Genetically Modified Organism
Proponents
Scientific Advancements
GMO companies
Understanding of DNA has evolved so far
make foreign DNA work in a foreign organism
ability to transplant DNA into a new organism
ability to isolate specific traits
abillity to give food more desirable traits
more nutritious
pest-resistant
immune to nature
drought or flood resistant
profits
seeds for GMO
pesticides
Opponents
harm to the consumer
harm to the environment
increase the world food supply
negative effects on health
modified organisms are replacing natural species
eco systems can't handle the new species
modified salmon that grow faster, would eat more than the ecosystem can support
foreign DNA invading food
pesticides and resistance to pesticides
Bill Nye: success of modern farming has allowed us to feed a much larger group of people than 50 years ago
media
Twitter and Tumblr are a few of the social media platforms where people can easily express their opinions and both have been very popular for people to post about their dislike of GMOs with hashtages like #gmofree.
Media
Public speech from the scientists have been most popular in the form of articles and journals. For example, the journal written by P. Ronald.
Media
The big companies have not focused on advertising for GMO, rather their effort has been concentrated in lobbying in D.C. to work on things like the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act.