You may ask yourself what are GMOs? GMOs or genetically modified organisms are plans and animals that have been genetically engineered with DNA bacteria, virus, or other plants and animals. GMOs are in mot plants now a day’s stocked, yes that’s something many people don’t realize or are informed about. The reason I picked this issue was because I feel like people need to be informed about what’s going in there body. “Increasingly, Americans are taking matters into their own hands and choosing to opt out of the GMO experiment” (NON GMO ORJECT, 2014). This issue is important for not just Americans but other foreign countries. At the moment there not harming anyone but we never know that as the years go on something comes up its better the people know about them sooner than later. The aspects of GMOs that will be cover in the research will be the history, benefits, most common GMO foods and stopping GMOs. The biggest question I’m looking to be answered is does GMOs harm human bodies? When did GMOs start? The DNA was discovered in 1935 by Russian scientist Nikolayevich Belozersky. He was a full member of the science academy. In 1980 the first GMOs patent issue.” A 1980 court case between a genetics engineer at General Electric and the U.S. Patent Office is settled by a 5-to-4 Supreme Court ruling, allowing for the first patent on a living organism. The GMO in question is a bacterium with an appetite for crude oil, ready to gobble up spills” (GMOINSIDE, 2013). A couple years later the FDA approved the first GMO. In 1994 the first ever GMO hit the stores. Crazy to think that was only 19 years ago! The product they injected the GMOs were into tomatoes. Before the 2000 came in 1999 was when the GMO food crops dominated. As the years ... ... middle of paper ... ...hboring GM fields. While this contamination is troubling for those of us who wish to avoid GMOs, it can be an economic disaster for organic and family farmers.”(SIGMOID, 2012) GMOs as you can see aren’t very helpful after all. So in fact GMOs could be beneficial and harmful. In my opinion I feel like foods shouldn’t have GMOs at all. I feel like foods should stay the way God created them. Yes they have beneficial things. It can help many people especially the people that are starving in the worlds because right now there are many people. Also has some harmful things that can cause people to die and honestly I wouldn’t want that to happened to anyone just because of food. But if it was all up to me I would change everything back to normal and actually have people eat real food. GMOs have many important parts to our country yet people don’t look these things up.
...t: Greenhaven Press, 2012. At Issue. Rpt. from "GMO-Crop Crisis a Rapidly Growing Concern." Santa Fe New Mexican 21 Oct. 2008. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 29 Mar. 2014.
GMOs has been around for nearly 50 years. It is something that has emerged itself within our lifestyles and become something that appear in our daily lives, whether it’s on the shelf in grocery shops or on your plate right know; GMOs can be found almost anywhere. However, although the production of GMOs have certainly increased over the years, opinions on it has differed. Some people have come to believe it is dangerous for our health, while other people has stated the exact opposite. Something that
Genome contamination is an indisputable byproduct of GMO foods. Seeds of Death provides a chilling example of this as it discusses how fields within a five-hundred mile radius of a GM field are at risk of being contaminated. This genome contamination can spread and drastically decrease biodiversity which is an extremely dangerous risk. For example, the Gros Michel banana was once the staple American banana that disappeared because it was attacked by a strain of panama disease and had little genetic diversity to combat the pathogen (Green). Another proclaimed genetic risk of GMOs is man and animal genome alteration through consumption. However, this has been mostly debunked as prestigious organizations like Harvard have found that “GMO-DNA was completely indistinguishable
Whether we should embrace or reject GMOs is a debate that will very likely always be two sided. Their will always be companies that benefit from GMO production, and even if products are labeled people will undoubtedly still eat them. Whether you are for or against GMOs, it’s our right as consumers to know what we’re buying. People have the right to reject being GMO guinea pigs. Jeffery Smith, executive director from The Institute for Responsible Technology and author of Seeds of Deception said, “We think the single most common result of genetic engineering is surprise side effects. Therefore we say it’s not responsible to feed the products of this infant science to the entire population or release them into the environment where they can never be recalled. Someday, we may be able to safely and predictably manipulate the DNA but it’s not today.”
The benefits of GMOs do not outweigh the risks that they impose. Some people may say that GMOs save farmers money on crops however; the cost of GMO seeds has tripled since we started using them in the 90s. This defeats one of the main purposes of GMOs. The only people who are benefiting from GMOs are the companies who are ma...
Now before getting any further into what is happening to crops, there needs to be some clarification on how GMOs are put into food and crops. Scientists use a method using what they call, a “gene gun.” How it works is a piece of gold (1 micron in diameter) is coated with GM (genetically modified) molecules. It is then loaded into a blank .18mm gun and is “shot” into the plant. This process can take thousands of tries but is how most of GM foods were created. Once the GM molecules enter the plant correctly, without killing any cells or tissue, it is then permanently altered.
...ate, this was deemed by the European Union to be “dangerous to the environment.” It produces super weeds that require higher toxic chemicals, deplete soil quality, and affect wildlife along with non-pest population. Even though these studies were made of glyphosate, bio tech companies were still claiming that their product was “biodegradable”, “safe with low toxicity”, and stating that “it leave the soil clean after use.” These were clear and false claims that were immediately called out by the French Union. Another important environmental risk is the fact that since these GMO crops have foreign DNA in them, it is unknown exactly how they will react in the environment around them or how they will affect the current population of species. It is evident that these crops are uncontrollable and are a mutation that will have some sort of effect on the world around them.
Most people joining the fight against GMOs have no idea what they are and unaware of the many benefits. A genetically modified organism is a plant or animal that has had a gene from another organism inserted into it providing a desired trait. GMOs are created by genetic engineering techniques or transgenics (Bessin 1). The GMO Action Alliance “GMO Free USA” describes the process of genetic engineering as unnatural and experimental r...
Genetically Modified crops, or GM crops, refer to plants used in agriculture whose DNA has been purposely altered in order to create a better, more efficient outcome. There are many different GM crops being used today, most commonly plants with built in pesticide or chemical resistance, such as BT corn and roundup ready soy. Though you may not know it, most of what you eat has some form of a genetically modified organism in it. The Food and drug administration, also known as the FDA, has stated that companies in the US are not required to inform the consumer on whether or not a food contains any form of a GMO, or a Genetically Modified Organism. This means that you would not necessarily be informed on whether or not the foods you are buying and eating are GM foods. Of course GM foods have to meet the same requirements as any conventional food would, but just because there is no immediate harm to humans, does not mean that there are no consequences at all. This also could suggest that since it is difficult to predict and prove long term effects of using GM crops, companies are just selling these abnormal crops to farmers and assuming that only good things will result. GM Crops may be created with the intention of helping, but there are many ramifications that are continuing to be ignored. These would include negative effects to human life, unintended harm to animals and the environment, and the fact that we are already losing control of the modified plants that we have created.
Immune disorders, aging faster, infertility and much much more! That is what you are paying for when you purchase GMO foods. GMO stands for genetically modified organisms. GMO products are products that have undergone modifications that cannot happen in nature. GMOs are advertised as a better, more enhanced version. Scientists have altered the genes of GMO products so that it can grow in different environments, in severe weather conditions, and to generate more food. The truth of the matter is that because of these modifications, GMO foods propose major problems for our health, our environment, and our well-being. The manufactures of these foods will tell you that they are no different then food that has not been genetically modified, but if that is the case why modify foods at all? These manufactures will try to tell you that the food is safe, even better for you. I am going to tell you the truth. I am going to tell you the real reasons why genetically modified organisms are bad for our country.
While many argue that Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's) are beneficial, it has been proven otherwise. The term GMO is an organism where it's genetic material has been modified through genetic engineering or gene splicing. (NON-GMO PROJECT, 2014) GMO ranges from plants, insects, mammals all the way to micro organisms and bacteria. (EFSA, 2014) GMO's can reduce the need for herbicides and pesticides as well as alter components of food such as nutrients, However, even though GMO's has its benefits such as its resistance to pests and herbicides (Whitman, 2000) the disadvantages outweighs the benefits by far. Genetically Modified Organism are a danger to the human health because GMOs harm the environment and pose a national health risk in addition to economic concerns.
Scientists have been changing genomes of plants and animals by integrating new genes from a different species through genetic engineering, creating a genetically modified organism (GMO). Consumers in America have been eating GMOs since 1996, when they went on the market. There are benefits to genetically modifying crop plants, as it improves the crop quality and increases yield, affecting the economy and developing countries. But there are also negative effects from GMOs. Consumption of GMOs has various health effects on both body systems of animals and humans. GMOs also affect the environment, ecosystems and other animal species. The cons outweigh the pros in the case of GMOs.
In this day and age Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) have become a topic of large interest in the media. GMOs are defined as an organism whose genetic structure has been altered by incorporating a gene that will express a desirable trait (Dresbach et. al 2013). Often times these traits that are selected are either beneficial to the consumer or producer. Currently, GMOs are being created at a higher rate than ever before and are being used in the foods that we eat. This has created a large amount of debate on local, national, and international levels about the safety of genetically modified foods to human health. There are many angles that have been taken from different groups about this issue. Some believe it is harmful to our health with one source stating that, “mice eating GMO corn had fewer and smaller babies (Jagelio 2013).” Without testing on humans how are we to know these harmful effects aren’t impacting our health and reproduction. Other groups see GMOs as being both beneficial and having no impact on human health. These individuals site that , “Since GMOs were introduced into the food supply almost 20 years ago, there has not been one documented case of any health problem in humans, not even so much as a sniffle, linked to GMOs (Entine 2013).” They have also found GMOs to be beneficial to human health. Dresbach et. al(2013) found, “The biotechnology of gene splicing allows for the opportunity of creating plants that will produce food that is more nutrient dense.” With so many different views that all cite different information about GMO’s impact on human well-being, the question remains how GMOs affect human health?
An English doctor, named Arpad Pusztai, did a study on rats being fed genetically modified foods. His study found out that rats that ate genetically modified potatoes had pre-cancerous cells, smaller brains, smaller livers, smaller testicles, and damaged immune systems. After finding this out, he then changed the eating habits of the rats by interchanging between feeding them organic potatoes and genetically modified potatoes for two weeks at a time. He concluded that whenever the rats ate the organic potatoes, their symptoms disappeared, but when the rats ate the GMO potatoes again, the symptoms reappeared. Pusztai study isn’t the only that proves that GMOs are harmful. Other studies have also shown that GMOs are linked to reproductive problems, immune system problems, accelerated aging, gastrointestinal distress, and dysfunctional regulation. This proves that GMOs have a serious effect on our
If crops were affected by droughts, disease and insects, having destroyed many acres across America’s Midwest region, the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) would not be beneficial in regenerating new crops. Genetically modifying foods (GMOs) “are plants or animals that have been genetically engineered with DNA from bacteria, viruses or other plants and animals that cannot occur in nature or in traditional crossbreeding” (nongmoproject.org). Most research done has concluded no positive benefits in using GMOs. There are serious health risks associated with eating GM foods based on scientific research done around the world. The purpose of GMOs are to increase production of crop yield and reduce pesticide use but research says otherwise. If farmers wanted to continue using GMOs to produce crops, labeling should be mandatory to allow consumers to have a conscious choice whether or not to eat GM food. Through research it has been proven that the use of GMOs to increased production of crops during a time of drought or disease have no benefits, just risks.