Health and Globalization
As the movement people, goods and food across the globe increase so do the undesired consequences, a scenario that creates a greater risk of infectious diseases and viruses quickly spreading leading to serious public health problems. I would argue that it is not practical to stop global trade and travel to avoid these problems because the upsides, such as providing year-round fresh fruit and vegetables and medication for the most serious of illnesses to regions that would otherwise go without, outweighs these negative aspects. At the today’s speed of international travel and trade developed nations with properly allocated resource can respond to any number of conditions for a positive effect on the well-being of those in need ("Health | Globalization101", 2017).
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The signification increases in farming output provided by GMOs can greatly assist in providing much-needed food to the millions of starving people in Sub-Saharan Africa. However; because the use of GMOs is a recent phenomenon, sufficient time has not yet passed to fully study and understand if these products have any negative side-effects on people who consume them or the environment where grown. In the event, there is even a slight chance of altering a person’s predisposition towards any diseases, the greater the number of people fed by these crops the great the potential for disaster. There are additional concerns that modified crops will negatively harm biodiversity through cross-pollination with non-modified crops. Any scenario, whether harmful to human or the modification non-modified crops would only lead to the worsening hunger and malnutrition ("Health | Globalization101",
As the movement people, goods and food across the globe increase so do the undesired consequences, a scenario that creates a greater risk of infectious diseases and viruses quickly spreading leading to serious public health problems. I would argue that it is not practical to stop global trade and travel to avoid these problems because the upsides, such as providing year-round fresh fruit and vegetables and medication for the most serious of illnesses to regions that would otherwise go without, outweighs these negative aspects. At the today’s speed of international travel and trade developed nations with properly allocated resource can respond to any number of conditions for a positive effect on the well-being of those in need ("Health | Globalization101", 2017).
The increase of the food trade …show more content…
The signification increases in farming output provided by GMOs can greatly assist in providing much-needed food to the millions of starving people in Sub-Saharan Africa. However; because the use of GMOs is a recent phenomenon, sufficient time has not yet passed to fully study and understand if these products have any negative side-effects on people who consume them or the environment where grown. In the event, there is even a slight chance of altering a person’s predisposition towards any diseases, the greater the number of people fed by these crops the great the potential for disaster. There are additional concerns that modified crops will negatively harm biodiversity through cross-pollination with non-modified crops. Any scenario, whether harmful to human or the modification non-modified crops would only lead to the worsening hunger and malnutrition ("Health | Globalization101",