Tuesday, March 31, 2015
GMO's are Goooooooooooooood
Recently, I have been quite immersed in the topic of GMO's thanks to our beloved research paper. In my paper, I took a very unbiased standpoint due to the fact that I really didn't know very much on the issue itself; but as I read more and more, I began taking the side of supporting the use of GMO's. This is because I began generalizing the entire debate into the most simplistic ways possible. To me, I saw it as the side that supports GMO's is composed majoritarily of scientists, government officials, business entrepreneurs, and others who believe in the advancement of technology, while those who are against it are mostly farmer, health experts, or people who had been negatively affected by this new method of mass food production. To generalize even further, the supporters of GM foods are more liberal, and those against are conservative. Maybe it's just the fact that I was raised in a very liberal California, or even just the fact being that I'm a science nerd, but either way I feel GMO's are worth the sacrifices they require us to make. Yes it sucks for farmers, but I really don't feel farming is a profession people should be pursuing nowadays. Further, I feel that with enough research, GM foods could be modified further to solve the problems they are causing us now. Also, even though GMO's are costing society a chunk of money, I see it as an investment into something that could greatly benefit us in the future and apply to a much wider range of uses. All in all, I am a supporter of GMO's.
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Regarding this post I have to disagree with Jeremy. Although many of these modified substances can protect and defend plants and crops against insects and viruses, the end result of too much modification can be harmful. I think that if we were to use and consume only organic foods, our consumers would be much more healthy. Organic foods can be very expensive, and this is a significant reason to turn aside organic foods, but can you really put a price on human health?
ReplyDeleteI disagree with you Jeremy, but I do agree with Che. This is because GMO's are just a breach to our natural society. We should be able to eat our food knowing that it was created just as naturally as everything else in this world. Who knows exactly what type of chemical and cancerous ingredients are put into these GMO's? And what makes it worse is the fact that most of America is withheld from this information. We should start to retract back to our old days, where there was no choice but to eat organically grown food.
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