Bioengineered food on the rise
By
Zeynep Altinay
· Monday, Jan. 25,2010 8:41 p.m.
The case brought up an on-going worldwide debate about the environmental and health impacts of GM food. GM crops have been altered in a way that does not occur with natural conditions. Latest improvements in bioengineering give scientists the opportunity to select certain genes from one organism and apply them to another to get the desired trait. The question, however, remains whether consumers should be able to identify what products are genetically altered. Unlike European nations, the U.S. law does not require labeling for GM products.
