Persuasive Essay On Food Safety

There are very few aspects of life that humans can generally agree are both necessary to survival and enjoyable to do. For example, wearing a seatbelt, while having the ability to save one’s life in the event of an automobile accident, is rarely ever looked forward to; wearing a lifejacket would surely save one from drowning, yet it is unanimously the least favorite part of anyone’s canoeing trip. Consequently, when a common commodity of life meets both of the criteria, it is sensibly a prominent part of life. Food: not only is it the easiest way to make friends in any given situation, but one would literally die without it. So, food safety is understandably one of the most important elements for building a successful civilization; without it, no one would have friends, and the population would briefly consist of people like the Swiss woman who attempted to survive off …show more content…
Should these bills become laws, an already active anti-GMO movement could quickly spread further across the nation, affecting multiple aspects of the American lifestyle, from the means of production, to the means of retail, and to the means within the common American’s wallet. Yet the movement to label foods containing genetically engineered ingredients has increasingly become less a matter of public safety and more of a matter of politics as speculation is disproved by reality. YouTube SciShow host Hank Green puts it best: “[GMOs] aren’t bad. They’re just not, not intrinsically, and certainly not [in terms of] health”(Green, “Why Are GMOs Bad?”). Because of broad scientific consensus, the United States Federal Government should ban states legislatures from mandating laws that would require food producers to identify that their product contains genetically engineered