Genetically modified food is food that has essentially had its DNA changed for one reason or another.  For example, say you have a watermelon, and you want to be able to grow the watermelon in a cooler climate, so that you can have watermelons all year round.  A genetically modified watermelon could accomplish this.  The “seedless” watermellons, grapes, and citrus fruits so bountiful in the supermarket produce section are also genetically modified.  Unadulterated fruit has seeds.  At some point, a scientist demised that a seedless variety would be more convenient for consumers and thus altered the fruit’s DNA to create a new variety.

Genetically modified foods are created with genetic engineering, and it has been causing quite a scene over the past few years.   Many people do not agree with this process, due to the ethics of the practice and the safety of the environment.  It is not always healthy or right for the environment when our crops are genetically modified in order for more to be produced, to make more profit.  But then there is the case of selective breeding, which also creates some uproar within the people.

Selective breeding is basically selecting different traits or characteristics from a parent plant or animal, and using those extracted traits, to create a new type of animal, with the perfect set of traits and characteristics.  This has been considered to be a good type of breeding, but at the same time it is considered a mutation, and nature is like this for a reason, and there is a reason why it is even called nature, because it is natural!  When you are playing around with selective breeding, you are playing around with nature, and in time it might show that, that might not have been such a good idea.

When it comes to GMO, and selective breeding, it seems like it might not be such a smart idea, because not only are you affecting nature, but you are affecting people as well.  It is hard to actually control a GMO crop such as corn, because the seeds can be spread over to another field of crops that is not infected with the GM trait, and then in turn the whole crop is infected, and we might be consuming GMO foods that we were originally trying to stay away from.

Messing with nature might not be such a good idea,  this type of modification within the industry of GM, has not been thoroughly studied, so no one really know the effects these genetically modified foods could have on us in the long run.  Make sure you know what you are consuming before you put it in your mouth, stay as natural as you possibly can, because at this rate GMO foods might just completely take over your grocery store!