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The Banning of Hormone Injected and Genetically Engineered Foods.

Date Submitted: 10/14/2004 16:15:56
Category: / Science & Technology / Biology
Length: 3 pages (694 words)
Having freshly grown vegetables and a nice, old fashioned steak may soon be a health risk. With today's new advances in technologies, it seems everything must be improved from its original state. Genetic engineering and hormone injections are two examples of the advances in today's world. With genetic engineering scientists are able to change the DNA in an organism to make it "perfect" for retail, and human consumption. Scientists are able to adjust the DNA …
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…sell this food to consumers. If not there could be many consequences for there actions. These consequences are: being responsible for making people resistant to anti-biotics, creating unknown allergens in foods, and potentially creating toxic crops. These engineers could also create new viruses, and cross contaminated, mutated crops. Therefore hormone and anti-biotic injected meats and genetically engineered foods should be banned for retail in the United States due to their dangerous effects on human health.
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