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=** GMO'S GOOD OR BAD?? **=

Dear Editor, This shows how useful GMO's are for bigger and better food.

GMO's are very used for many things. With the GMO you can have cheaper food, farm in many climates, diesease fighting food, less pesticides, improve life of farmers. The GMO's can help so many people. The world is starving because they do not have enough money for food. With the GMO's people can grow more food that is cheaper and provide for more people. Scientists can modify food so that the food can grow in harsh environments. With the modified food it could grown in the Desert or Antarctica. An example of disease fighting foods is tobacco that helps fight and prevent HIV. In the video we watched in class scientists made tobacco to fight HIV. This is very useful to cheaply prevent HIV. GMO's can be modified to kill bugs if they eat the plant. This means less pesticides to pollute the environment. Farmers lives can drastically change for the better with GMO's. The farmer does not have to produce as much crop or work as hard for the crop. This is tremendously helpful for everyone in the world.



The reason why we do not want to have GMO'S because they cause health risks, enviornment conditions, modified genes could spread from the crop to the native plants in the enviornment and cause problems. "FDA scientists, on theother hand, warned that GMOs can create unpredictable, hard-to-detect side effects, including allergies, toxins, new diseases, and nutritional problems." says an article from the Institute for Responsible Technology. Genetically modified organisms do cause health risks. Allergies are health risks, I have allergies and if i get an allergic reaction to a genetically modified organism there is a possiblity I could die. Also genetically modified organisms cause enviornment conditions. "Some GMOs can possess genuinely new characteristics that may require greater scrutiny than organisms produced by traditional techniques of plant and animal breeding. Since long-term ecological impacts of GMOs may be extremely difficult to predict or study prior to commercialization, ESA strongly recommends a cautious approach to releasing GMOs into the environment." says an article called Enviornmental Hazards. What this quote means is that GMO's are harmful to plants and animals. So it definitely causes enviornmental problems. - Paigee Willard

Works Cited [] - first quote

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_organisms

http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/gmfood/overview.php

http://organic.lovetoknow.com/Pros_and_Cons_of_GMOs

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