Archive for July, 2010

Long Lasting Controversy on Genetically Modified Products (GMP)

July 26th, 2010 -- Posted in Common | No Comments »

There’s a long lasting debate about Genetically Modified Products (GMP) especially on food products. Lots of people said that GMP is the answer for soaring demand of food while others denied it and recall that GMP has more bad effects than a good one.

GMP has been widely used in food industry today. Like it or not, most of our food products in the market are made from ingredients come from genetically modified crops or organisms. GMP is really fit the concept of high scale farming. With genetic modification, we can get seed with much higher productivity and also better resistance against disease and parasites. It could also produce livestock with higher amount of meat or milk production. The high concern on GMP is about the safety. It comes from the fact that to built plant resistance on certain disease or insects, the gene to produce particular toxin is inserted to the plant genes. The safety issue is whether the toxin produced by GMP could give bad effect to human body.

There’ll be long lasting controversy about safety issue on GMP. But it isn’t all about health and safety issue. GMP is a real proof of corporation domination. As the company holds the patent for the GMP crop, farmers must buy the seed and become very depended to the company. Off course it is against the fair trade concept.

Vegetarianism: Pros and Cons

July 12th, 2010 -- Posted in Vegetarian | No Comments »

As most of us already knew, vegetarians avoid animal-based products in their diet. Some people choose being a vegetarian as their life style for religious belief while other found that vegetarianism could make their lifestyle much better and much healthy.

Lots of people consider being vegetarian as honorable as they are respecting life. It is also said that vegetarianism is also much healthy as they don’t get bad effect of cholesterols and other substances found on meat. That’s from the pros of vegetarianism. But the cons also have arguments on nutritional controversy on vegetarian diet. The fact is there are essential nutrients only found on meat of fish. Vegetarian diet is actually if it is based on vegetables, beans or grains. But as a matter a fact, most vegetarian diets are based on high carbs and we know that there’re bad effects of high carbs diet.

Beyond the nutritional factors of vegetarian diet, it also has issues on other factors. As vegetarian diet is based on fresh vegetables, fruits and beans, you need to see the fact that those could be genetically modified products (GMP). Not to mention the chemical residues from the farming system. Thinking about organic foods? Well, you will be amazed on the fact that those products could be very expensive.