Gmo's Argumentative Essay

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GMO’s, or Genetically Modified Foods, are the result of a laboratory process where genes from the DNA of one organism are harvested and put into the genes of an unrelated plant or animal. In the 1990s, GMO’s were first introduced and are now used in the majority of processed foods in the United States; while in Europe and elsewhere they are banned as ingredients. GMO’s are more harmful than beneficial and are not the answer to the world’s hunger problem. GMO’s, it has been argued, will solve world hunger, but most plans to do this have failed. For example, genetically modified gray mystic rice or “Golden Rice,” is modified to produce a vitamin that helps human immune systems. The companies who engineered it claimed that this miracle food would prevent millions of deaths and blindness in the world. According to isaaa.org, the technology behind Golden Rice was, “A japonica …show more content…

Just look at the plethora of food, that grocery stores and restaurants throw out each week. Therefore, the problem isn’t quantity, it’s distribution. We do not need GMOs to solve world hunger. Moreover, we need to think about why people are growing food and shipping it to the U.S. when they can’t even feed their own people. Third, witless Syngenta, the company who developed Golden Rice, spent $50 million on the Golden Rice ad campaign. This amount, in actuality, was more than was spent on developing the Golden Rice in the first place. They wanted the public to believe that Syngenta was solving the world’s hunger problem when Syngenta knew they were not.
GMO’s are not for solving world hunger they are in making money. GMO’s are not beneficial to solve world hunger, at least not the way things are working right now. Getting people closer to food or getting food closer to people is the answer. Creating genetically modified food purely for profit is not the

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