GMO's
Genetically Modified Organisms- A Great Idea
Increases Food Productivity
- Innovation is the only way to meet the world's burgeoning needs for food and medicine
- In as few as 50 years, population could double
- GM crops will boost production, and grow crops where they couldn't be grown before (see Benifits the Farmers)
Health Benifits
- Longer shelf life
- Better for us with less calories, fat and more nutritional content
- Safer to eat- lower fungal toxins and use fewer pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers
- Malnutrition will go away as new vitamins and minerals will be placed in food people already eat
- Vaccines could be put into foods, making it easier to ship, store and administer them.
Benifits the Farmers
- Reduces Crop Loss with insect resistance, anti-freeze, disease resistance
- Saves money by reducing weed killers and other pesticides
- Reduces land degradation and soil erosion by 70%
- Plants could be drought or salt tolerant, allowing farming in new areas
- Increases harvest yields by 5-8%
- Triple crop yields without additional farmland
- Could withstand early spring and late fall, so that eventually farmers could plant two crops each year
Natural
- Plants and animals modify all the time
- Current foods have been modified and are now much better
- More precise for traditional plant breeding
- Also makes it much faster
Tested Thoroughly
- Meet federal safety standards
- Test protein, toxicity, and allergy - inducing potential
- 3 Government programs regulate- EPA, FDA and Department of Agriculture