Although GMOs aren’t detrimental to the health of people or detrimental to the environment, GMOs in some way can cause problems among society. When genetically modifying organisms it is mostly about increase the percentage of individuals with desired traits. This relates to the idea of monoculture, where one specific plant is grown in a specific area because society depends on it. GMOs revolves around the idea of producing crops that have all the same desired and beneficial traits. As history shows lack of genetic diversity can destroy both the crop and society if the society greatly depended on this crop. In the article Endangered animals can be identified by rate of genetic diversity loss “"Genetic diversity is a key component to the long-term
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When this does occur the pathogen will easily spread to other crops and destroy the plantation. This is significant because if the plantation for a crop a ruin, society needs to find a new food source and this will be especially difficult if the society depended on that specific crop. One example of how lack of genetic diversity can ruin a civilization if the Great Famine of 1845. In the article Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849), “The famine was due to the appearance of "the Blight" (also known as phytophthora)—the potato fungus that almost instantly destroyed the primary food source for the majority of the island's population. The immediate after-effects of the famine continued until 1851. Much is unrecorded, and various estimates suggest that between five hundred thousand and more than 1 million people died in the years 1846 to 1849 as a result of hunger or disease” (encyclopedia). Because of the lack of genetic diversity, socially the people of Ireland suffered greatly because they had no other source of food, and the lack of diversity made all their potato crop vulnerable to getting attacked by
When this does occur the pathogen will easily spread to other crops and destroy the plantation. This is significant because if the plantation for a crop a ruin, society needs to find a new food source and this will be especially difficult if the society depended on that specific crop. One example of how lack of genetic diversity can ruin a civilization if the Great Famine of 1845. In the article Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849), “The famine was due to the appearance of "the Blight" (also known as phytophthora)—the potato fungus that almost instantly destroyed the primary food source for the majority of the island's population. The immediate after-effects of the famine continued until 1851. Much is unrecorded, and various estimates suggest that between five hundred thousand and more than 1 million people died in the years 1846 to 1849 as a result of hunger or disease” (encyclopedia). Because of the lack of genetic diversity, socially the people of Ireland suffered greatly because they had no other source of food, and the lack of diversity made all their potato crop vulnerable to getting attacked by