Crops,Animals,and Bacteria have been taken to the lab to alter a certain desirable trait.
The Good:
- We are able to create more food,faster and produce larger quantities (commercial producing)
- Some plants can become resistent to certain pests and diseases
The Bad:
- Ethically, Its wrong
- In Europe, its required to be labeled on the packaging, whereas US and Canada its not. (shocker
- Cross pollination with other organisms
The Ugly:
- Scientific Findings show that gmos can potentially create new dangerous diseases
- Fatal allergic reactions can take place
- Genetic deformities
- Nutritional imbalances
So think twice about GMO's they aren't all they are cracked up to be......
To add to the "ugly" list, because the GMOs have not been around long enough, there are no studies on the long term effects on our bodies. To me, that's the scariest because we have no idea what the lasting effects are.
ReplyDeleteI'm hesitant to write off all GMOs as bad without further investigation. The majority of GMOs that I am familiar with are very helpful to a large number of people. One of these, golden rice is a genetically modified variety of rice that expresses vitamin A. The majority of our vitamin A comes from grains we eat but rice is notoriously low in vitamin A. People in countries that rely on rice as a staple crop, particularly Asian countries, have greatly benefited from this GMO and it has estimated 1-2 million deaths have been prevented and half a million cases of blindness have been prevented as well. However, I feel there are some GMOs that should be pulled from the market completely without testing just because of their very nature such as plants that have been modified to express different pesticides which obviously is not something that should be put in the food supply.
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