Gmo Is A Harm To Human ?
Essay by 24 • January 4, 2011 • 1,173 Words (5 Pages) • 1,621 Views
Genetically modified food are organisms that combining genes from different
organisams. It is a revolutionary technology called вЂ"recombinant DNA technology.
It is the most debatable issue between scientists and the public. Its sneak
into our daily life without any notice. It is increasingly difficult to decide whether GMO
are safe , as we , the public are not given all the relevant information regarding
the safety of GMO.
The pledge of Monsanto, the leading Biotechnology Company genetic
engineer’s claimed that genetic engineer’s existance is to meet world demand and the world hunger. The world
population is predicted to be way higher than nowadays. It is going to double up
the population of now. Facing such serious challenge, agriculture have to ensure
there are enough food supply to meet the need of the booming population .GMO
foods are considered as the only way to solve the problem. The following factors
make the biotechnology companies keep their promises: Crops which been
genetically modified are pest resistance, herbicide tolerance, disease resistance,
cold tolerance, brought tolerance, salinity tolerance, cold tolerance,
nutrition…etc .GMO food with above advantages can avoid being lost in drought,
and said to be helpful in reducing the cost of production. Crop losses from insect
pests cause a huge amount of financial loss. Avoiding financial losses is not the
only reason of the existence of GMO, it also reduced the use of pesticides . Public are concern about the health effect
of using pesticides. Some researches show that injecting the residue of
pesticides in a long-term period can cause cancer. Public have a thought that the
lesser use of pesticides, the lesser harm to them.
GMO can meet the criteria fully. Not just meeting world demand, GMO are said
to be a new technology to solve the global hunger. However, some criticisms
against it acutely.
“ We’ re fooling ourself if we think we can solve social and political
problems with technological fixes.” (David Suzuki).In the three world countries such as Zimbabwe, citizens have no sufficient knowledge,
richness soil and suitable weather to grow their crop. And that lead them to
suffer hunger. GMO industries said GMO acts as the first aid of world hunger, but
it’s actually the weapon of it.” The genetically modified food industries, reeling
under a growing rejection of its untested and harmful food products there is
money in hunger, starvation and death.”(Devinder Sharma) the Food aid USAID
will ship the food (GM corn) to Africa. And Africa will pay those by the money
lend from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. And the seller вЂ"the
huge biotechnology industries get their huge profit from the
poor suffering people. After that, the World Bank will ask Africa to pay off their
debts either pay in US currency or by organic corns. First of all, all those
countries are under the poverty line, they have no ability to pay off the debt by
the US currency. Secondly, they are already suffering from hunger though out
the years. They still pay off their debts by their food, even they are lacking of
food. That’s political problems. That’s what the real fact of world hunger .The
dirty, nasty political issue is injuring the life of the poor. Also the greedy
industries, they are using the life of the poor, they are making the poor to be
their huge experiment without any giving any choices to them. And not just the
poor is in their experiment, the nature, the earth are on in too.
GM foods are both Good and evil. Its evil to the nature and maybe
human.” The raises questions about the impact of GM crops on
biodiversity.”(David Suzuki). Scientists are not sure about the GM food �s health risk
on human. But it definitely knows the impact on the biodiversity. As I mentioned
before, some GM crop are genetically modified to have the resistance of pest.
That might be a good thing provided that it grows in the quarantine area.
However it isn’t. These crop’s seed will hybridize with the weed .As result, a
“super weed”-that a weed has the resistance to some kind of pesticides,formed .
Eventully, It will reduce the effective of pesticides. Not just that, it will
disturb
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