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Genetically Engineered Plants Genetic engineering has some history of good and bad. In 1989as a result of the food supplement Typtophan, 37 people died, 1500 were permanently disabled, and 5000 were very ill as result of high toxin levels in the food. No one knows the future side effects. Such as in August 19994, corn crops grew three inches tall and then suddenly fell over dead, because past crops drained the soil of most nutrients. Genetics have some new …

…It will also make the food we produce three times as much. This will help people buy making food in good supply year round, and making it cheaper. It will also be good for us because we can genetically engineer food to aid in curing diseases. We will also need to use less land, by producing more food. All in all, genetics engineering is helpful to mankind to cure problems of food shortage and desases.