Negative Impacts Of Gmos
Negative Impacts of GMOs The rising number of people and populations mean there are many more mouths to feed in the world. With 842 million people starving today (Price,1), farms and food production businesses are forced to create larger amounts of food with less space available, leading to an increased production in what can become a deadly diet, GMOs. GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organisms and involves both plants and animals that are chemically engineered to grow larger and last longer. This artificial “healthy” food is put into the diet of people, most often without their awareness. Animals are force fed antibiotics that should not be in their diet, and plants are poisoned with ingredients that are hostile to the human
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The negative impacts of genetically modified organisms include not only their unnatural farming, but also the result of their consumption and their growth issues, which is why …show more content…
Each year, crops are blanketed in herbicides and pesticides while animals are fed mass numbers of antibiotics in hopes of creating the best food. Yet each year more people are diagnosed with disabilities such as Autism (Smith). In fact, GMOs have been found to hold connections too many disabilities. Those who eat GMO’s are consuming false nutrition; this is similar to a baby being fed just formula, and no breast milk. People who eat GMOs do not get the full and natural benefits of what they would have gained if they had eaten organic foods instead. There is evidence that some of the chemicals which replace the nutritional content of GMOs are leading towards alterations in DNA thus resulting in disabilities. In Jeffrey M. Smith’s movie “Genetic Roulette”, he discusses the health risks that GMOs cause and how they go unnoticed until it is too late; “You ever hear of anybody who smoked a cigarette and died of lung cancer in 90 days? No. It takes years…same as it does for rats. Those 2,000 GMO-funded studies…they’re all 90 day studies.” These same short term tests are what’s going towards efforts to study the effects of antibiotic fed cows on humans. Jennifer Weeks explains in her article on page 4, “Factory Farms”, each year,
The negative impacts of genetically modified organisms include not only their unnatural farming, but also the result of their consumption and their growth issues, which is why …show more content…
Each year, crops are blanketed in herbicides and pesticides while animals are fed mass numbers of antibiotics in hopes of creating the best food. Yet each year more people are diagnosed with disabilities such as Autism (Smith). In fact, GMOs have been found to hold connections too many disabilities. Those who eat GMO’s are consuming false nutrition; this is similar to a baby being fed just formula, and no breast milk. People who eat GMOs do not get the full and natural benefits of what they would have gained if they had eaten organic foods instead. There is evidence that some of the chemicals which replace the nutritional content of GMOs are leading towards alterations in DNA thus resulting in disabilities. In Jeffrey M. Smith’s movie “Genetic Roulette”, he discusses the health risks that GMOs cause and how they go unnoticed until it is too late; “You ever hear of anybody who smoked a cigarette and died of lung cancer in 90 days? No. It takes years…same as it does for rats. Those 2,000 GMO-funded studies…they’re all 90 day studies.” These same short term tests are what’s going towards efforts to study the effects of antibiotic fed cows on humans. Jennifer Weeks explains in her article on page 4, “Factory Farms”, each year,