1. Whether or not Genetically
Modified Foods Should be Labeled

2. How they are Created
• Using biotechnology to change their genetic
material
• Viral carriers can be added to a food which will
inject the cells with their DNA and change the
food’s genetic material.
• Bacterium can infect cells with their DNA as
well.
• Adding a second copy of a gene the other way
around will silence the gene.

3. Reasons for Creating them
• Can introduce a desired gene or deactivate an
unwanted one.
• Increase shelf life
• Become resistant to pesticides or insecticides
• Increase crop nutrition yield
• Not time consuming
• Accurate
• Produce pesticides to enable growing in more
environments
• Results save money

4. Issues Against Creating them
• The effects of genetic modification can cause the death rate
of other organisms to rise.
• Genetically modified plants that produce their own pesticides
cause insects to become immune to them leaving companies
at a loss.
• Gene transfer can spread to other species causing a different
possibly negative effect.
• Can create new allergen
• There are unknown human health risks involved. Possibly bad
for the digestive tract
• More expensive to grow and engineer

5. Arguments Against Labeling them
• Very expensive
• It’s not harmful anyway.
• Products taste the same or better since they
last longer.
• No conclusive data on harmful effects

6. Arguments for Labeling them
• People have the right to know what’s been
done to their food.
• Studies on the effects of GM foods are taking
place now.
• Predicted to be possibly harmful based on
animal experimentation
• Against some religions

7. Conclusion
The production and solicitation to the public
of GM foods should be stopped until test results are
conclusive. If there are possibilities that GM foods
have a negative effect on the human digestive
tract, they should not be being sold. If studies show
that there are no negative effects on humans then
the money spent on a label is not necessary but, if
there are negative effects in certain conditions, that
information should be displayed on the packaging
of the food.

8. Bibliography
• "Genetically Modified Foods: Harmful or
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• "The Effects of Genetically Modified
Foods." Genetically Modified Foods. N.p., n.d.
Web. 10 Jan. 2013
• "Genetically Modified Foods -
Techniques." Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan.
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