“You Are What You Eat,” “It’s our right to know what’s in our food. Pledge to choose non-GMO” (Non-GMO Project). Theses words are written boldly on an advertisement for the Non-GMO Project. I would agree with two of the three statements on this advertisement, one, “you are what you eat” and two, “it’s our right to know what’s in our food.” There is nothing wrong with being an advocate for good health practices, nor transparency. However, I feel that the Non-GMO Project left out a whole population with the last statement: “pledge to choose non-GMO.” This statement leaves no room for the percentage of the world that does not possess the financial means, to choose non-GMO. This paper will show that the Non-GMO Project alienates, those who are impoverished and in dire straits.
With regard to GMOs, let us first start by defining the acronym GMO, which stands for genetically modified organisms. This is a process that involves plants or animals that were produced through the production of gene splicing; which is also referred to as genetic engineering, or …show more content…
This advertisement does not take into account the percentage of the population that is impoverished and those in dire straits. For countries who are impoverished, food security and nutrition should be the upmost concern. And for the percentage of citizens who fall into the dire straits category, those are people who are facing hunger and the risk of malnutrition. With these conditions the reduction of malnutrition and breaking the intergenerational cycle of hunger is what should be prevalent. There are places in the world be it a city, state, or country where they are not even meeting their own food and nutritional needs of their citizens. The idea of having a discourse about non-GMOs when the issues of hunger and malnutrition are rampant. Speaks from a voice of privilege and sounds and feels
With regard to GMOs, let us first start by defining the acronym GMO, which stands for genetically modified organisms. This is a process that involves plants or animals that were produced through the production of gene splicing; which is also referred to as genetic engineering, or …show more content…
This advertisement does not take into account the percentage of the population that is impoverished and those in dire straits. For countries who are impoverished, food security and nutrition should be the upmost concern. And for the percentage of citizens who fall into the dire straits category, those are people who are facing hunger and the risk of malnutrition. With these conditions the reduction of malnutrition and breaking the intergenerational cycle of hunger is what should be prevalent. There are places in the world be it a city, state, or country where they are not even meeting their own food and nutritional needs of their citizens. The idea of having a discourse about non-GMOs when the issues of hunger and malnutrition are rampant. Speaks from a voice of privilege and sounds and feels