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GMOs Priscilla Sandford (BENEFITS :smiley: (More nutritious (Golden rice…
GMOs Priscilla Sandford
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BENEFITS :smiley:
More nutritious
Golden rice is now more nutritious with more vitamin A and saves children with malnutrition,
CITATION:“... main goals in producing GMOs is to create foods that are packed with more nutrients than before. ...for example, scientists developed a crop ...that was created specifically to help fight vitamin A deficiencies” (Pros & Cons of GMOs).
STATISTIC: "Approximately 3.1 million children die from undernutrition each year" (Hunger Education).
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CLAIM: One strong benefit of GMOs is the drought resistance which helps crops not be destroyed by lack of water.
EVIDENCE: They help the 3.1 million children who are dying each year from malnutrition because a lot of the crops are destroyed by the drought and are too expensive.
COUNTERCLAIM (Citlaly C.): What if the areas that the GMOs foods are planted in still take up water that is not being used so the water is just stored in the soil of GMO foods. Which means that the water is still not being used to the more natural foods that need more water.
COUNTERARGUMENT: Yes that may be true but in rare cases. A way to solve this is to use only GMO crops in the states that want it and the GMOs may store unneeded water but it depends on how much you water it and I don't think that access water isn't a big deal.
CLAIM: GMOs may negatively effect children with a rare allergy to that food that the GMO has the gene of it in.
EVIDENCE: For example, if a child ate a GMO that had a banana gene in it and they had a rare banana allergy, they could have a severe or even fatal allergic reaction to that banana.
COUNTERCLAIM(Citlaly C.)-What if they looked at the ingredient section and check if there is anything they are allergic to.
COUNTERARGUMENT: So many states don't label in the U.S. and even if they did in some places they don't label the GMOs genes they put in.
