Benefits

  • Safety
    • We have many safeguards in place
  • Crops
    • Enhanced taste and quality 
    • Better texture, flavor, nutritional value
    • Reduced maturation time
    • Increased nutrients, crop yields, and stress tolerance
    • Improved resistance to disease, pests, and herbicides
    • Better crop yield, more efficient use of land
    • Longer shelf life, easier shipment
    • New products and growing techniques
    • Less herbicides and other chemicals
  • Animals
    • Increases resistance, productivity, hardiness, and feed efficiency in animals.
    • Better yields of meat, eggs, and milk
    • It helps improves animal health and diagnostic methods
  • Environment
    • Theses are friendly bio herbicides and bio insecticides
    • It helps conserves soil, water, and energy
    • Bioprocessing for forestry products
    • It's Better natural waste management
    • It's a more efficient processing
  • Society
    • Increased food security for growing populations

Controversies

  • Safety
    • Potential human health impacts, including allergens, transfer of antibiotic resistance markers, unknown effects
    • Hazardous genes from GE foods that you eat can become inserted into your own genes
  • Animals
    • Animals have become seriously ill or died from Genetically Engineered foods
    • Potential environmental impacts, including: unintended transfer of transgenes through cross-pollination, unknown effects on other organisms (e.g., soil microbes), and loss of flora and fauna biodiversity

  • Access and Intellectual Property
    • Domination of world food production by a few companies
    • Increasing dependence on industrialized nations by developing countries
    • Biopiracy, or foreign exploitation of natural resources
    • Big businesses are imposing on our freedom under the guise of free trade.
  • Ethics
    • Violation of natural organisms' intrinsic values
    • Tampering with nature by mixing genes among species
    • Religious and vegetarian groups would object to genes from some species.
    • Stress for animal
    • It's unnatural.
    • Agriculture is already too technological. This will only make it worse.
  • Labeling
    • Not mandatory in some countries (e.g., United States)
    • Mixing GM crops with non-GM products confounds labeling attempts
  • Society
    • New advances may be skewed to interests of rich countries