Corn Should Be Good For People To Eat

Before completing this exercise, my initial position on genetically modified foods was that they were safe and healthy for people to eat. My character for the reacting to the past Africa game was the role as a Monsanto scientist who was on the pro-GMO faction side. One of the responsibilities for my character was to convince the Africans that there are no reasons scientifically that they shouldn’t accept corn. For my argument, I wrote that corn should be safe for Africans because they are considered to be healthy. Corn would be good for them because it’s good for nutrition, good source of fiber, and it has rich source of vitamins. Another reason why I thought corn should be considered safe was because it’s protected from any deadly insects that are harmful to the environment. I found that eight to twelve percent of the corn acres planted nationally have been treated for control of European corn borers and southwestern corn borers.

After completing this activity, my mind did change about genetically modified foods. The reason why I change my mind was because …show more content…
The world hunger problem has been an issue for many years, and I hate to see someone who doesn’t have food because it really hurts. Another solution to fix the world hunger problem is to make sure that healthy food are being sent over because you don’t want to send any food that is bad for the body. Food such as fruits and vegetables would also good for nutrition because it’s important to live a healthy life. I believe this exercise went better than the cholera exercise because I like how everyone was able to get a chance to say how they feel about the hunger problem in Africa. The best part about this activity was discussing the hunger problem in Africa because today some of those people are malnourished and still living without