Are Transgenics Dangerous?

Well, first, for those who do not know, to put it simply, transgenics are genetically modified, which can be animals, plants and microorganisms in a process in which there are new organisms that would never have existed naturally.

To give an example if we have a tomato crop that is being affected by a plague , we could take a cell that has a melon that produces a substance that is able to eliminate the plague and then insert it into the DNA of our tomatoes and modify them genetically to be resistant to the plague and so we would have our transgenic food.

Now that it has been clarified that they are transgenic, we can ask ourselves the following question: Are GM crops dangerous? The answer is no, transgenics alone are not dangerous at all, genetically modified foods go through much higher quality controls than any other type of food, when it comes to taking a transgenic to the market, it is reviewed again and again, if the substances that are produced by the new GM food (Genetically Modified) do not cause any negative effect on the consumer. The main objectives when genetically modifying a food are usually to increase its size, increase its resistance to viruses, fungi, pests, drought or improve its flavor, people who say that GM foods alone are dangerous (which is the general belief) and can cause cancer among other conditions is due to misinformation, or because it has been influenced by pseudo-scientific articles that ensure that GMOs can become dangerous which do not have sufficient evidence or are false.

In fact, transgenics have many advantages, for example: In Hawaii in the late 90's the Ring spot virus affected 90% of the papayas that were grown in Hawaii which caused a fall of more than 50% of the production, by means of genetic engineering it was possible to develop a Papaya genetically modified that was able to resist the virus and recover papaya production in all the islands of Hawaii.