Are GMOS good for us? What anthropologists can contribute to the debate.
Abstract
About 70% of the food products on American supermarkets contain GMO (Genetic Modified Organisms). This introductionis spreading to the rest of the world changing the agricultural and animal production tecnics. Anthropology can
contribute to this matter by analizing the ideology and actions of the cientific knowledge. This work shows thesocial and politic dimensions of the introduction of this kind of alimentar production.
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