Feed Foods Persuasive Essay

Professor Richard Lewotin said “An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there is no way of knowing what all the downstream effects will be or how it will affect the environment.” Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are not healthy and they shouldn’t be put in our food. Our nation does not know the full extent of GMOs. GMOs are used in almost all of our food, and for the most part there are no regulations for these GMOs that food companies are using now a days. They have been used for years without telling us the full background and side effects they could have. As a nation we need to take the right step in learning the facts about them and making our food truly healthy. GMOs should be made illegal due to the fact that studies have shown them to be unsafe and harmful to consume.

With research showing that GMOs are bad for human consumption, there hasn’t been any policy restrictions made towards GMO foods. Here specifically it is up to the FDA and the government to pass the bill that would make these restrictions mandatory. Currently, this policy is being ignored and thought to not be necessary when factoring in human health. In other words, these large federal agencies are ignoring the facts and choosing to not make GMO restrictions

GMOs should be banned and prohibited from being in the United States. Due to the GMO products not being labeled, people are consuming something that they thought was something different. People are buying things that they think are natural and fresh when they really could be infiltrated with chemicals and things to make them last longer. If America bans GMOs from being sold in the country, being produced in the country, and if Americans become more educated about the harms of GMOs, America can be a lot safer and not have as much unknown problems. People shouldn’t eat foods that are not natural, that can cause unknown problems. When something is being consumed, they should be allowed to know what they are eating. If thirty-six countries have already banned Genetically Modified Organisms, America should be the thirty-seventh country to do

One of the biggest reasons for their controversy has been in part over the risks that could come if any GMOs proved dangerous to humans or the environment. While this is obviously a concern, we do not need to worry about these dangers withe the amount of testing and analysis that goes into these crops before being released into the public. "Over the last 12 years between 50-100 million euros have been spent by the EU on bio-safety research. GM technology is used widely in the production of foods (e.g. the majority of cheese in the UK and US is made with an enzyme that is the product of GM technology) and medicines (e.g. the production of human growth hormone by GM methods removed the major cause of CJD). GM crops have been grown on many millions of acres since 1966 in North and South America and Asia. There are no proven examples of GM products adding risks. In contrast, there are many examples of the technology reducing risks. GM technology is not safe - nothing is - but it has a very effective record." (http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/articles/biotech-art/in_favor.html) IN fact GMOs are one of the most widely studied areas of science, and no definative scientific research has every proved that they are in any way harmful. "With 2000+ global studies affirming safety, GM foods among most analyzed subjects in science"

The main proponent to use gmos was to increase food production to feed the world's impoverished and to use less pesticides in farming. Gmos have not achieved any of its goals as world hungry still exist and pesticide use continues to be used at the same rate. The heavy use of pesticides is not good for the earth people or other life forms that come into contact with them. They are polluting our water and land and if we continue to use them heavily we will make our land infertile. Just off of these facts I believe the use of gmos should be reduced as we are fighting fire with fire. You can't help feed people of today by poisoning the land and water for the people of tomorrow it is an inefficient and illogical

According to the article “Foreign Policy in Focus” there are twenty-six countries that have banned GMOs for good because of all the negative side effects GMOs have. Even still, there are other countries that allow GMOs but are required to have a label with everything that used to make the product. Additionally, farmers have many positive, but also negative opinions when it comes to the use of GMOs. Looking at it on the positive side they are able to use fewer pesticides on crops but farmers are afraid that sooner or later worms and weeds will adapt. If you look at it in the negative side biotechnology companies have been able to obtain patents with which to restrict the use of GMOs. As a result, the companies that make GMOs now have the power to sue farmers whose fields are contaminated with GMOs even when it is the result of inevitable drift from neighboring fields. GMOs therefore pose a serious threat to farmer sovereignty and to the national food security of any country where they are grown, including the United States. Many farmers are beginning to take different alternatives to this problem. For example, farmers are now abandoning GMO seeds for crops and using non-GMO seeds; not only are they better, but they also bring farmers a higher profit since there is a demand for non-GMO

In more recent years, the use of genetically modified (GM) crops to exploit engineered resistance to the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) has become "… one of the most quickly

But with all the bans GMOs still find a way in other countries due to imports from other countries that don't have no limit on GMOs. Another Factor is that GMO Poses danger to the environment. Perhaps the biggest danger to the environment is “Genetic pollution” Which occurs when an Engineered gene enters another species of crop or wild plant through natural cross pollination. This will alter all the Original genetics of all plants. Thus causing Plants species to go into extinction. And with the extinction of a plant will cause the an imbalance in the food chain eventually will cause other species to go

The conflict of GMOs has changed a little over time but not as dramatically as some of the public believes. The amount of GMO crops has increased substantially, as well as the profit from the crops. But the overall conflict, the views on the issue the measures to stop or change GMOs has gone almost nowhere. (Ballotpedia) The conflict has always been about the same issue and the solutions have always been along the same premise. To stop using GMOs as a food source, or recently to make non-GMO products labeled. The only thing that has changed is the companies that control the GMOs have grown considerably since the controversy has started. (disabled-world) (Food Democracy)

They have genetically modified corn to where it is not affected by round-up, but the weeds around it are affected. Farmers have found the very useful for weed control in their fields. That is just one example of man ways corn or other crops could be modified. There could be some that helps it be more drought tolerant so it can handle the dry weather. In this research paper though they used rats and fed them GMO’s for two years and did all kinds of research and found that it led to a much higher rate of tumors for those that had the GMO’s. (Conclusiveness of toxicity data and double

GMOs have been around for quite some time. Farmers have been cross-breeding and modifying their crops for thousands and thousands of years. GMOs were originally made to create the best crops for farmers to farm and distribute. Elton Robinson, a editor for Delta Farm Press says that Genetically-engineered or GMO crops are safe, reduced in chemical use and contribute to the long-term profitability of farmers all over the world (Robinson). Through these words he conveys that GMOs are vital. A world without genetically engineered crops would be horrible, food costs would soar, yields would go down, input costs would rise and many farmers would have to resort to less-environmentally friendly methods of controlling

Scientist developed GMOs to increase crop yields, make crops more resilient to pesticides as well as increase profits. Most GMO crop were created to be pest resistant, or to survive herbicide use, which will grow more crops, make more money, and feed more people around the globe. The world has been consuming GMOs for over two decades. Still, the question remains “Why are GMOs bad?”The government has yet to commit to answering that simple question. The FDA doesn’t have the power or the means to test or confirm that any of our GMOs are safe or unsafe for human consumption, while eighty percent of the food supply in America contains GMOs, and while many companies voluntarily label their products are GMO free, there are currently no labeling requirements

Although both sides of the argument may have valid points. The priority of the government is to ensure the safety of its civilians and that includes the crops we eat. Which ever side of the argument you support you can not miss the face that GMOs can bring harm to a body, according to the Institute for Responsible Technology , a group of anti-GMO activists "Genetically modified foods have been linked to toxic and allergic reactions, sick, sterile and dead livestock, and damage to virtually every organ studied in lab animals."this is real and this is relevant Now knowing this you can determine your view on GMOs.

If both sides learn to accept the flaws for each argument, it is possible to reach a common consensus on how to handle the GMO situation. For GMO proponents, it is necessary to understand the concerns of those who view GMOs with apprehension. With even the slightest possibility that GMOs cause cancer, the agribusiness industry must take great caution in manufacturing their products. Even though many people are completely convinced that GMOs are necessary and even beneficial to society by aiding in the fight against world hunger, there must be some restraint as to thoroughly this end is pursued by the biotech industry. In contrast, for

Genetically modified food has been in debate for several years. The American government supports genetically modified food, while the European government does not. It has become a power struggle over who is right and who is wrong. I personally feel that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are beneficial to the world and support the use of them.