Should we have qualms against transgenic rice?

Genetic engineering has joined the search for "super rice" in recent years. It is intended to increase the production of this food with plants that are more resistant to pests, that need less pesticides, and better withstand drought, cold or salinity.

Several countries are preparing new varieties of transgenic rice, introducing foreign genes into plants; For example, China, which wants to put its first rice on the market in 2007, is investigating four varieties, two of them resistant to insects. Researchers are doing well on both productivity and farmers' health. However, there are many detractors , such as Greenpeace , who claim that GMOs represent a threat to health and the environment and their long-term effects are unknown. Although it has been authorized in the US, the market rejects it . GM rice is also produced for other purposes, such as an American company, which has just introduced human genes into this cereal for the first time. With it, they want to obtain proteins to eradicate childhood diarrhea, which causes two million deaths a year.