Persuasive Essay On Gmo Foods

People should know what is in the food they eat today. The package should tell us the things they put in these Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs for short. They should do this because: we do not know what harmful things are in the foods, the side effects it has on other foods too, and no real testing has been done to prove these foods are even okay for us to eat. These foods should have labels because we do not know what they contain in them. The company that produces GMOs do not put what they crossed with whatever we eat. Which means that we could be eating things we did not even know that is really bad for us. According to the website “say no to GMOs” they define Gmos by saying, “Genetic modification is a crude and imprecise way
“Say no to GMOs” adds, “The resulting GM foods have undergone little rigorous and no long term safety testing, but animal feeding tests have shown worrying health effects.” They have done test on animals however not on humans. If they do go into testing it is short terms and nobody's there to regulate how they do the test and they could easily alter the results. The only test that has been published on GMOs found that these food had contained gut bacteria but was never researched or looked into any further. So we have no real evidence that these foods are okay to eat. No one is there to look into the illnesses that these foods has caused. On the same token we have no clue who or how many people have been affected by GMOs. On the other hand, many supporters of not labeling GMOs say that it helps the farming techniques and you are able to mass produce crops and increase the food surplus. It is true it speeds up the process of crop growing and increases the mass production, however doing this spreads more chemicals to their plants and has a big chance to contaminate the other crops that we eat everyday. Increasing the amount of diseases we can