Monsanto Argumentative Essay

As the production of agriculture evolves, so does the research of developing genetic engineered foods, which are funded and created by large corporations. A prominent example of a corporation that supports and emanates a large amount of funds towards genetically modified foods, is Monsanto. Monsanto uses their funds towards biotechnology, which is the abuse of biological processes, for industrial use like genetic engineering. In this process, genetic engineers are able to produce the seeds that Monsanto sells to farmers. Which grow their genetically engineered experiments. The seeds then grow into genetically modified foods that are put into the market, unlabeled, for consumers. Genetically modified foods (GMFs) are foods that have been genetically
Jefferson also argues that, “In addition to alleviating world hunger, the production of GMFs can easily meet agricultural demands associated with population increase” (1). However, GMFs is not the solution to ending world hunger because the problem of world hunger isn’t underproduction, it’s unable to get the food they need. With or without genetically modified food, there is overproduction which means that GMFs won’t make a difference in world hunger. Now as of meeting agricultural demands, there are other ways we could meet those needs. For example, agroecology which is the study of ecological processes that conducts the agricultural production system. With agroecology, we can use less chemicals that harm plants and humans, to get healthy growing crops. Bittman informs us that, “…it’s been adequately demonstrated that crop rotation, the use of organic fertilizers, interplanting of varieties of crops, and other ecologically informed techniques commonly grouped under the term “agroecology” can effectively reduce the use of chemicals” (2). So then why do we turn to GMFs instead of agroecology for