Thursday, November 5, 2015

GMO's

Hanson, Erb, Myers, Lyles

For GMO’s
  • with the use of them, farmers can better be stewards of the environment and grow more crops with less land
  • they are able to keep and make more food, more people can be fed and food prices go down
  • with the population increasing, they help increase crop production using less resources needed to tend to the population
  • foods that re made with gmos have a better taste texture and nutritional value
  • the gmo crop are made to be more resistant to weeds, pests, and disease, especially in corn
  • less pesticides need to be used, therefore less harmful chemicals are put into the environment
  • they are already in 80% of the food we are eating
  • they allow farmers to be able to make crops on less land which is helpful to the increasing population
Counterargument:
  • how about animals? 
      -diseases decrease in animals when the are genetically modifies
  • no, they don’t solve the food crisis, but gross help

Against GMO’s
  • people are not fine from gmos, people get several diseases and have to resort to eating certain products because gross harmed them
  • laws are being made against gmos, the Kevin Law
  • children are getting sick from them because they harvest allergies and cannot process certain foods
  • farmers themselves are spending more money buying what it takes to create these gmos
  • farming technology is not up to par yet
  • gmos and non gmos do not coexists well
  • farmers have actually increased their use of pesticides
  • there is still a global food crisis even with the gmos
  • gmos are toxic and are infecting the air and soil
  • lower levels of biodiversity
  • gmos are playing God, other countries look down at the US for altering nature
Counterargument:

  • a lot of people don’t know anything about it and there are informational videos and documents that can inform people of this issue
  • they have’t been that successful in genetically modifying foods and animals 
  • it is not much of an improvement, gmo science is failing in many instances
  • farmers are not making enough money because of how much it costs to make modified crops
  • we need more advanced technology that is not so harmful

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