The new article

As I was looking though articles I stubbed across The Boston Globe. In there I found an article called “Gene-altered animals and food safety,” by Rick Weiss. This article talks about what is happening recently in the genetic engineering world. Thanks to the recession many people were not informed about this.

The article starts of by talking about food. As many people already know some of our meats, milk, and cheese come from cloned cows or from their babies. In January the FDA said cloned meat was safe to eat. Now recently the FDA also said that genetically modified animals can also be sold in the market. Would you like a genetically modify steak for dinner? I personally would not. They have added genes in salmon so it can grow faster. Also, they have added a bacterial gene in pigs so they can be a little more environmentally friendly. In cows they have added fish genes to get omega-3 fatty acids. A good hypothetical question Rick asked was “what happens when gene-enhanced salmon escape their offshore cages and mate with their wild cousins?” We may not find out but in all this there is good news. The FDA has strict rules and restriction for the genetically modified food to get to the market. The bad news is that if it approved most details and data will be hidden. They call this “confidential business information.” I mean we all do not know about genetically modified foods and we need information. One thing the FDA can improve on is labeling the modified foods and posting information. Like Rick Weiss said in this article “The United States needs a system for approving some gene-altered animals.”

This article helps you realize all the things the government does behind our back and we do not even know it. I have even learned things that I did not know. For example, I did not know that now it is permitted to sell modified foods. Where has this world gone to?