Should GMO Be Banned Essay

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Thirdly, biodiversity is the material basis of human survival, agricultural biodiversity provides not only basic food and industrial raw materials as human beings, but also to maintain the ecosystem also plays an important role. Genetically modified crops undermine the diversity of agricultural products. As the price of GM foods is cheap, traditional food have no price advantage, fewer and fewer farmers plant traditional agricultural products. Should GMOs be banned? Firstly, how to define GMO foods? Many countries strictly prohibit GM foods, but how to define GM foods, there have been a lot of controversy. For example, whether the use of genetically modified oil processing chips is GM food? Whether genetically modified grain-fed pork is …show more content…

I have to say it is impossible to do that. GM crops have been all over the world, it is difficult to eradicate. GM companies invested heavily, can not give up. A small number of countries have fully accept GM foods, and farmland has been contaminated GM crops can not grow traditional crops. If we cannot ban GMO foods, what should we do? We need to limit GM food. Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods is the first step. “64 countries with over 40% of the world 's countries already label genetically engineered foods, including the entire European Union and partial Asia. American citizens are fighting with GMO labeling now, because GMO companies are worry about that more people will choose the non-GMO food and they don’t want to spend one cent for every label. The USDA has to make an ‘Organic Label” which means that a product is not Genetically Modified.(P. Byrne, D. Pendell, & G. …show more content…

I don’t think so. GMO is very advanced technology, gene technology is the direction of human development. We don’t need to eat GMO, but we can use it. GM cotton is a very good example. We wear cotton, and we use cotton, but we never eat cotton. The risk of GM cotton is very low, so we should develop this technology. We cut many trees every year, and forest areas are reducing every year, if we have GM trees we don’t need to cut rainforest, we will have unlimited woods and paper. California is a water shortage state, but we deplete underground water for grass. If we have GM grass, We do not give turf watering, perhaps we do not need to trim them. According to Meredith Knight, “In the late 1970s scientists used genetic engineering to piece the gene for human insulin production into E. Coli or yeast cells, essentially turning them into tiny insulin factories.(Knight)” I think we will have more GM medicine in

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