Genetic Engineering and Developing Countries

Food genetic engineering has been controversial since its appearance in the mid 1980s. As scientists begin to learn more about genetically modified foods and the benefits of these foods, their possibilities are beginning to embody. Developing countries will benefit greatly from processed foods due to malnutrition. Millions of people in developing countries die each year due to lack of nutrition and hundreds of thousands of people are blind. Overpopulation is another problem faced by developing countries, and without food and nutrients survival can be difficult.

In fact, genetic engineering has brought great benefits to society. This is why industrialized countries have invested billions of dollars in genetic engineering technology. Developing countries may now follow it. However, despite its possibilities, each country does not accommodate the adoption of technology. Certainly, we can not stop progress, but without rigorous research, adverse effects can far outweigh the benefits it brings. Genetic engineering, and other technologies can be used for greater or smaller benefits in society, so that requires advanced consciousness and responsibility from the scientific community and other genetic engineering advocates. Therefore, in the current situation, the country should not modify and commercialize living things until extensive R & D research has been conducted to address all the problems raised by the people.

Genetic engineering is a controversial topic around the world as the country divides and opposes fundamental changes in crops and livestock. According to CSIRO, a simple definition of genetic engineering is "to use modern biotechnology to modify genes of organisms such as plants and animals" (CSIRO, 2007). The first step in genetic engineering is the isolation of DNA from organisms. Once DNA strand