GMO - Marissa P.
CONCERNS 👎
BENEFITS 👍
Saves Money
Feed the Starving
Quicker Production
Effecting Animals
CLAIM: One benefit about GMOs is that foods could be more healthy or nutritious.
AquaBounty Salmon is one of the most healthiest foods in the world and carries more Omega 3.
CITATION: “AquaBounty Technologies’ salmon was engineered to grow twice as fast as normal salmon, with less feed”(https://newsela.com/read/overview-gmos-engineered-food/id/20955#).
GM Corn contains natural pesticides and farmers could save money that they would use to buy pesticides.
Around 500,000 children go blind from vitamin A deficiency.
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If they produce fast enough, ending world hunger is a possibility.
CITATION: “Genetically engineering food could help feed the 800 million undernourished people in the world” (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kPY926izxFUl6IBRmIdxLvno_0rKwvMli6abnycUnNE/edit).
CLAIM: One concern about GMOs is the lack of labeling for foods that contain GMOs.
Allergies
Back then people would use radiation to mutate crops, which could cause negative effects to the body.
EVIDENCE: “For example, engineers are able to create rice that has vitamin A and iron. The modified rice is more nutritious” (https://docs.google.com/document/d/15_xxQ19NvFfhMk42hIAGIXW5N0Gj7j_m72hwi5ITB6s/edit).
COUNTERCLAIM - While this is a good claim, the article, "Golden Rice Debate," states that "there are multiple resources for malnutrition planned and currently in place, that are cheaper and do not require GMOs, that should make golden rice unnecessary. For example, UNICEF employs a vitamin A supplementation programs that improves a child’s survival rate by 12-24% with the price of only a few cents."
EVIDENCE: “Without labels on foods that are genetically modified, people are unable to make the eating choices they wish to make. There is no knowledge about whether the foods are GMO or not” (http://visionlaunch.com/genetically-modified-food-pros-and-cons-list/#).
COUNTERCLAIM - Your evidance is true, but people have been modifying our food since the dawn of farming, so how can we label ALL foods?
The GMO foods might cause some allergies with no labeling.
CITATION:“BT toxin, designed to kill pests that eat crops, caused allergies and other responses” (https://classes.soe.ucsc.edu/cmpe080e/Spring05/projects/gmo/negative.htm).
Obesity
COUNTERARGUMENT: Though they might not be able to label ALL foods, they could be able to label MOST foods so people have some knowledge about them.
COUNTERARGUMENT: The GMO food would help people have a wider variety of healthy food and food that contain acceptable supplements of vitamin A.
Some or most of the most commonly GMO foods, that are banned in other countries, is what it most likely what is causing obesity.
CITATION: Different slides on https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17lstOIKMmvLWNrqMbQpJuLP9a-gJP_bUzEUR2kuaUhA/edit#slide=id.p7
When animals are genetically modified to, for example, glow in the dark, then the animal probably not feel comfortable when they glow while they're trying to sleep.
CITATION: "For example, cats injected with the glow-in- the-dark gene are more resistant to feline HIV,
which affects 500 million cats around the world" (10 Genetically Modified Animals You Can Buy).