Imagine sinking your teeth into Thanksgiving dinner. What do we have here? Ah yes! There’s some corn over here, soaked with temptatious butter and drenched in salt and pepper. The turkey in all it’s glory, the savory aroma filling your nostrils as you patiently wait your turn to grab the Thanksgiving necessity. All the stuffing, maybe even some potatoes. Oh! Don’t forget about the pumpkin pie! We Americans are so lucky that we have abundant access to food. Food that is delicious. Food that sustains. Food that we obviously enjoy. To what or whom do we owe our gratitude? Well, GMOs, our saviour, or so we thought. Farmers have been manipulating genes since agricultural practices began, giving us the desired food products we wish to consume. However,
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The FDA’s regulations on GMOs are liquid at best, and the GMOs are killing off species in our agricultural ecosystem, as well as creating a potential of food shortages due to rising weed resistance and high pesticide use. The American public needs to be notified about what is happening, but most importantly, the FDA needs to create stronger legislative practices and regulations on GMOs and other agricultural practices to combat these growing issues. The FDA needs to be stricter on how they allow GMO’s to be produced in the U.S. agricultural framework due to their adverse effects on the environment. After showing what GMO’s are and a bit of their history I will then show the immediate effects of GMO’s on bees which are an important part of nature’s ecosystem, then I will show how GMO’s are affecting their surrounding environment, which potentially devastates land use for environmental conservation in the …show more content…
To illustrate, remember that recent article that came out about bees going on the endangered species list? Merrit Kennedy from NPR news in Wyoming addressed this issue in her article Bees Added To U.S. Endangered Species List For 1st Time. Seven species of bees are getting “smaller and smaller” (Kennedy). Kennedy acknowledges that these species of bees are dwindling because they “are impacted by a wide variety of threats, including habitat destruction because of urbanization or nonnative animals, the introduction of nonnative plant species, wildfires, nonnative predators and natural events such as hurricanes, tsunamis and drought”. Yet in her article, EPA Finally Admits What Has Been Killing Bees For Decades, from March Against Monsanto published in 2016, Tami Canal addressed specific insecticides killing bees. This frightening truth should scare you enough to take immediate action. GMOs have built in pesticides, and a special one, called neonicotinoids, which is an agricultural insecticide that resembles nicotine, has lethal effects on bees. This poses a massive problem for those who adore food and eating because bees are the main pollinators of many of our fruits and nuts. We need bees in order to grow food, or at least some of it. Without bees, there will be no apples, pears, peaches, almonds, okra, alfalfa, beans, berries, broccoli,
The FDA’s regulations on GMOs are liquid at best, and the GMOs are killing off species in our agricultural ecosystem, as well as creating a potential of food shortages due to rising weed resistance and high pesticide use. The American public needs to be notified about what is happening, but most importantly, the FDA needs to create stronger legislative practices and regulations on GMOs and other agricultural practices to combat these growing issues. The FDA needs to be stricter on how they allow GMO’s to be produced in the U.S. agricultural framework due to their adverse effects on the environment. After showing what GMO’s are and a bit of their history I will then show the immediate effects of GMO’s on bees which are an important part of nature’s ecosystem, then I will show how GMO’s are affecting their surrounding environment, which potentially devastates land use for environmental conservation in the …show more content…
To illustrate, remember that recent article that came out about bees going on the endangered species list? Merrit Kennedy from NPR news in Wyoming addressed this issue in her article Bees Added To U.S. Endangered Species List For 1st Time. Seven species of bees are getting “smaller and smaller” (Kennedy). Kennedy acknowledges that these species of bees are dwindling because they “are impacted by a wide variety of threats, including habitat destruction because of urbanization or nonnative animals, the introduction of nonnative plant species, wildfires, nonnative predators and natural events such as hurricanes, tsunamis and drought”. Yet in her article, EPA Finally Admits What Has Been Killing Bees For Decades, from March Against Monsanto published in 2016, Tami Canal addressed specific insecticides killing bees. This frightening truth should scare you enough to take immediate action. GMOs have built in pesticides, and a special one, called neonicotinoids, which is an agricultural insecticide that resembles nicotine, has lethal effects on bees. This poses a massive problem for those who adore food and eating because bees are the main pollinators of many of our fruits and nuts. We need bees in order to grow food, or at least some of it. Without bees, there will be no apples, pears, peaches, almonds, okra, alfalfa, beans, berries, broccoli,