Environmental Harm Associated With GMO Farming

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Humans have always taken control of their environment. The human species created houses, cars, and medicine to increase our comfort and longevity. These innovations are generally beneficial; however, they have allowed our population to increase substantially, and have injured our climate into chaos. If the human population intends to survive, they must combat the chaos they created. It seems that challenges posed by climate change and a growing world population the resistance to adverse conditions, increase in crop yield, and decrease in environmental harm associated with GMO's indicate that GMO farming will be the most sustainable farming method in the future.

If humans intend to survive adverse unnatural conditions, human food must do

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