Food safety is a very banal issue nowadays. The community wants to know and feel the need to know that kind of food they are ingesting, what they are exposed to. This issue, after years of debate is still not deciphered. The food industry is a major and important concern regarding health and ethics. There has been a lot of confusion, manipulation and faulty information about the topic. A lot of people now are in war with the biotechnological process for genetically modified food; anti-GMO movements have been springing. There are major big companies that have some control over America’s food supply in an enormous way, for example Monsanto. But the major point of this paper is focused on the controversy that has made GMO foods very noticeable.
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Also another big factor for the rejection and all the non-GMO campaigns that have been going on it is because the communities are worried that big companies, for example Monsanto, are taking over and controlling the food supply of this country. Robert Paarlberg stated, “While non-governmental organizations like to depict companies as somehow forcing GMO foods down the throats of consumers, nothing could be farther from the truth” (2014). In other words, Paarlberg is saying that such big companies have a lot of control on the consumers or the people, that their agribusiness practices are unethical. That is a major reason that people cannot stand these companies, besides the reasons earlier …show more content…
This is because of the claims that they are all natural without pesticides or any type of chemicals and that they have higher nutritional values. David L. Katz established that “Organic food is neither more nutritious nor any less prone to bacterial contamination than corresponding, conventionally grown food” (2012). The truth is that going organic may be the good option because the food contains less chemical sprays traces; but it is not completely free of these, neither they are necessarily more nutritive than conventional. Just as with GM foods, there is not scientific or factual evidence. So, the decision is completely left for the consumers; what they want and works great for
Also another big factor for the rejection and all the non-GMO campaigns that have been going on it is because the communities are worried that big companies, for example Monsanto, are taking over and controlling the food supply of this country. Robert Paarlberg stated, “While non-governmental organizations like to depict companies as somehow forcing GMO foods down the throats of consumers, nothing could be farther from the truth” (2014). In other words, Paarlberg is saying that such big companies have a lot of control on the consumers or the people, that their agribusiness practices are unethical. That is a major reason that people cannot stand these companies, besides the reasons earlier …show more content…
This is because of the claims that they are all natural without pesticides or any type of chemicals and that they have higher nutritional values. David L. Katz established that “Organic food is neither more nutritious nor any less prone to bacterial contamination than corresponding, conventionally grown food” (2012). The truth is that going organic may be the good option because the food contains less chemical sprays traces; but it is not completely free of these, neither they are necessarily more nutritive than conventional. Just as with GM foods, there is not scientific or factual evidence. So, the decision is completely left for the consumers; what they want and works great for