The Pros And Cons Of Non-GMO Companies

“March 2000: The Taxpayer” in Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, is an interchapter that focuses on how Pritchard (a typical taxpayer) wants to get on the spaceship to Mars. The purpose of this short chapter is to provide foreshadowing to both the atomic war and civilian immigration to Mars. The reason why this chapter was written is that during 1950 (when this book was written), Ray Bradbury wanted to voice his opinion that the construction of atomic bombs will lead to war.

The issue of genetically modified foods, is Farmers can't harvest seeds. Fundamentally, farming is a simple process: plant seeds, grow crops, harvest crops, and gather seeds from the plants for the next season. Sadly, GMO companies like Monsanto take this last step away from farmers and raise expenses even futher by forcing the farmers to continually buy the premium-priced GM eeds every growing season. In fact, as was shiwn in the Bowman v. Monsanto court case, it is illegal in the US for someone growing a Monsanto crop to harvest the seeds and use them later. The Nowman case went all the way to the unanimously found guilty of patent infringement after he purchased and used second generation Monsanto seeds.

A GMO is a genetically modified organism that goes through the process of genetic engineering. This is when genes of one organism are extracted, altered, and then artificially placed into another organism to then grow. We typically see GMOs in the food we consume every day. These foods include fruits and vegetables, however the most common organisms that are genetically engineered include, corn, soy, and cotton. It is ultimately the unnatural cross breeding of plants, animals, bacteria, and virus genes (Non-GMO Project). But now why is there a debate for placing a label to notify consumers of GMOs in their foods? Do we know the potential harm that GMOs can cause? We have the right to know what we are putting into our bodies and what is found in our everyday foods.

Many will argue that Genetically Modified Organisms(GMOs) are not safe for human consumption, however they are almost inevitable for our everyday food consumption. Some argue that the recent increase in gluten intolerance is caused by GMO foods (Argument against). Other state that the risk to humans by GMO’s is relatively small (The GMO”). The bottom line is what people put into their bodies is a personal choice and a person should be able to easily tell if a product has been genetically modified or not.

1) What are the ethical issues in this case? There are a few ethical issues in this case, making genetically engineered food and distributing to the public without the publics knowledge is unethical. Another ethical issue is not knowing what side affects of the engineered food will do to humans in the long term. It is still not determined whether or not some of these GM foods will cause health problems in humans in the long run and should be tested like new drug have to be tested. It seems to me that the government is not as strict on GM foods like they are on new drugs being tested.

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Controversy started in 1994, when the commercial sale of GMOs began. Dictionary.com states, “A GMO is an organism whose genome has been altered by the techniques of genetic engineering so that its DNA contains one or more genes not normally found their” (Definition+of+gmo). As it may sound unethical to inject other genes into a perfectly normal plant, “As much as “70 percent” of food prepackaged in a normal grocery store contain genetically modified foods” (Negative Impacts on GM foods) stated Genetically Modified Foods.

Research are making efforts to confront GMO organizations. Natural foods, fruits , un modified healthy food are being produced often, as well as markets are starting to convey organization the demands of healthy foods. Such as Goodness Me , Whole Foods, Bulk Barn, Healthy Planet,Feel Good Natural Health store be-leave in health, they market natural fruits,foods, grains, juices,meats that are free of GMO preservatives ...and to avoid GMO you can cook your own foods, cook from scratch, buy organic in local places .We have a responsibility and We have a choice to stay healthy; if we want quality then we must to spend money

According to the article “Foreign Policy in Focus” there are twenty-six countries that have banned GMOs for good because of all the negative side effects GMOs have. Even still, there are other countries that allow GMOs but are required to have a label with everything that used to make the product. Additionally, farmers have many positive, but also negative opinions when it comes to the use of GMOs. Looking at it on the positive side they are able to use fewer pesticides on crops but farmers are afraid that sooner or later worms and weeds will adapt. If you look at it in the negative side biotechnology companies have been able to obtain patents with which to restrict the use of GMOs. As a result, the companies that make GMOs now have the power to sue farmers whose fields are contaminated with GMOs even when it is the result of inevitable drift from neighboring fields. GMOs therefore pose a serious threat to farmer sovereignty and to the national food security of any country where they are grown, including the United States. Many farmers are beginning to take different alternatives to this problem. For example, farmers are now abandoning GMO seeds for crops and using non-GMO seeds; not only are they better, but they also bring farmers a higher profit since there is a demand for non-GMO

Although GMO can be helpful, it also can be reportedly damaging in relation with health. In 1999, a scientist conducted an experiment; feeding some mice GMO foods, and some other mice non-GMO foods. The mice that were fed GMO products showed signs of precancerous cells while the other mice were completely healthy. (Science in the News). After the information was given to the public, the researcher was fired. The public went into a mass of chaos. People stretched the story, others changed it, but nonetheless GMOs had been

"The World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the British Royal Society, and every other respected organization that has examined the evidence has come to the same conclusion: Consuming foods containing ingredients derived from GM crops is no riskier than consuming the same foods containing ingredients from crop plants modified by conventional plant improvement techniques," according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Lallanilla). If all of these organizations feel that these products are just as safe as “organic” products, then that mean something. The fear of genetically modified organisms seems to be more emotional than factual. More of our natural resources are being saved due to the use of GM technology. More recently, the FDA has approved potatoes that are genetically modified to not bruise and apples that do not brown. These apples were created by decreasing the amount of the enzyme in them that causes them to brown or bruise. Tomatoes have been created antifreeze genes from coldwater fish that cause the tomatoes to resist frost and freezing temperatures (Lallanilla). Tomato prices can skyrocket in the winter months when the production of tomatoes is limited to only certain areas of the world. If these tomatoes were approved, these prices would go down and we would not have to worry about the lack of

Food and Drug Administration has tested [and approved] all the GMOs on the market". The FDA does not have adequate information to deem these products safe because they haven't tested the long term effects. What is troubling is that anything that has been removed from the market by the FDA, was also once approved by the FDA. They are under no liability to ensure that these products are safe; they aren't sued, the companies are. In addition, a previous article, titled “Do Seed Companies Control GM Crop Research?” written by Scientific American (also from the editors) contradicts this article. It states that “unfortunately, it is impossible to verify that genetically modified crops perform as advertised. That is because agritech companies have given themselves veto power over the work of independent researchers.” By containing false and contradictory statements, the credibility of this article (ethos) is greatly diminished. This certainly is a relevant piece for all food consumers in America, because ultimately it is up to us to decide to police our

They do not realize that humans, through breeding, have been manipulating the genetic make-up of crops and farm animals for 10,000 years.” (Marris 1). Genetic modification is the selection of a desired trait by either manually adding the select gene to the crop, or breeding crops with those traits, eliminating those crops without that desired gene. The reason why breeding methods of genetic modification have faded is that selective breeding can be hit or miss and takes a lot of time and is not very accurate. Genetic engineering, on the other hand, can create plants and animals with whatever gene that we are aiming for and pull the exact desired trait very rapidly and with great accuracy. With this technology, scientists are able to create organisms of all life which includes crops that yield more produce, hold vaccinations, and even improved nutritional content. Therefore, there is nothing unnatural about genetic modification, Its simply selective breeding on a broad spectrum and it opens up so many opportunities for the livestock industry. Also, there is no proven risk with the consumption of genetically engineered foods considering “The U.S Food and Drug Administration has established the safety and integrity of GMOs.” (Johnson 1).A big concern is with the public, but if the FDA doesn’t see a problem with GMOs then why do they get such a negative rep? “70% of the population thinks that ordinary tomatoes do not contain genes,

According to the World Health Organization (2014. 1), "Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can be defined as organisms (i.e. plants, animals or microorganisms) in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination. The technology is often called 'modern biotechnology ' or 'gene technology ', sometimes also 'recombinant DNA technology ' or 'genetic engineering '. Foods produced from or using GM organisms are often referred to as GM foods.” Many organic crops farming farmers are against cultivating of GM crops because of the threat to farm land and environment however, biotechnology companies and GM crops growing famer desire to have profit and consumer look for low price. Thus, the debate over the environmental impact of genetically modified GM crops is growing. Although GM crops negatively affects on some organism in environment, they reduce the use of pesticides and increase crop yield.

As the earth’s atmosphere is gaining more and more energy, a few big problems are presenting themselves: major ice melt, forest fires, heatwaves, and air pollution. All of these are effects from one major cause, global warming. A common debate is whether global warming is manmade or a natural occurrence. Whatever the conclusion, humans certainly contribute to the mess. The human race must decrease dependency on fossil fuels in order to slow down or reverse global warming.