Advantages of the GMOs
By: Kovida Koneru
This website is all about the positive effects of GMOs.
What is the GMOs?
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.
Positive Effect of GMO
GM foods will promise many health benefits:
- They have more nutrients that have been added.
- They are easier and safer to eat because all of the pesticides have been taken out.
- The food that has been added to the vegetables has a higher quantity of vitamins and minerals.
Positive Effect of GMO
GM technology will help the environment:
- Pesticides stoop harming the plants and they will be removed from the soil.
- If the crop is growing and producing well, the farmers will stop using many chemicals.
Positive Effect of GMO
Scientists say that genetically modifying plants is completely natural:
- Based on evolution, plants genetically modify themselves all of the time.
- Farmers modify plants for millennia, the basis of agriculture.
- GM makes the products produce faster instead of taking many years for the process to complete.
Postive Effect of GMO
GM seeds maintain that GM crops hold the greatest hope for adequately feeding our rapidly expanding world population:
- Innovation is the only way to meet the world's needs for food and medicines in a rapidly shrinking and increasingly scarred natural environment.
- GM crops that will offer the best chance to address the challenge of feeding the six billion people or more.
Positive Effect of GMO
GM reduces what?
- It reduces the amount of agriculture waste.
- It reduces the amount of chemical pesticides.
- It reduces the amount of herbicides.
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