Essay Prompt #7
Prompt: More and more farmers and food manufacturers are genetically modifying their crops to reduce susceptibility to disease, improve flavor, and reduce costs. Do you think genetically modifying foods is a good idea? Why or why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.
Wouldn’t you want to know what you eat? Well, in our society they are now putting genetically modified organisms into our foods for “good purposes.” I think this is wrong because most of the time it is to make the food look better and larger, while naturally it would not be like that. This is why many diseases get into our foods now because of these genetically modifies organisms. They are not going through the natural process that they should be going through, which does not make them immune to what they should normally be immune to,
Nowadays people always try to find the best product for the cheapest price. Currently our country is in a recession, and people cannot afford many things as they use to. This is why especially in foods; they try to find the best and biggest piece of produce for the best price they could find. Although the down side to it, is that most likely that piece of produce has been injected with genetically modified organisms to look juicier and better tasting than others. This means that the person who bought that produce really does not know what they’re eating because it has unknown chemicals in it.
Recently we have had outbreaks of diseases coming from our foods. I think the main reason of for this problem is the genetically modified organisms being put into the produce that we eat. When produce is not planted right or when livestock is not raised right, they do out come out how they were originally intended too. Especially with genetically modified organisms in them, because normally foods do not suppose to come out as big as they do when they have genetically modified organisms. They suppose to come out in a descent size, and with it like this, it is grown naturally, meaning it is healthier than others that contain genetically modified organisms.
An example of genetically modifies organisms gone wrong, are with our cows. They inject this into cows to make them grow much bigger and grow twice as faster than a normal cow should grow. This hurts the poor innocent animals because when they grow to a sixe that was not meant for them, they sometimes can no longer walk on their legs. Some cows to survive even force themselves to walk on their broken legs to eat or drink water. Cows should not be treated this way, and neither should be injected with genetically modified organisms.
We should all have the right to know what we buy and eat, because unknown substances can harm and result in serious illnesses. Genetically modifies organisms should be stopped for the people and for the animals. They can feel as we can they should not be harmed in any way possible, because they do benefit us, and if they are sick then we will get sick as well. That is why I think genetically modified organisms is a bad idea.
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