Arguments Against Gmo

Ali3 Many people have a huge misconception about GMOs especially GM foods that they are harmful to both the human body and the environment, but various studies have proven quite the opposite. GMOs can bring a plethora of benefits to almost every industry ranging from medical use to agricultural but is held back by a majority that believes in false accusations and unsupported studies. GMOs have the backing of almost every scientist and person who knows even a little about the subject of biotechnology yet still there is a huge opposition of mainly people who have fallen to Anti-GMO propaganda. In May 2016 the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine issued a report about GMOs saying they “found no substantiated evidence that foods from GE crops were less safe than foods from non-GE crops.” (nas). These studies cycled through hundreds of scientific reports (Lynas) and even then, Anti-GMO activists didn’t believe the report saying that it was “flawed”, “inaccurate”, and “The national Academies process was both impressively inclusive and explicitly consensual” (Lynas). These studies have shown that there is no difference between GM food and …show more content…
“The virus first hit Hawaii in the 1940s and by the 1990s had reached almost every area that grows papaya. Production fell 50 percent between 1993 and 2006.” (Held). The papaya industy was dying fast until a GM version of the papaya was introduced by Dennis Gonzales. The GM papaya or ‘Rainbow papaya” was modified with the ringspot virus making the papaya immune. “Within two years, more than half of all the papaya grown on Hawaii was GMO. A decade later, GM papaya accounted for over 90 percent of papaya production.” (Held). The papaya industry in Hawaii was back on track and farmers were also able to make profit again. The inventor of the “Rainbow papaya” says without biotechnology, “There’s no papaya industry. Simple as