GM food for business

What are Koreans eating now?

GM is an abbreviation for ‘genetically modified’, so GM food is a genetically modified food. As the technology has developed, various GM foods have been invented. Scientists who have researched technology of GM food insist on it would be a useful method to make life better. Nevertheless, the safety of GM food is not confirmed yet. Usually experts say, after something is invented, if time goes by from one generation to the next with no problem, safety of the something can be believed; however, time about GM food doesn’t pass by, even one generation yet. Nobody can be sure about the safety of GM food.

Most GM foods are used for a business purpose. When we compare of a GM food and an organic food, a GM food could be made much cheaper than an organic food. Thus, the price of a GM food product could be cheaper than an organic product. Because business people can provide a food as a cheap price to a market, they can get much more money than before. Some of experts say that GM food is useful, in case a war happen and we need to give foods to a poor country like Africa, which is lack of a food. If it is, we will be able to cover many problems in the world. It may be really demanded to us, but the problem is that GM food has been used for other purpose so far. It has been used for business.

Nowadays, many GM foods have been consumed in Korea. There are many markets which sell GM food. After FTA (Free Trade Agreement) between Korean and USA, a lot of GM food that are produced in USA, have come to Korea, however most Korean seem not to care about GM food. They are just choosing a GM food, because it is cheaper than an organic food or because they don’t know that something, they choose, is GM food, so education about GM food is really needed for preventing this phenomenon. We should educate people about the possibilities that GM foods could be dangerous. Even if we inform them the danger, if they are insisting on eating GM food, it is their free will, but at least, to inform the truth about GM food is our duty.

We need GM food in case a war happen, because a war could be a food war and many Africa children have died as they don’t have enough food to eat. It is really the severe problem. To block the problems, we need the GM food and the GM technology, but we must consider the danger which GM food has. We have to educate people who don’t have enough information about GM food. The more many people have interests about GM food, the better the situation will be.