Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods have been on the public eye for quite some time now and most people don’t get the big fuss, mainly because there is information coming both for and against GMO foods. The truth is, the debate has gone so far that most people can’t keep up with what is real and what isn’t. As such, we are going to provide you with some real interesting facts about GMO Foods.
1. GMO’s Are Safe
Most people consider GMO’s completely unsafe, and consider them as a possible cause for a few different varieties of problems with public health. According to the most influential agencies that study food supplies and food impacts on health have considered GMO’s safe for human consumption – among these agencies we can find, for example, the World Health Organization as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture. As a matter of fact, these agencies found no negative impacts on health caused by GMO’s.
2. They Keep Food Affordable
The human population has grown immensely in the past few decades and as a result it is extremely hard to feed everyone in the world. Our organic food production could simply not keep up with the rise of population and as such food would completely be overpriced and our economy would be thrown down by this. With the help of GMO’s, food is easier to produce in a large scale, which allows the prices of food to continue low while we have food for everyone.
3. Protect the Environment
Food produced with GM technology doesn’t require a lot of water, a lot of chemicals and a lot of pesticides. Besides being better for our health, this also protects the environment from potential damage such as greenhouse gas emission and soil erosion.
4. GMO Foods Can Destroy World Hunger
If allowed to properly grow, GMO foods can be so popular and so widespread that ideally, it is possible to imagine a world without hunger thanks to GMO’s. Right now, at least one eight of the world’s population does not have what to eat due to the lack of food available. If we take in to account that the world’s population is an astonishing 7 billion people that is a lot of people without food on their table.
5. GMO’s Are Not New
While the theme is still hot, and might still be for a lot of time; GMO’s aren’t new at all. The technology to genetically modify food has been around for at least 20 years already, which means that it is pretty widespread. In fact, around 70% to 80% of the food eaten in the United States of America already contains ingredients that were genetically modified in labs.