Genetically Modified Food Should Be Limited
Genetically Modified Food Should be Limited
IPE 6 – Acadamec Writing Skills
Research Paper
February 17, 2013
Cigarettes and alcohol belong to the products with unhealthy substances which annually kill thousands people over the world. Many countries try to solve this global problem through the various campaigns or controversial advertisements. Governments attempt to make people conscious of all negatives of these products. However, this is not a case of genetically modified food. A lot of people are unaware of the content of genetically modified food, which they have been buying and eating every day for several years.
New kinds of allergies or various types of diseases star spreading in some countries and a lot of people can not find any reason for getting them. Genetically modified food should belimited because of negative effects on environment, economy, people and society.
Lack of information about genetically modified food causes that people do not have any possibility to make the same informed choice; therefore, this nontraditional food should have some limits. There are still a lot of people who have no idea about products which they buy and consume. When people go shopping to supermarkets, they can find great looking fruit, vegetable or meat; however, they can not see a label of GMF. For example, the
US is one of the countries which do not require labeling. According to Britanny Shoot
(2009), “the governmental and industry opposition to mandatory labeling has long been rooted in several arguments:” that production cost would be rapidly raised by labeling because of other monitoring of facilities; “that GM labels will signal safety or nutritional problems for consumers only accustomed to seeing nutritional information on labels and should therefore not be included” and that other labels “GM” and “GM-free” would be required. Therefore, production of genetically modified food should have some boundars if there are still
IPE 6 – Acadamec Writing Skills
Research Paper
February 17, 2013
Cigarettes and alcohol belong to the products with unhealthy substances which annually kill thousands people over the world. Many countries try to solve this global problem through the various campaigns or controversial advertisements. Governments attempt to make people conscious of all negatives of these products. However, this is not a case of genetically modified food. A lot of people are unaware of the content of genetically modified food, which they have been buying and eating every day for several years.
New kinds of allergies or various types of diseases star spreading in some countries and a lot of people can not find any reason for getting them. Genetically modified food should belimited because of negative effects on environment, economy, people and society.
Lack of information about genetically modified food causes that people do not have any possibility to make the same informed choice; therefore, this nontraditional food should have some limits. There are still a lot of people who have no idea about products which they buy and consume. When people go shopping to supermarkets, they can find great looking fruit, vegetable or meat; however, they can not see a label of GMF. For example, the
US is one of the countries which do not require labeling. According to Britanny Shoot
(2009), “the governmental and industry opposition to mandatory labeling has long been rooted in several arguments:” that production cost would be rapidly raised by labeling because of other monitoring of facilities; “that GM labels will signal safety or nutritional problems for consumers only accustomed to seeing nutritional information on labels and should therefore not be included” and that other labels “GM” and “GM-free” would be required. Therefore, production of genetically modified food should have some boundars if there are still