Can We Feed Our World Without Monsanto

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All the world, there is a controversial debate about genetically modified organisms. Today’s food production uses GMOs, which are “genetically modified organisms that have genes copied from other organisms” (Jalonick). The way this happens is genes from another organism have been taken and injected into an organism that is being grown. The United States has initiated in moving forward with this idea. With there being an abundant amount of people born globally, scientists’ are trying to find a sufficient way to grow food without countless products spoiling. With there being many debates, such as genetically modified organisms are bad for people and more chemicals are being used than on organic products, about genetically modified organisms more …show more content…
In the article "Can We Feed Our World Without Monsanto?" written by April Davila it states that “studies have blamed damage to the kidneys, livers, and reproductive systems of lab mice on diets containing Monsanto’s genetically modified organisms” (Davila). What may be true for one mouse may be different from another. While test labs are made up of 95 percent of lab mice/rats there is little consistency in test that are practiced on the animals. So, with this being said, the same results could possibly not be true for humans since there is not a consistency throughout the studies. One critic from the article “Debate: Should We Genetically Modify Food?” Charles Benbrook, stated, “widespread use of crops have lead to an increase in herbicide and pesticide resistant weeds and insects”. Farmers and other growers do use herbicides and pesticides to decrease the amount of insects and weeds that are around their cash crops. By growers using chemicals to protect their products/plants it is evident that by using this method more food will be provided for future

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