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What is [|Genetically Engineered food] anyway? Well it is food that has been genetically altered to add to a product. For example you can genetically modify a plant so that it is imune to pestasides. Why would we do that you may ask. Well if the plant is immune to pestacides then farmers can spray entire crop fields with pesticides and the plant will not be effected but will thrive because of the absence of pests. By genetically modifying crops farmers can grow more crops in more places. I believe that genetically modified food need to be labeled but is definately a good thing. Genetically modified food does no harm to us it just puts more food on our plate as well as the farmers plate. You may ask, how doese it do that? Well if farmers can grow more "good" healthy crops then they can sell more. And if they can sell more they have more money and a bigger surplus of crops. More money means more food. While for us more food in the stores means slightly lower prices which means more food for the money. Around 60-70% of foods in the grocery stores are genetically engineered. However, we do not know which ones because they are not labeled. This needs to change, people are up in arms about genetically engineered food so put a label on and then they can just not buy it or they can try it and know, ok it isn't bad. Farmers can not give up genetically engineered foods though, they ar to dependent on them. Without GE foods farmers are in danger of not having enough crops grow. Also all there crops could be killed from something as simple as an insect proble. Whereas with GE the crop could be immune to all insects, weather and known diseases. GE does nothing but improve the livleyhood of both the producers and the consumers. I don't know how anyone can argue with facts about GE. Opinions are one thing but there are facts that prove GE to be helpful. For example it is proven that there are no health risks associated with GE food. So why would you or anyone else want to make the lively hood of farmers and consumers harder? You answer that!