{"id":2044,"date":"2011-01-12T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2011-01-12T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:23:12","slug":"genetically-modified-foods-or-gm-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2044","title":{"rendered":"Genetically Modified Foods or GM Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Genetically modified (GM) foods<\/strong> are foods derived from genetically modified organisms.  Genetically modified organisms have had specific changes introduced  into their DNA by genetic engineering techniques. These techniques are  much more precise than mutagenesis (mutation breeding) where an organism is exposed to radiation or  chemicals to create a non-specific but stable change. Other techniques  by which humans modify food organisms include selective breeding (plant breeding and animal breeding), and somaclonal variation.<\/p>\n<p>GM foods were first put on the market in the early 1990s. Typically,  genetically modified foods are transgenic plant products: soybean, corn, canola, and cotton seed oil. Animal products have also  been developed, although as of July 2010 none are currently on the  market.<sup id=\"cite_ref-0\"><\/sup><sup> <\/sup>In 2006 a pig was controversially<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\"><span> <\/span><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Fiester2006_2-0\"><\/sup> engineered to produce omega-3 fatty acids through the expression of a roundworm gene.<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\"><\/sup>Researchers have also developed a genetically-modified breed of pigs  that are able to absorb plant phosphorus more efficiently, and as a  consequence the phosphorus content of their manure is reduced by as much  as 60%.<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Critics have objected to GM foods on several grounds, including  possible safety issues,<sup id=\"cite_ref-NRC2004_5-0\"><\/sup>ecological concerns, and economic concerns raised by the fact that these  organisms are subject to intellectual property law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods derived from genetically modified organisms. Genetically modified organisms have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering techniques. These techniques are much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2044\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[562],"tags":[7262,7263,7264,7265,7266,7267,7268,7269,7270,7271,4557,7272],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","tag-biological-engineering","tag-bt-cotton","tag-controversially-engineered","tag-dna","tag-genetic-engineering","tag-genetic-engineering-techniques","tag-genetically-modified-crops","tag-genetically-modified-foods","tag-genetically-modified-foods-or-gm-foods","tag-genetics","tag-gm-foods","tag-omega-3-fatty-acids","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}