Genetically Modified Food (GMF)

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Advantages and Disadvantages of GMO

Advantages

Disadvantages

• Reduce cost of food production
• Reduce problems of crops related to pests
• Reduce usage of pesticides
• Increase nutritional value of crops
• Overcome food shortage 
• Reduces price of food due to Increase in food production

• Endanger natural species
• Foreign gene in GMF may be transferred to humans (for example, antibiotic-resistance gene)
• May have adverse effects on human health 
• May have adverse effect on human genetic contents

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