Persuasive Essay On Gmo Foods

In the year 2050, our world's population is expected to increase by a total of 35% of what our population is currently. The greatest challenge that our generation faces today it's not a job or economic crisis, Homeland Security, or the war on terrorism. The greatest challenge that our generation faces is the ability to develop and reinvent new techniques in agriculture to produce food for our world and this is why that ability to genetically modify our crops is so desperately needed. The population is expected to expand to over 10 billion people by the time our generation has begun to reproduce. A way that we as society can produce more with the highly decreasing amount of agricultural land due to manufacturing, infrastructure and population growth is to use our technology and adapt to genetically modified crops for the purpose of higher yields. Those who oppose the use of genetically modified organisms in agriculture do have some credibility when making their case. We have not had the time to research the effect that genetically modified crops have on humans or our land. As someone who was raised from birth on a family farm, it is important for our farm to produce as high of yields as we can so …show more content…
For instance, Juliana Woitaschek reports that, “Nearly a third of Germans believe that capitalism is the cause of poverty and hunger and a majority think true democracy is not possible under that economic system, according to a survey published on Tuesday by the Emnid polling institute for Berlin's Free University.” No form of government or individual is to blame for poverty or hunger. The solution is right in front of our very eyes. It’s the ability to use engineered methods in agriculture to provide a high content of a specific nutrient that is lacking in the diet of a local population group by using genetically modified