Gmos Are Not Safe To Eat

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.

Others argue, such as Dr. Patricia Zambryski, a professor in plant and microbial biology, that ''Gmos are not perfect, but they're not harmful to use. Everything must be balanced.'' They also raise up the points that GMOs saved 'x'. Say for instance, the papaya 'vaccine'. Yes, GMOs do have positive factors, and upbrings. Despite this, we shouldn't just overlook and overrule the negative effects then proceed to sweep them underneath the rug. Not to mention, if they aren't perfect, then how can we guarantee safety? There are no guarantees that a GMO will not cause allergies. As the source from IRT states, “No tests can guarantee that a GMO will not cause allergies. Although the World Health Organization recommends a screen protocol, {19}, the GM soy, corn, and papaya in our food supply fail those tests-because their GM proteins have properties of known

As said before, GMOs are genetically modified organisms, and can be dangerous, so experts say. They say that the GMO process causes diseases such as cancer or diabetes, and some also say that GM foods can cause allergic reactions. They are saying this because, as they have discovered, some companies have mixed protein from nuts and inserted into beans, which can be harmful

Eating foods with GMOs should be avoided because have inadvertent ramifications. As the article “Food at the Frontline” states “GMOs actually increase the toxification of our food system, even while claiming to be an alternative to chemicals… there are herbicide-resistant crops and BT-toxin crops.”.This shows by eating foods with GMOs, the

I’m not the first person to say this, and I’m sure I won’t be the last. We don’t know if a few years down the road, something could go wrong with the GMOs. There’s a possibility for them to mutate, or for your bodies to develop new bacteria’s that could depend on the GMOs. And once removed from our body, there could be some major issues. This is all hypothetical of course, and maybe not realistic. It’s just my mind throwing random ideas and “What If” situations. But if you think about it, it could happen. I’m sure that I’m not the only one thinking these things, and I know I’m not the only one concerned about my health. If people want to consume GMOs, then that’s their business. But we all have the right to know what’s going into our bodies.

While these are valid concerns, they are entirely wrong. According to the World Health Organization in 2005, “GM foods currently traded on the international market have passed risk assessments in several countries and are not likely to present risks for human health” (Novella). Many of those who are anti-GMO claim that GMOs are not safe because they do not know enough about them or they have heard far too many conflicting reports. While there are many reports that claim that GMOs are detrimental to the environment, the three agencies that oversee GM crops, the FDA, USDA, and EDA, have ruled that these crops do not pose any real threat. Since the beginning of the GM crop in 1996, there have been 2,497 approvals of the safety of GMOs in the environment and 1,129 of these approvals have been for the food safety of the products (Monsanto). This further disproves the claim that GMOs are unsafe for humans and the environment and reassures that there is no risk involved in either the consumption or the planting of GM

According to Jeffrey Smith, this process can cause the organisms to have unknown effects such as toxins, diseases, and nutritional problems (2006). Along with that, the health risks from consuming products containing GMOs are enough to turn people away. According to the American Academy of Environmental Science, “several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food consumption including infertility, immune dysregulation, accelerated aging, dysregulation of genes associated with cholesterol synthesis, insulin regulation, cell signaling, and protein formation, and changes in the liver, kidney, spleen, and gastrointestinal system”(2009). Finding out that GMOs caused all of these issues to animals, people will start to question the safety of the GM food products. This alone can scare the consumers and discourage them from purchasing products containing GMOs. However, that may no longer be a choice

Some believe that GMOs are harmful to the consumer because they do not like the idea of having chemicals injected into their fruits and vegetables, yet there has been hundreds of test done to show that GMOs are completely safe and are not harmful to humans in anyway. Tests have been conducted and independently funded by The World Health Organization, The FDA and many other huge food science companies. In the past 30 years that GMOs have been in us there has not been one case tying a cancer or any type of illness to GMOs, the unease about GMOs is merely based on theories with no facts to back those theories up.

Genetically modified foods, otherwise known as GM foods, have been the source of enormous controversy for the past several decades. Both sides of the debate for and against GM foods bring empirical evidence to the table in an effort to disqualify the opposition, and it is clear that much is a stake for the companies and people involved. But what does this mean for the average consumer? When the politics are shunted aside, people still want to know if what they’re eating is safe, and good for (or at least neutral to) our environment. In this essay, I will attempt to shed light on these questions with hard facts and separate the political fictions from truth. To do so, I will first explain what

GMOs are potentially dangerous and there is little known about the effects on consumption in humans. However, there have been some significant studies on animals and the effects of GMOs. The results show a variety of conditions ranging from stomach inflammation, to tumors, or even death. There are no laws regarding labeling what food products have GMO ingredients in them, even though there have been numerous attempts to have this become required by the FDA. The only way of knowing if your food is genetically modified is by looking at the label and searching for “Non-GMO”.

GMOs are not widely popular as they are not natural, their name itself implies it, so the rise of organic trends has risen to pacify the people afraid of consuming GMOs. In my honest opinion, I do not have any issue consuming foods with GMOs as there isn’t any clear evidence directly linking GMOs to diseases in humans. (Arnarson, 2015) In fact, believe they have been highly helpful in many aspects, they are highly resistant to bugs, this also reduces the need to use pesticide in crops, and other natural situations that would otherwise destroy a crop, this prevents the loss of food and provides a constant yield of products. More constant crops make for cheaper food, since there is less loss of food, the needed cost to cover expenses can be distributed among a greater

GMO food can cause an appearance of new diseases. They are unnoticeable,making them a silent killer in the food industry. They also have contributed to the development of many common diseases in the United States, including premature aging, gas problems, organ damage, and more. As well as them being connected with reproductive damage,they also make an appearance of food allergies, and increased infant mortality happen.

They are produced faster, insect resistant, better tasting, more nutritious and environmentally friendly. Potentially, GMO foods have the ability to end starvation and feed millions of people worldwide, who currently go hungry. At the same time GMO foods can combine many vitamins and minerals into a single food source. This is an inexpensive, easy, efficient and effective way to end starvation and malnutrition. However, I argue that GMO foods are a serious risk to our health! GMO foods are made by transferring the genes of one organism into another organism. Majority of these genes are obtained from bacterium, an organism that normally makes you sick, which is why so many people are against GMO. We don’t know exactly what we are eating, where it comes from, if it causes allergies and what reactions take place between the two totally opposite genes. We, as consumers, have no idea whether the food that we eat is safe or not. I strongly believe that not enough testing has been done to clear GMO foods as 100 %

Genetically Modified Organisms have been plaguing the modern world for sometime now, causing people of all ages suffer and develop allergies to some of their favorite foods. All around the globe farmers have been using a new method of growing crops where they can grow more for less, but at what cost to the health of the customers. At first it wasn’t a well known problem but after years of deaths and illnesses research has shown that this has been caused by the drugs used to mass produce the food products us consumers place in our body. The list is endless covering the pros and cons of GMO’s, but the main few are the abundance of crops now produced throughout america and the crops are less susceptible to harm from bugs, harsh weather, and herbicide, and on the negative side GMO’s are affecting our health, long term and short term, harm the crops made at local farms surrounding GMO’s since the pollen and seed is carried through the air, and even possibly death.

When it comes to the topic of weather genetic modifications are safe or unsafe for animals, the environment and for human consumption, some of us will readily agree that they are in fact very dangerous for everyone. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of how exactly they affect everyone. Whereas some are convinced that GMOs are not safe for any one, others maintain that they are not a hazard to anyone. I agree that GMOs are not safe because while doing my research I found concrete evidence that proves that they are unsafe for consumption. All production of GMOs should be discontinued immediately since they are a danger for our environment and for ourselves.