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A 7 page paper discussing this topic from social, geographic and anthropological perspectives. Many are fearful of using genetically modified foods, but there is no real evidence assessing long term effects either good or bad. However, loss of the natural form is the functional equivalent of extinction, and we can never know when new insights or new technological advances will reveal benefits of natural life forms crucial to human survival. If the natural form disappears before those capabilities come to be, then we can miss out on benefits that can be integral to our ultimate survival. This is the point at which interdisciplinary considerations converge. Each has a different perspective, but each ultimately is concerned with loss of the natural form. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSgenEngFood.rtf
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The technology existed, and the idea just seemed so simple. American producers of sunflower oil were running out of markets for their product. Certainly there were other
crops they could have grown, but the agricultural counterpart of retooling was prohibitively expensive. Besides, sunflower oil is valuable in the commercial food industry, both for value-added processors and
for home use. The problem had been that sunflowers are notorious for taking up heavy metal contamination in the soil, making them excellent
for reclaiming contaminated soil but less than ideal for using for oil production unless grown in pristine environments in which the soil is environmentally clean. Development of an engineered
soybean that did not take up those heavy metal contaminants saved the export side of the US sunflower oil industry, particularly after Germany lifted its ban on the import of
US sunflower oil. That ban went right back in place some time later when concerns over genetically modified foods came to be more
common. The effect has been that production in 2000 was 17 percent lower than in 1999, which was 32 percent lower than in 1998 (USDA announces 2000 sunflower production).
Sunflower oil producers once again are in trouble, and no one knows what effect - if any - that genetically modified foods have on humans or on their ecosystem.
Possible Research Questions Health scientists, plant geneticists and plant seed producers all over the world are investigating whether there is any long
term effect on humans or the environment stemming from the use of genetically modified foods. Basing research questions on whether claims of harm have any biological basis likely are
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