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GMO-Wang, Ben (Benefits (GMOs can produce a lot more food to address world…
GMO-Wang, Ben
Benefits
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Faster Growth
“AquAdvantage Salmon has been genetically engineered to reach a growth marker important to the aquaculture industry more rapidly than its non-GE farm-raised Atlantic salmon counterpart” (AquAdvantage Salmon Fact Sheet)
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Concerns
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Risk of Allergy
By combining genes from different foods you might take a gene that someone has a allergy and put it in something they like to eat they might have an allergic reaction.
“(. . .)the Brazil nut GMO soybean has never been approved for the market, and this case helped establish the policy that any protein that has been shown or even suspected to cause an allergic reaction should never be introduced into a GMO crops” (Allergies and GMOs).
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CLAIM: One benefit of GMOs is the act of curing world hunger by 2030 due to its large amounts of effectiveness in places with not enough food.
Example: One example is the GMO of aqua bounty Salmon because the salmon is grown to be bigger and grown faster because of the GMO inside.
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Claim: GMOs are being used so much that the bugs and pests are developing a resistance and then more pesticides have to be used on the pests and bugs which means that the GMOs are not doing their job.
Evidence: In GMO corn the GMO is made to repel a root worm but since the corn is so widely that the root worm is resisting the GMO.