that tobacco, regular and potatoes are often subjected to genetic modification. GMOs increase the plant's tolerance to changes in weather conditions. For example, resistance to frost, drought and soil salinity appears. For example, after genetic intervention, it becomes not only more resistant to natural conditions, but also acquires the ability to absorb heavy metals from the soil. On the one hand, such a plant is useful as a "nurse" of the environment, but on the other hand, it is absolutely impossible to eat such a product.

After the intervention of geneticists, many fruits and vegetables retain their freshness much longer than nature intended.

Often this kind of change is carried out in the genetic code of tomatoes, strawberries, and. With the help of genetic modification, it is possible to achieve an increase in the size of vegetables, fruits, and even cereal grains.

Potential Benefits of GMO Foods

Some in defense of genetic engineering give examples of GMO products created for the needs of different patients. For example, by genetic engineering, the amount of phytoestrogens in food can be adjusted. These are chemical compounds that resemble the human hormone estrogen. Phytoestrogens contained in plant foods can reduce the risk of atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, breast cancer, and also alleviate the symptoms of menopause in women. So geneticists have learned to artificially increase the level of these substances in plant foods.

For some people, a modified one may be more acceptable. In particular, we are talking about hypertension. They, as you know, categorically cannot be abused. Therefore, geneticists "conjured" and created a coffee that contains 70% less caffeine than regular coffee.

Why "non-GMO" is better

But still, a larger number of the world's population is distrustful of genetically modified foods. The main argument against GMO food is research evidence that long-term consumption of transgenic food can have a detrimental effect on our health and our descendants.

Studies in mice have shown that animals receiving modified corn begin to show reduced fertility in the 3rd to 4th generation. Everything would be fine, but, as practice shows, in 90% of cases, the results characteristic of mice are also confirmed in humans. That is, people who consume GMO food theoretically expect the same fate as experimental mice.

GMO foods show a high allergenic potential, and they also usually contain fewer nutrients than natural foods. Moreover, many plant species contain small amounts of poisons. In natural products, the amount of toxins is negligible and safe for humans. In plants that have been genetically modified, the levels of toxic substances can increase, making them unsafe to eat. It is believed that the consumption of genetically modified foods can cause a wide variety of diseases, including antibiotic resistance.

This food is a new invention. It has not been long enough to understand the exact impact of GMOs on human health in the long term. The consequences of the constant use of such food are not known to anyone, so many people prefer to avoid GMOs. The most commonly cited health risks associated with the consumption of GMO foods are: impaired immunity, resistance to antibiotics, reduced fertility, metabolic disorders, increased risk of cancer.

What does the non-GMO label say?

The non-GMO label allows the consumer to obtain information about the origin of the food. The Consumer Protection Act provides for the labeling "non-GMO" only on products that do not contain genetically modified organisms. Imported food that does not contain GMOs can be recognized by the inscriptions Organic, Non-GMO, GMO (crossed out word). Domestic - according to the labeling "GMO-free", "Does not contain GMOs" or "GOST R 57022-2016". The latter also indicates the natural origin of the product.

It must be understood that the inscription "non-GMO" is not a guarantee that the modified components in the product are completely absent.

Even this label suggests the presence of GMOs in the product, but not more than 1%. On some products, the “traces” of genetic engineering can be hidden behind food additives E, and on food of American origin, a special code with the first digit 8 can tell about the presence of GMOs. But if the text or graphic designation “non-GMO” can be seen on many products, then a special labeling for the identification of GMO food does not exist today. That is, so far no one can oblige the manufacturer to indicate on the product label that it contains GMOs. True, according to the law, in Russia it is forbidden to produce and sell food with GMOs. But one cannot ignore the fact that there are imported goods on the food market, which may well be the result of the work of geneticists.

Nevertheless, experts have compiled a list of products that are potentially dangerous in terms of GMO content. It:

• tinted, sweetened and containing;
• popcorn, chips, crackers;
• soy and cheese;
• fruits and vegetables (especially apples, tomatoes);
• dried fruits (often treated with modified oil);
• meat semi-finished products.

How to recognize foods with and without GMOs

If the product does not contain GMOs, then the manufacturer, as a rule, must indicate this on the label. Another thing is modified products, especially vegetables and fruits without branded packaging. They certainly do not put stamps "GMO" or "non-GMO". But experienced farmers can recognize "suspicious" plants.

For example, ordinary potatoes, after peeling or chopping, usually darken within 30 minutes. Its GMO sister, containing much more, does not turn black sometimes even for several hours. If the tomatoes on the supermarket shelf are all like a selection: almost the same shape, size and color, they can also be suspected of unnaturalness. If you come across, more tender and more crispy than usual, seedless grapes or suspiciously sweet-tasting strawberries, you can be sure that genetics have also “shamanized” them. And if you prefer yellow rice, you can be sure of two things. Firstly, such a product contains more than usual. Secondly, scientists also managed to work on it, who introduced the genes of the narcissus and the bacterium Erwina uredovoora into the cereal. This type of cereal contains almost 20 times more vitamin A than regular rice.

Yellow rice was created specifically for residents of developing countries, where children often suffer from blindness due to beriberi.

Natural fruits and vegetables can be distinguished from "artificial" ones by their natural shades and aromas. In addition, a natural fruit does not have to look perfect. GMOs, on the contrary, have an impeccable appearance and often an unnatural color and smell (or its complete absence).

The most famous GMO foods

Tomatoes. The first GMO tomato differed from its counterparts in that it tolerated transportation better and stayed fresh longer. Scientists have achieved this by reducing the activity of the gene responsible for the process of ripening and softening tomatoes. Modern "laboratory" tomatoes have further improved in these characteristics.

Soy. Modified soybeans are resistant to glyphosate, a herbicide used to control weeds. In addition, transgenic soybean plants are highly resistant to pests.

Potato. Thanks to genetic engineering, this vegetable has also become more resistant to herbicides and viruses, has stronger stems and a longer shelf life. In addition, raw GMO potatoes have fewer glycoalkaloids, which are considered dangerous to humans.

Strawberry. Thanks to GMOs, the berry has become sweeter, spoils more slowly and is not afraid of frost.

Sugar beet. Genetics have made it resistant to herbicides and pests, and have also rewarded it with a longer shelf life without loss of content.

Bananas. GMO fruits are resistant to fungi and viruses, which allows you to transport products without loss of goods.

Grape. Seedless varieties of berries, beloved by many, are also the result of the work of genetic scientists.

Milk. Genetic engineers justify the development of GMO milk with the desire to create a product that would not cause. To do this, scientists "improved" cow's milk with human genes.

GMOs in the modern world

A report by the International Institute for the Propagation of Biotechnological Crops (ISAAA) states that in 2007 the area under cultivation of genetically modified plants was about 114.3 hectares, which is about 12% more than in 2005. And in 2015, this area increased to 200 million hectares and continues to grow. The leading countries in the cultivation of GMO plants are the USA, Argentina, Canada, Brazil, China, and South Africa. On the territory of Russia, GMOs can only be used in laboratory research. The presence of modified substances in food products is prohibited.

Genetically modified products have both advantages and disadvantages. Genetic engineering techniques are used for both plants and animals. Influencing the genomes of organisms, scientists pursue different goals. Among other things - to increase resistance to herbicides, pests and viral infections. For farmers, this may be the ideal solution. The question is how GMOs affect our health. Therefore, while there is no reliable data confirming the safety of one or another modified organism, there is a reason to give preference to a natural product without GMOs.