Answer: Some benefits of genetically engineered crops include:
-More nutritious food
-Tastier food
-Disease- and drought-resistant plants that require fewer environmental resources (such as water and fertilizer)
-Less use of pesticides
-Increased supply of food with reduced cost and longer shelf life
-Faster growing plants and animals
-Food with more desirable traits, such as potatoes that produce less of a cancer-causing substance when fried
-Medicinal foods that could be used as vaccines or other medicines
