Pros And Disadvantages Of GMO

“Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man,” George Washington. Agriculture has been around for 12,000, this changed the lifestyle of people from hunting and gathering to permanent settlements with a steady food source (“Development of Agriculture”). From this, civilizations and cities grew, food could now be grown to meet the demands of the ever growing global populations. Since the development of agriculture advancement has been made to feed the population. One of the many modern advancements has been genetically modified organisms. Genetically Modified Organism, is the results of a laboratory process, where genes from the DNA of one of the species are extracted, and artificially forced into the genes of an unrelated plant or animal. Some of the unanswered questions about GMO’s have been what they are, companies that are involved,

A GMO is a genetically modified organism that goes through the process of genetic engineering. This is when genes of one organism are extracted, altered, and then artificially placed into another organism to then grow. We typically see GMOs in the food we consume every day. These foods include fruits and vegetables, however the most common organisms that are genetically engineered include, corn, soy, and cotton. It is ultimately the unnatural cross breeding of plants, animals, bacteria, and virus genes (Non-GMO Project). But now why is there a debate for placing a label to notify consumers of GMOs in their foods? Do we know the potential harm that GMOs can cause? We have the right to know what we are putting into our bodies and what is found in our everyday foods.

With genetically modified foods, there is a chance that people may have allergic reactions to foods that usually would not have triggered an allergic reaction. For example, DNA inserted into an apple from a peanut could add the same allergenic peanut proteins into the apple (Smith). This similar concept could be applied to other genetically modified foods, such as soy. In an article written by Jeffrey Smith, he discusses how levels of one known soy

For thousands of years, humans have been genetically enhancing other organisms through the process of selective breeding. Polls indicate alarm over the contamination of everyday foods. Americans are especially concerned about Genetically Modified Organisms. So, are they good or not? According to NewsELA, PRO/CON: Is it time to label GMO foods? GMO foods? Andrew Pollackmay's "Genetically Engineered Crops are Safe, Analysis Finds", and Janet Renee's "Benefits you get from a GMO" they talk about the merits and the demerits of GMO crops. GMOs are plant or animal products that have been reengineered in a lab. Scientists use the DNA of bacteria,

Many will argue that Genetically Modified Organisms(GMOs) are not safe for human consumption, however they are almost inevitable for our everyday food consumption. Some argue that the recent increase in gluten intolerance is caused by GMO foods (Argument against). Other state that the risk to humans by GMO’s is relatively small (The GMO”). The bottom line is what people put into their bodies is a personal choice and a person should be able to easily tell if a product has been genetically modified or not.

There are concerns with introducing a new gene into food could cause allergic reactions to some people (Chaury, 2004). Genetically engineered Soya bean containing Brazilian nut protein was a potential allergy to humans and was withdrawn from its production (pioneerio, 2015).Environmental Protection agencies note that most pesticides have been linked to nervous system disturbances, visual and skin irritations, also endocrine problems REFERENCE. Furthermore scientist believe , besides from allergic reactions , GM foods do not pose any other threat to human health , however there’s no long term studies conducted to prove this

Freeman states, one of the major concerns that the opposing scientist and researchers have are "GM foods are unsafe to eat because they are altered from their original state." GM supporters argue that GM foods are safe because few genes are altered. Stating "such precision makes it much less likely to produce unexpected results"(Freeman, 633). According to Bernstein, "health effects of primary concern to safety assessors are production of new allergens, increased toxicity, decreased nutrition, and antibiotic resistance" (Bernstein et al., 2003). Research has shown that even with such subtle changes to the DNA of any living organism it could potentially have hazardous effects. According to research performed by Dr. Judy Carman and Dr. Natalie Parletta," GM plants may unexpectedly produce new, toxic substances because "GM inserts are placed randomly into the plant 's DNA. Some inserts may influence the expression of the plant 's genes in unintended or unpredictable ways." Some of the effects could vary from, the plant reducing its productivity to possibly producing a wild gene from an ancestor. Another negative effect is that "new DNA or proteins from GM foods could be taken up by the bacteria in our gut or tissues in the body resulting in illnesses." Advocates for GM foods would argue that these proteins would be processed therefore never effecting our bodies

Our project is about Gmos and how a farmer took a chance to feed the world. One reason we chose this topic was we found it interesting because the roots of Gmos started with a farm boy from Iowa named Norman Borlaug. We both thought it was amazing that something so big came from Iowa. Another reason we picked this topic was both of our members is related partly to Norman Borlaug. We wanted to know about our distant relative and how he changed the world

It has been well over 30 years since our ability to produce genetically engineered plants and debate rages on over the “safety” of consuming these organisms. Often times the media bends data collected by the scientific community to power political and anti GE crop campaigns entirely disregarding the consensus of the scientific community. In the heat of this discussion the data collected speaks for itself however a multitude of sociopolitical factors causes the debate to worsen further into stalemate. I believe that GMO crops are safe, but also have an incredible amount of benefits that are impossible to deny without straight out disregarding the data collected over several decades. According to the United Nations about 21,000 people a day (roughly

When determining the safety of a product, it is critical to look at direct and indirect effects. In the case of GMOs, proponents often fail to do this, creating misleading data that fails to show many of their dangers. The

A genetically modified organism is a plant, animal, or any other organism whose genetic composition has been modified by recombining extracted genes from the DNA of one species and placed into the genes of an unrelated organism. According to many scientists there is little research and investigations done to support the idea that GMO’s are safe to eat but do pose a threat to the crops. Genetically engineered foods are still new and are advancing, this may show different results in health effects of GMO’s in the future. With more research into the topic of GMO’s we will be able to see the different effects that GMO’s have and better understand if we should be consuming them or not.

Genetically modified Organisms (GMOs) are the result of artificial genetic modification of organisms. Typically plants and livestock are modified to resist disease, herbicides, and pests (Tsatsakis, et al). Furthermore, the biotech industry is growing in sales as well. In 2012, biotechnology generated about 323.8 billion US dollars (Tsatsakis, et al). While scientists search for the safest possible methods of genetic modification, many people disagree with the use of GMOs, and some actively try to shut down Biotechnology centers for their practices. Likewise, it is argued whether GMOs are safe enough to consume in our food. While many experiments and studies suggest that GMOs have some risk, no matter the method, many actually ignore the facts given that show us GMOs are more beneficial than harmful to our society.

Earlier today (November 19th) the FDA approved the first ever GMO animal for human consumption, the AquAdvantage Salmon. This particular "animal drug" (as the FDA is terrifyingly classifying it) has had its genetics manipulated to have it grew faster.

There are many opinions on GMOs, many of which are bad. But, most opinions cannot be supported because of the limited information we have on GMOs. Still, I have collected the information that we do have and concluded that GMOs are good and should be used more often. This is because GMOs reduce pesticide use, GMOs can provide vaccines, proteins, and other pharmaceutical goods, and lastly, GMOs can provide food to prevent allergies. Although there is a big debate on whether GMOs are good or bad for you, with the limited information we have, I have chosen the most valuable reasons to support that GMOs are good.

Genetically Modified Foods have been a great source of debate in the past couple of years. The definition for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) will be used for Genetically Modified Foods (GMFs). Typically GMOs represent a wider group of genetically modified organisms including microorganisms and animals, not just foods, but because of their similarity between GMOs and GMFs the definition will be used. Genetically modified organisms can be defined as “organisms whose genetic material has been altered by means of genetic engineering” (Dictionary). The “organism” in GMFs would be a crop. Therefore GMFs are produced by means of genetic engineering. Essentially, GMFs are produced by transfer technology that represents a “cut and paste” operation.