Should you worry about GMOs?
This article talks about the affects that GMOs may or may not have on your health. Most of the article illustrates that GMOs do not have a large affect on human health. "No harm has been demonstrated with ingestion of these foods from genetically modified plants," says Irwin H. Rosenberg, MD, University Professor at Tufts' Friedman School and editor of the Health & Nutrition Letter. "The opposition, while raising questions of safety, has actually been cultural rather than scientific. Even arguments against GMOs on environmental impacts have not been supported empirically." As Rosenberg states, many negative connotations that GMOs have are just that, connotations. They are implied to be bad. Society has developed a negative view about them because they are so new and people do not know much about them.
This is relevant to what we are learning about in class becuase while there may be minimal affects of GMOs on your health, the economy aspect of them can be scary and overwhelming. Monsanto for example, have monopolized on the GMO soybean crop. Monsanto even will sue farmers for not using their crop. The problem with monopolies is that they can completely control the price of the product. That is why they are so heavily dissuaded in America. If one company has so much power over one food then they could possibly have power of what nutrients go in the food or what important nutrients do not go in the food.
Just eat responsibly I guess.
I believe that a lot of people are not actually aware of GMOs and are skeptical to GMOs because of what they hear. Some people do avoid GMOs partly because GMOs usually come from harshly treated animals and crops.
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