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GMOs
Shayna Dearman-So (CONCERNS ⚠ (GMOs can cause allergies (Most of us…
GMOs
Shayna Dearman-So
CONCERNS ⚠
GMOs can cause allergies
Most of us know what we can and can't eat. Now days we don't 100% know everything about the foods we are eating. With GMOs we now don't know what is in our food for sure. If your allergic to peanuts and you are eating an apple you don't know if your eating a peanut or not. This is super bad because now people with fatal allergens don't know whether foods that they are eating contain their allergen
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Statistics of this are not available but since labeling is not forced I would assume that many people would have allergic reaction because they do not know what they are eating.
They do not label GMOs
How come you never see labels for GMO's you may ask. Well that is because they don't label them. Major bio food companies such as Monsanto choose to not label their food because they are not forced to. So now we do not know whether we are eating GMO food or not.
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Ever since GMOs entered the market 20 years ago, we’ve been kept in the dark about whether foods we feed our families contain GMOs. While our reasons for wanting to know what’s in our food may vary, what unifies us is the belief that it’s our right..." (Right to Know).
Possible Health Concerns
Before GMOs were allowed on the market they were tested on rats. During the testings the rats were found to have organ failure. If rats organs were failing from food that we eat everyday this greatly concerns me
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CLAIM:
GMOs positively affect us by giving us more nutritional value in our food, helps fight world hunger, and lessens the use of pesticides on our crops.
EVIDENCE:
"...food developed through biotechnology are digested in the same manner as other foods and therefore provide the same nutrition, or in some cases more nutrition (if the goal of the biotechnology was to enhance nutrient content)" (GMO Answers).
COUNTERCLAIM(PENELOPE DE SOTO) A study actually shows that GMO foods are not that helpful to solving hunger, yes they will help but it wont make that much of a difference "It’s been found that eighty percent of the foods grown globally (corn and soybeans) are used for biofuels and livestock feed, not to feed people. As the Environmental Working Group puts it, “Most of the investment in GE crops ends up feeding cows and cars, not people"' (Here’s Why GMOs Won’t Solve Global Hunger)
CLAIM:
GMOs may be harmful to us humans because when they tested the new technology on rats the rodents were found to have tumors and organ failure. This shows that GMOs are unsafe for human consumption.
EVIDENCE:
"The study found that rats fed for two years with Monsanto’s glyphosate-resistant NK603 maize (corn) developed many more tumors and died earlier than controls" (Study Linking Genetically Modified Corn to Rat Tumors Is Retracted).
COUNTERCLAIM: (PENELOPE DE SOTO) I agree with your claim, but someone arguing against this claim might ask If NK603 is the only GMO that harms rats because if it is then why can't they just reduce that GMO and keep going producing others.