Students from Room 20 at Tauranga Intermediate School share their thoughts on genetic modification.

My opinion on genetic modification differs. With the genetic modification of plants and food I am very supportive of it as I am interested as to how we can keep ourselves healthier with vitamin and nutrient-boosted foods, but there is lots of controversy and lots of people fear GM foods because they think they might get sick.

This fear isn't really based on anything as there has never been a recorded case of someone being poisoned by a GM food. However when it comes to genetically modified babies I'm not so sure because there are the issues of there being trends of what you want your baby to look like which could cause us to all look and be very alike. Also, when genes are changed before birth they change things you inherit from your parents which could make tracing a family via genes very difficult in the future.

J Litolff, TIS.