Genetically Modified Foods Argumentative Analysis

“If you aren’t concerned about the DNA from blueberries “transferring” into you, then you should not be concerned about DNA from GMOs either,”says Layla Katiraee in her article “10 Studies Proving GMOs Are Harmful”(Katiraee). More and more Americans are becoming worried about the use of Genetically Modified Organisms in their food. The controversy of the use of GMOs in food can be understood through examining how they work, their disadvantages, and their advantages. Farming has transformed so much over the years. Six thousand years ago, farmers had holding pens and growing fields (Shmaefsky 1). In today's world farming is not that simple. Since farming has transformed, larger operations are taking away a lot of the mom and pop farms, and making them big industrial farms. Another change is the restaurant industry, which grew in the 1950s, causing the need for more crops, but in a shorter amount of time (Shmaefsky 37). Farmers are using Genetically Modified Organisms to farm more and at a quicker rate.
Genetically Modified Organisms are used to help farmers crops produce quicker, but mainly to give a certain crop the traits it needs to grow in particular areas. Also, there are …show more content…
If a local farmer has fields near a big industrial farm that uses spray pesticides that helps benefit their crops and overspray gets on the local farmer's field, the industry farmer can sue him due to patents (“GMOs”). With that being said, genetically modified organisms affect farmers in all sorts of ways (“GMOs”). Recent polls from New York Times and CBS state that fifty-three percent of people would not buy food with genetically modified organisms in them (“GMOs”). What people do not realize is that farmers have to modify food so it will grow faster to feed our population, because we have a very large population, and local farms are not able to grow enough crops much less quick enough to feed the people in their

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