Genetically Modified Foods
Is genetically modified food safe for consumption by humans?
Background information
- Genetically modified food is when genes from 2 or more organisms are put together
- This does not happen in the wild only in special labs
- Food is usually bigger and lasts longer
- To usually help with a shortage of one or more things
Additional Background info.
- Vegetables and fruits are the most common genetically modified organisms
- Tomatoes and watermelon are the main foods that are GM
- In the early 2000s people started GM salmon
Genetically Modified Tomatoes
Genetically Modified Watermelon
Pros
- FDA says that the food from GM salmon is safe for consumer consumption
- G.M. foods have more shelf life
- Are bigger or have some sort of benefit
- Cost less money sometimes
Cons
- Panama only makes 100,000 pounds of fish when the normal amount caught is 200,000 pounds of natural salmon
- I think that the chemicals could still harm you possibly
- GM salmon could be hostile to wild fish maybe a wrong egg get in wild and cause chaos
- GM salmon could possibly kill off natural salmon in wild and none left to eat so we would all have to eat GM salmon
- Many retailers are refusing to sell GM salmon they don't think it is healthy
- Foods are never natural no one can farm the traditional way
- GM salmon is grown in one of two facilities that aren't even in the United States of America they're in Canada and Panama so much for farmed in the USA
Graph showing how much farmland is dedicated to GMO over the last 13 years
Dates in Years
Final Thoughts
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