Biotech smugglers, frustrated with safety regulations, contaminate India's agriculture with GMOs

Scientists have tried to address the problem, genetically modifying seeds with genes from outside sources, like bacteria. These germ genes are inserted into crop DNA to give the plant new powers. For the Bt brinjal seed, scientists are empowering the plant to produce its own internal insecticide. The Bt gene, taken from the germ, Bacillus thuringiensis, provides the plant with over a hundred toxic proteins that enable the plant to ward off pests unnaturally from the inside out. The lab work splice is often quickly approved, patented as the next seed science, but is rarely studied for ecological and long term human health safety.

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