Gmo Cons

There have been major debates regarding the issue of genetically modified foods, or abbreviated GMOs. While some people believe the idea of GMO is positive, others think the opposite and that it is dangerous. This results in genetically modified foods being explained through pros and cons. The pros for GMOs are better overall quality and taste, more resistant to disease, and more nutrition benefits. For quality and taste, through the change of foods, the flavors can be enriched. An example would be peppers becoming even hotter or sweeter or corn becoming sweeter than they already are. Flavors that are complex become more edible. With plants and animals that have been genetically modified, they can become more immune to the abrupt conflicts of disease. It is almost like a vaccine for that plant or animal, but that it is encoded into the genetics rather than given to the immune system.

GMOs would cause harm to the environments because by nurturing plants or growing livestock in surroundings that generally would not provide for them, there is the possibility of permanently destructing that habitat. This is frequently seen through GMO crossbreeding like weeds, which can be combined with GMO plants, can often become resistant to weedkillers, producing the need for more GMO efforts. There is no economic value because GMO foods go through just as long of a process to grow and fully develop, signifying that there is no actual financial worth to cultivating GMO foods when classed with non-GMO foods. Lastly, through time and time, studies have shown that the ingestion of GMO foods increases chances of food allergies in people such as if someone was to develop an allergy to soy due to GMO and then livestock consumed that GMO soy too, that individual would be highly likely of an allergic reaction from eating the animal