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Labeling Gmo Products Or Conventional Farming?

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When you go into a grocery store, you have organic and non-organic foods. Usually non-organic is sold due to price, taste, and relevancy to our everyday lives. Non-organic foods are considered GMO products or conventional farming. GMO stands for Genetically Engineered Organisms; it is a genetic engineering where organisms DNA is altered or modified in some way. The DNA is usually tampered with from another organism being a virus, bacterium, animals and plants. The majority of our packaged food contains GMOs. Labeling GMO products is not required in the US, so those who don’t know about GMOs are consuming them unknowingly. Then NON-GMO products came to action and started to get labeled, which can usually be found in the organic isle. …show more content…

6). That leaves us trying to find a new possible way to rid of pests. Could we possibly become tolerant as well? Genetically engineered animals are put through livestock treatments to boost production or insert traits that may compensate for the negative impacts of factory farmed livestock (Food & Water Watch pg.7). The main animals that are genetically engineered are cows and chickens. This can cause multiple health risks not only to the animals but children and newborns. Newborns and children are more can be more susceptible to the toxins and nutritional problems (Lallanilla 2016). A newborn gets its nutrients from their mothers through breast-feeding. What she eats and drinks is developed there. For example, I know a woman that can’t breast-feed because her daughter has a dairy allergy. While cows are being treated with rbGH (a hormone) to increase the production of milk they can produce (Lallanilla 2016). The cows can get high rates of udder infection that requires antibiotic treatment. Through this process this has cows produce more IGF-1, which is a “pasteurization-resistant growth hormone” (Food & Water Watch pg.8). This hormone is linked with breast and prostate cancer. Something the US doesn’t consider is the drugs impact on the animals, unlike Canada and the EU that has never approved such action (Food & Water Watch pg. 8). As rats are said to have

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