Genetically Modified Food Needs

to Stay
By: River Gillin
Genetically Modified
With technology advancing the urge to enhancing certain organisms has gone up. Genetic modifications are
when an organism or crop genes are being modified and mixed with other organisms. Genetic modifications
have been around for thousands of years, but it is not even close to what we are doing now. Scientist used to
use selective breeding to enhance the crop. Now humans have the technology to use one gene from one
organism and another gene from a completely different organism. Which is called gene splicing (GMO
Facts). When gene splicing the crop can become unstable, but if scientists keep researching and testing
these crops they might become more stable. (Genetically Modified Food)
Why Genetically Modified Food is Bad
There are cons of genetically modified food, but all of them can be fixed. First, the modified plant can mix
with the non modified plants and then every plant in that field is modified without the farmer knowing
(Genetically Modified Food). Yes, this can happen but if scientists study this more and more they can
create a solution to fix this. To add on, a big concern that people have is that most genetically modified food
is not labeled and people can be allergic to the modified plant. This is an easy fix put labels on your food and
know what genes you are actually mixing. Finally, there are many unknown consequences of genetically
modifying. Yes, there are very important consequences but with scientists, engineers, and many more people
working on this, these problems can be fixed.
Why Genetically Modified Food is Good
These are only a few of the many pros of genetically modified food. To begin with, farmers can protect their
crops from insects without spraying chemicals. Also, they can have mass production of one crop. Secondly, it
can help with hunger. Specifically, scientists can change a crop to live in the drylands or the wetlands. This
can help if a city or town cant grow food because of their environment. Also, almost every food is modified
at least once, so it would be very hard to reverse this process. In other words, it would take many attempts
and research to get the one strip of the gene out of the crop. Finally, scientists can work with doctors to put
vaccines in fruit and vegetables to make a cheap vaccines that most people can receive. This is why
genetically modified food needs to stay (Genetically Modified Food).
Conclusion
Genetically modified food needs to stay. It does have some cons but they can be fixed if people keep
researching and using genetically modified food. Genetically modified food is everywhere, it helps with
starvation, to grow and protect crops, and to put vaccines in fruit and vegetables. These are only a few of the
many great reasons genetically modified food needs to stay.
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