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Published: 18.04.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Genetically Modified Food', 1.
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Recently there has been a debate on whether Australia should embrace or reject the production of "GM food". There are already some GM foods in Australia - but the public just does not realise it. Since GM foods are made in laboratories - people can already guess there are several chemicals used to make these ordinary foods into "super foods". So the question here is, do the benefits out weigh the risks?
GM food is short term for "genetically modified" food. Genetically modified food means the food - for example crops, are given new characteristics by having their DNA altered - or genetically modified. This can be done by scientist, who take a gene from one species and transfer or copy it to the crop.…

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