GM Food and Bioethics

At present, the genetic modification of plants, animals and other organisms has intensified and has allowed developed increasingly sophisticated methods. The creation of transgenic foods, their use and distribution have generated various positions, because there is uncertainty about its effects on human health or the environment. Bioethics is, then, to question what is the best environment for the development of new technologies in food and put in the balance the ideas of the sectors that support or reject the production and use of genetically modified organisms, and thus promotes free and clear knowledge of the information contained in these products. The effects that GM food and its impact on the political, market, society and the environment are some of the points made ​​in this interview played Dr. Enrique Linares Jorge Salgado, Dr. of Philosophy , postgraduate Coordinator in Philosophy of Science, Institute for Philosophical Research , UNAM, who speaks from the perspective of Bioethics and Philosophy of Science from the broad debate that has been around this topic.  
Revista Digital Universitaria : What is the role of bioethics to the production of so-called GM foods?  
Jorge Enrique Linares : As in any biotechnological development , bioethics does fundamentally questions about the social and environmental consequences of these developments and investigate what is the most appropriate criteria or conditions to occur and spread in the world . So are twofold research : both scientifically and technologically , as , of course, a strictly ethical and political grounds .  
RDU : According Bioethics : What problems generated in the social aspect of the production and use of genetically modified foods ?  
JEL : First have to say that there is still a scientific controversy by the possibility of risk of GM foods . Those who are currently in the market say that they are safe , there are no reported incidents allergenic to human health , but even so there is still a scientific debate on the environmental medium and long term consequences. And that's where it would risk ecological order , which are not very clear , and precisely what we have seen in recent years is that these are not easy to measure and that means a long deep both scientific discussion and social , where it enters the Bioethics full, as it is about technological innovations that span the world market, the genetic and environmental negative effects, which could occur, would affect many people and ecosystems . And that means that there should be a public debate and social monitoring or social monitoring of the risks and the effects. Currently one of the most discussed topics is the effect they have on the socio-economic relations. GM were designed from a model of industrial production tends to monopolization of the agricultural market, that was the main purpose of his invention, for putting it on the market, although the companies that developed them still insist on their direct benefits to raise food production, and even trying to take their projects with a humanitarian alo saying it will help reduce world hunger. On the other hand, it is still true that, if the general data in the world are, there is still a deficit of global hunger, the problem is not production but distribution costs in the market. One of the most debated issues currently are the socio-economic risks : market monopolisation , rising prices of basic foods because the new biotechnologies that are used to create transgenic foods can be used to make biofuels, then the costs increase grains .