This is an interesting question. Because in the vast "genetically modified harmful" question and answer, ask genetically modified on the human body what is the benefit of the question is absolutely a stream of fresh water ah! It is estimated that the friends of the anti-GMO people have all kinds of contempt and greetings to the questioner (sympathize with the questioner for a minute). Since the question is so refreshing to ask, as the research and support of genetic modification I will talk about a few points.

I. Genetically modified products reduce pesticide residues in favor of human health

Insecticides are a large class of pesticides, China as a large country of pesticide use, pesticide residues on the health of consumers is increasingly being, concern. Insect-resistant genetically modified crops greatly reduce the use of pesticides, thereby effectively reducing pesticide residues and reduce the poisoning of applicators.

II. Genetically modified products reduce aflatoxin accumulation

When agricultural products are bitten by insects, the broken grain is susceptible to mold contamination and thus accumulation of aflatoxin which is hazardous to human health. Insect-resistant genetically modified crops can greatly reduce pests and maintain the integrity of the grain to mitigate mold contamination.

III. Genetically modified products to safeguard the needs of special populations for special nutrients

Genetically modified products not only benefit agricultural production, but also improve their quality to ensure the nutritional needs of special populations. Typical examples are golden rice and super bananas, which guarantee the demand for beta carotene by people with hidden hunger, high-vitamin genetically modified products, high-iron, high-zinc, high-manganese and selenium-enriched genetically modified products, and high-folate genetically modified products, which satisfy the human body's need for folate, especially that of pregnant women.

Let's start with these three points, and I'm guessing the brickbats are on their way!

There are no obvious health benefits to eating genetically modified (GM) food, but in some cases, the market will opt for GM for profit reasons.

The most immediate factor is price.

At present, the types of genetically modified food in our country are very limited, the most important of which is cooking oil, and the words "genetically modified" can be seen on the label.

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These genetically modified cooking oils are refined from imported soybeans, canola or corn.

Then we cannot help but ask, since we are so reluctant to accept GM foods, why is there still a market for cooking oil labeled "genetically modified"? Do consumers not recognize the words?

So let's think about this: how many people in the country are now eating out every day?

There are 7 million restaurants in China, with small restaurants making up the majority. Even for small restaurants, the amount of cooking oil used in a year will be close to a huge ton. With so many restaurants in the country, the total amount of cooking oil consumed annually exceeds 10 million tons, about 1/3 of the total consumption of the entire population, and they constitute the main consumption channel for low-priced oil.

When price becomes the first factor, not to mention that genetically modified cooking oil is not harmful to the human body, even gutter oil will be purchased by restaurants. The total amount of gutter oil in the country is about 3 million tons per year, part of which will enter the industrial field such as biodiesel, and some will be through the black industrial chain, and eventually turn into the consumer market. From the successive cases of combating gutter oil, the lack of supervision of small towns and rural areas is the main distribution center of gutter oil, irregular food and oil stores can be found in the figure of gutter oil, and small restaurants are the regular customers of these stores.

Therefore, no matter how great the social fear of "genetically modified" is, as far as the market is concerned, as long as there is no violation of the law, profit is everything. If you don't buy it, there are plenty of people to buy it; if you say you don't eat it, and use your keyboard to curse GMOs, but you don't cook and you can only go to and from low-grade restaurants, then how can you realize your own "faith"?

The reason why GM cooking oil will be cheaper is that these GM crops have substantially increased their yields by improving their properties such as pest resistance, or substantially reduced the pesticides, fertilizers and manpower they have to pay, so the cost is naturally lower.

As far as our country is concerned, apart from genetically modified cooking oil, the other genetically modified food available is papaya, and almost 100 percent of the market is genetically modified papaya. It's not so much the price factor as it is the quality factor.

Papayas, in nature, are highly susceptible to the ringspot virus and then produce papayas that look like this:

(papaya infected with ringspot virus)

So, let's ask ourselves, would we buy such a papaya?

It is not just a matter of buying and selling. Although the ringspot virus is not so serious as to infect human beings, it causes papayas to rot more easily, and after being transported, the resultant economic losses and health risks may be more than expected. Therefore, our country has always been cautious in the approval of genetically modified food, but an exception is made for papaya.

Lastly, as a technology, genetic modification is neither good nor evil; whether it will do harm to the world depends on the application of human beings.

First of all, thank you for your question. Nowadays, GM technology has been applied more and more widely and accepted by the general public. Many countries in the world are carrying out research work on GM food, so does it have advantages over traditional food and what are the advantages? Prof. Luo Yunbo, dean of the School of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering at China Agricultural University, said that GM foods that have passed approval tend to be more nutritious and safer than ordinary foods. The following summarizes what aspects of the benefits of GM foods exist:

Benefit 1: "For example, insect-resistant GM corn will not be bitten by insects, it will reduce the wounds on the corn, and some harmful microorganisms will not be able to invade it, which reduces the chances of microbial infestation, and it is a guarantee for our health." Prof. Luo Yunbo said.

Benefit 2: Prof. Luo Yunbo also emphasized at the same time that compared with non-GMO, there are some GM foods, especially in the future, that add some nutrients that we need. Many of these nutrients are not synthesized by our bodies, which is a great benefit to us.

Benefit 3: Professor Yang Jinghui of Tianjin Agricultural College believes that, because of insect-resistant or disease-resistant GM crops, cultivation and planting can use less pesticides, or even no pesticides, which reduces pesticide residues to a large extent.

Expert Opinion: Yang Jinghui: (Professor of Tianjin Agricultural College) GM food can be consumed without fear, China's safety requirements for GM food determination is very strict, usually after 7 or 8 years, after six testing stages. Crops, for example, the first to carry out laboratory cultivation, after the success of the application for "environmental release" that is, the planting of the normal natural environment, and generally have to be carried out twice, first a small area of planting, and then carry out large-scale test planting, after the safety assessment, and ultimately, will be promoted. For imported genetically modified foods, our government implements stringent testing. At present, the batch test method is used, that is, for every batch of products imported, an inspection will be conducted. The inspection is mainly carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture of China. As long as the GM food products have been tested by our import and export departments, we can consume them without fear. Many experts who have been discussing the safety of genetically modified foods agree that genetically modified foods should not be artificially separated from 'ordinary' foods. Instead, we should look at how the nutritional composition of the GM food formed after genetic modification is different from that of conventional food, and if it is not, then it is safe. Specifically, the principle of substantial equivalence evaluation includes nutritional evaluation (whether there is any change in nutrient composition after genetic modification), toxicological evaluation (whether consumption leads to deformities), and allergenic evaluation (whether there are any allergens in the genetically modified food, and whether it is safe for long-term consumption by the population in a region; new plant proteins may appear after genetic modification, which may lead to allergies); the next principle is to see whether the genetically modified food has caused any change in the genetic material of the species. The third principle is to see whether the new gene has any effect on its own metabolism after it has been changed from the original gene; and the fourth is to see what effect it has on the microbiota of the human gastrointestinal tract after consumption.

I hope the above answer will help you.

The authoritative interpretation of Pharmaceutical Affairs, unauthorized reproduction, plagiarism will be punished.

Recently, the topic of genetically modified (GM) has been spreading like wildfire and controversy, and there are all sorts of topics about GM, such as the European Union and Japan don't eat GM, a French professor fed GM corn to rats to produce tumors, and GM soybeans can cause cancer.

There is even a GM Identification Guide circulating on the Internet, which says that saints' fruits, sweet corn, colored peppers, purple potatoes, as well as wheat, rice, garlic, onions, potatoes, carrots, etc., are all genetically modified foods. So, can GM foods be eaten or not? On this matter, the Ministry of Agriculture took the initiative for the first time to hold a press conference on the topic and made the following response.

To which the Department of Agriculture says it's all rumors!

None of the ones mentioned inside the online "GM Identification Guide" are GM varieties.

Tomatoes were originally small-fruited wild species, and the saints' berries sold in the market are based on wild species, bred by artificial selection, and have nothing to do with genetic modification.

Purple potatoes have anthocyanins in them, which is the reason for their purple color, not because of genetic modification. This pigment has an important role in human health. Black peanut belongs to hybrid varieties, black is natural, by the control of pigmentation genes, its nutritional value is extremely high, do not miss the good food because of "misunderstanding".

Foreigners don't eat genetically modified food?

There are 23 types of GM corn authorized in the European Union alone, in addition to oilseed rape, potatoes, soybeans and sugar beets, the vast majority of which are used for food. The United States is also a major consumer of genetically modified food, with more than 90% of its corn and soybeans being genetically modified crops, and over 3,000 types and brands of genetically modified food produced and sold domestically, and more than 5,000 types of food containing genetically modified ingredients.

GMOs cause cancer and sterility?

There are many rumors about genetic modification, such as "genetically modified corn and soybeans cause cancer", "genetically modified corn causes decreased sperm vitality in Guangxi university students", "eating genetically modified food causes sterility". "Genetically modified potatoes cause poisoning in test rats."

"GM is becoming a killing weapon that surpasses the atomic bomb," "The next generation of weapons: GM makes you die quietly," "Planting GM crops causes land to be scrapped," etc. These rumors are completely These rumors are totally unfounded and have been rejected by the scientific community.

What are the genetically modified varieties on the market?

To date, only insect-resistant cotton and disease-resistant papaya have been approved and commercialized on a large scale in China; in addition, approval has been given for the importation of genetically modified crops for use as raw materials for processing, including soybeans, maize, oilseed rape, cotton and sugar beets.

Are genetically modified products safe?

Products that have been approved for marketing are safe. China's assessment system for genetically modified products, which covers both the product development and production processes, is the strictest in the world.

We can only say that there are rumors every day, and how much can we believe them? Do we have to be in a panic every day and not eat anything? The focus is still clear and rational to deal with, as long as the diet is balanced, adhere to the exercise, in front of the strong body, "genetically modified" and what is it right ~~~

On the debate does not repair as carry saw battle general genetically modified foods, but also put forward what are the benefits of the discipline of this new thing but the argument is to the point of incompatibility, science popularizer will be the existing population in our country is divided into ABC three groups of people, that A class people is to understand the science of the people, B class people are educated people, C class people is illiterate, semi-literate people, only c class people do not speak of science, that the genetically modified to the human body Harmful, only class A people trust genetically modified, said genetically modified harmless, but no national authoritative scientific data to prove harmful and harmless, only class B people are in the crepe attitude, who wins on the winning side of the party who questioned the genetically modified class C party, it is recommended that the first experiment by the class A people harmless, and then to the market should not be overly hasty, if scientific experiments to prove that harmless, which is a major scientific and technological breakthroughs in the scientific community, the name of that Benefit to mankind, if the scientific experimental research is harmful to human beings, science and the culpability of the public can not escape, and will give our country's scientific community smeared black, become the laughing stock of the world of material word, I believe that this new discipline, we must be prudent, it must be the relationship between human life and survival of the major events, is not a daily necessity of life, so the scientific community on the shoulders of the responsibility of Mount Taishan, life is not a child's play, such as not to hold a rigorous scientific attitude towards it, the lesson of sheep death and mending, it will be the first time that we have the opportunity to see the world of science. If we do not treat it with scientific rigor, we will regret it too late!

The person who asked this question had a preconceived idea! We all know that this is a controversial question, so why ask it? What are the health benefits of eating genetically modified foods?

Just now I deliberately modeled my question after the one above by asking: eatWhat are the harmful effects of genetically modified foods on the body?

You guys want to know the conclusion? Look at the screenshot!

Like one of the respondents below, I also think that this is a very good question! The benefits of GM foods to the body I think can be divided into three aspects; one major benefit is the direct benefits that have already been realized, the second is the indirect benefits through the application of GM technology, and the third aspect is the benefits that have not yet been realized, are under development or have been able to be demonstrated in basic research.

From the first aspect, while the mainstream GM technology nowadays mainly realizes economic benefits through the addition of genes for insect-proof proteins (usually Bt) and herbicide-resistant genes, there is already a soon-to-be-marketed (in fact, the product has been mature for a long time, and the lack of marketing is due to regulatory reasons) Golden Rice, which is bio-engineered with two genes for β-carotene synthesis, which can boost the vitamin A content, and this could go a long way toward rescuing the poor who cannot supplement with vitamin A and treating their night blindness and corneal disease. Crops in this area also include rice for lactoferrin production, which has been approved in the United States.

From an indirect point of view, first of all, since the application of crop insecticides will be greatly reduced with the use of insect-resistant genes, this greatly enhances the safety of farmers' operations as well as the safety of their food, which is surely an important health benefit. Also virus-resistant GM papayas, while not intended to enhance the health value of papayas in and of themselves, are commonly afflicted with various diseases due to the non-GM varieties of papayas suffering from the papaya circovirus, which tends to bring about a variety of problems with this fruit such as deterioration, discoloration, odor, mold, and so on, all of which are detrimental to the health of those who consume them. By growing genetically modified papayas that are resistant to the circovirus, papaya eaters have gained health benefits accordingly.

The third area is GM products that are not on the market or under development. Since the main function of this generation of GM products is no longer to solve problems in agricultural production, the enhancement of crop nutrition, the improvement of crop disease resistance traits, and the enhancement of the taste of crops (such as a variety of fruits and tomatoes that are sweeter to eat) have become the main functions of this generation of GM crops. These GM crops will generally enhance human health. And because people are applying molecular genetics at a higher level, their role in people's health will be even greater. The value of GM to people's health will then be straightforward.

It should be noted that the so-called generations of GM technology are mainly relative to their functions. The technology of the new generation of GM crops has actually matured for the most part. However, the higher cost due to stringent regulation and the more lengthy regulatory approvals since most of them are not irreplaceable in agricultural production have led to the delay in seeing most of these GM products. We look forward to a more correct perception of GM technology by the general public, when we will also be able to better enjoy the various benefits of this technology, including their benefits to our bodies.

I've never seen such a shameless question, and I can't believe there was a serious and even more shameless answer that GMOs are so and so nutritious.

Support GMO labeling. Whoever loves it, go ahead and eat it! Those who are responsible for the health of themselves, their families, and especially the elderly and children in their homes, should be cautious!

Can anyone prove that eating genetically modified foods is good for you? What are the benefits? Recent, or long-term objective evidence (not made up or faked)? I guess no one can come up with evidence that can stand the test of time! Perjury is punishable by law! Who is it? Come forward with your evidence!