The Pros And Cons Of GMO

The idea of combining attributes from two different organisms is not a new one. For centuries humans have been selectively breeding plants and animals in order to produce desired traits, but what it comes down to is biotechnology and whether or not GMOs will benefit the world, or wind up dooming us all. Everyone's biggest question is whether or not GMOs may be harmful, and it isn't an easy question to answer because there are so many contradictory claims, and any logical claim has the potential to be correct.

First of all, what exactly is a GMO? Well, it stands for a genetically modified organism. DNA is found in almost every living cell, and scientists have been trying to manipulate DNA since its discovery through genetic recombination, which begins in the laboratory. In her essay, "Plant Genetics, Ecologically Based Farming and the Future of Food," Pamela C. Ronald lists three modern genetic approaches to plant breeding. The first approach mentioned is genetic engineering, which is when an individual gene from one species is inserted into the DNA of another species in order to produce a desired trait, and the second approach is marker-assisted breeding, a gene is crossbred with a non-modified

GM crops actually even help farmers, the economy, and the environment. However, subjects regarding GMOs have a vast array of subtopics, opinions, and misinformation which makes it easy for someone to come to an uneducated opinion. Here is what we do know and what we cannot argue, you see, biotechnology is not in its infancy anymore and it will in fact save the world. The fact is that people are more afraid of the science behine GMOs than the GMOs themselves. Whoever said "we fear what we do not understand," forgot that we have science to help us understand. Don't be afraid of