Why are some people opposed to genetically modified foods?

Probably because the fear of the unknown makes people tremble and reminds people of the plots in some TV dramas. At the end of the Qing dynasty, a rich woman asked the fortune teller in the town to take pictures of her. As a result, the fortune teller said, alas, you can't take pictures, it will be fascinating!

Genetically modified food is a kind of food that human scientists "transform" the genes of plants through genetic engineering, so as to obtain more drought resistance, high yield, nutrition and easy storage. Many people think that doing this is an "unnatural" behavior, which is called going against the sky in our more popular language.

However, after so many years of human evolution, climbing to the top of the food chain has never been just for resignation. Is industrialization a natural behavior? Is artificial intelligence a natural behavior? Even though we think that the greenest and most traditional agriculture is a natural behavior?

People choose those seeds with beautiful fruits, full grains and high yield for breeding, in fact, they are constantly "domesticating" the genes of crops.

Genetic engineering has been controversial since its birth, and related research and product listing are actually very rigorous.

From 65438 to 0992, Pioneer Company, the world's largest seed company, introduced Brazil nut gene into soybean, aiming at making up for the shortage of methionine in soybean and making soybean a healthier food.

However, a few people are allergic to Brazil nuts. Test results and calculations show that the new soybean will not cause more than two deaths in one year, but it can save hundreds of thousands of malnourished people around the world. However, Pioneer announced the test results and abandoned the project.

This is actually a positive case with strict style, but it was rewritten by opponents to describe the danger of genetic engineering and the greed of enterprises in business. In fact, the emergence of genetically modified food is because human beings are facing food shortage and malnutrition.

Yes, there is no reliable experimental data to show that genetically modified foods have safety problems. However, it will soon be said that there is no reliable data to show that there is no safety problem in genetically modified foods.

But how did science develop? How did the modern medical methods and drugs we use today come from? There are countless clinical trials, and countless patients try drugs. At the beginning, it is not certain whether a therapy or medicine is absolutely effective, but the disease still needs to be treated, right?

If people all over the world have enough food and balanced nutrition, why spend huge scientific research energy, funds and talents to use genetic engineering?