Pro
- enhances desirable traits in food (makes them bigger)
- allows food to grow in places they normally could not grow
- Longer shelf life
- Lower risk of crop failure
- can contain vaccines
- Engineered to have more nutrition in foods (vitamins & minerals)
- Increase food supply
- Help underfed nations
- Assists farmers, allows them to skip steps in the production process
- Fewer pesticides are used so it is good for the enviroment
Con
- environmental risks- introducing things that are not natural
- People will have a higher tolerance to antibiotics if the food contains them.
- Severe allergic reactions can occur due to added chemicals
- Organisms in the ecosystem can be severely harmed
- Not long enough or big enough testing that has been done
- Making planets resistant to bacteria can make bacteria stronger and harder to kill
- Cases that animals have died after eating GMO food
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