Gmo Persuasive Essay

Imagine this, it is a normal day and you’re sitting on the couch watching TV. As you are watching your favorite show the news interrupts the TV show. The news tells you that the government has made a law that is making everything that has GMO’s in it illegal to sell and produce. Then the news gets of the TV and you just ignore what they just said and start watching your TV show. As time goes on everything seems normal until finally the day comes and you realize what’s going on around you. You see that people are starving and you are get really worried and start to think to yourself what in the heck is going on right now. As you are walking home you see a TV in a store that has the news on. You go into the store and listen to the news. The
But, in order to accommodate a rapidly growing population, it is necessary to increase crop production; therefore, the American public should overlook the negative media portrayal of genetically modified organisms and support the legalization of their use in food production throughout the
Ensuring an adequate food supply for this booming population is going to be a major challenge in the years to come.” Many people would say that we should not use GMO crops because we can produce enough crops to feed the growing population but they are wrong. When a farmer uses a GMO crop vs. a non-GMO crop they are almost guaranteed something to harvest because the GMO crops can withstand floods, droughts, and they are more resistant to diseases and insects then non-GMO crops. Also by using GMO’s you do not have all of the hassle of conventional farming. In conventional farming, you have to worry about disease and insects because you have to use spray every so often to keep up with the insects and diseases while with GMO farming you do not have to worry as much or at all because the seeds are already disease and insect so they are more tolerable than non-GMO