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Even as late as mid-2007, the debate showed no signs of abating. The supporters of GM crops argued that it would be foolish to disregard a technology that had huge potential, while critics maintained that 'Frankenfoods'9 were no answer to falling productivity and that the scientific community should come up with more conventional solutions to increase food production.
In the 1950s, with the discovery of the structure of the DNA12, scientists realized that it might be possible to change the genetic signature of an organism so as to bestow traits or characteristics that evolution or selective breeding could not engender. In the 1970s, when the method of isolating and copying genes was developed, the scientific community became aware of the unlimited possibilities of genetic modification...
9] Detractors refer to GM foods as Frankenfoods,
inspired by the character Frankenstein from the 1818 novel of the same name
written by Mary Shelley. |
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