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Debate Score:90
Arguments:69
Total Votes:95
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Should the use of GMOs be banned?

1.   Are GM foods safe?

   How are they tested? Are they sufficiently regulated?

2.  Are we tampering with nature?

Do biotech companies have the right to control  GMOs?

3.  Do GMOs harm the environment?

4.  Should we grow GM crop?

Will biotechnology lead to over production?

5.  Do we need GMOs to feed the world?

 GM crops represent “the needs and dreams of developing countries” [Kenyan scientists] and “the fears of developed countries” [Green Peace].

6) What does the future hold?

  Are GMOs “a force for humanity” or “a reckless experiment”?

Will biotechnology dominate the future?

 Can diffusion of GMOs really be stopped? Does it matter?

Yes!

Side Score: 44
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No!

Side Score: 46
2 points

i believe Gmos should be banned because to me its just gross that im eating a scientifically engineered chicken

Side: Yes!
cfhsaphg(98) Disputed
1 point

Without GMOs would we have enough food to eat? How would we sustain 7 billion in population with an exponential growth rate?

Side: No!
MPH3567(3) Disputed
1 point

This is not legitimate reason on why you think it should be banned, you need evidence, like for an example there are animals with damaged organs.

Side: No!
2 points

I believe GMOs should definitely be banned. If GMOs weren't bad for us, as so many companies want us to believe, why would they not be proud to package products as GMOs? Why would they be so sneaky about what they are selling to us for us to put in our family's bodies?

Side: Yes!
cfhsaphg(98) Disputed
1 point

Do you only eat organic? Be real!!!! You eat processed crap in class all the time!

Side: No!
Isaiah1021(3) Disputed
1 point

Most, if not, all of the foods you eat have been modified in some way. It's near impossible to eat purely organic foods all your life.

Side: No!
1 point

GMO causes harm to other organisms.Last year a laboratory study was published in Nature showing that pollen from B.t. corn caused high mortality rates in monarch butterfly caterpillars.Monarch caterpillars consume milkweed plants, not corn, but the fear is that if pollen from B.t. corn is blown by the wind onto milkweed plants in neighboring fields, the caterpillars could eat the pollen and perish

Side: Yes!
1 point

gmos should be banned because these gmos are significantly less healthy

Side: Yes!
samgarrell(3) Disputed
2 points

there is no prove that they are less healthy than regular food

Side: No!
BowmanDavis(5) Disputed
1 point

Then how would the 7 billion people and growing on this earth be fed. It takes much more time to grow non GMOd food and it is not pest resistant and does not have high yields

Side: No!
Fallyn(3) Disputed
1 point

Studies have found no true evidence that supports your claim. As far as we know, GMO foods give us the same health benefits as organically raised foods do.

Side: No!
cassidy5(3) Disputed
1 point

there is no proof that GMOs are harmful to people. Even if it was harmful, half the population would still continue to eat the stuff

Side: No!
1 point

I believe that the use of GMOs should be banned because the long term affects that GMOs could have on poeple's health has not yet been tested, so we do not know what kind of diseases and health risks their are to consuming GMOs regularly.

Side: Yes!
BowmanDavis(5) Disputed
2 points

If they affects are bad then why does Europe have a higher cancer rate but don't have GMOs? And there is no proven prof that they are worse for us than Organic foods

Side: No!
angel0309(3) Disputed
1 point

I think you're forgetting that there are many other causes of cancer that do NOT include GMOs. These causes include smoking, UV exposure, obesity, and drug and alcohol uses. The US also only has the 51st highest smoking rate in the world with many European countries above us, and Serbia having the highest in the world. Tyvm.

Side: Yes!
RachelTurbev(3) Disputed
1 point

The GENERA database lists over 36 examples of multi-year studies. In general, those results do not suggest any health hazards from feeding GMOs to livestock.

Side: No!
1 point

I think that GMOs should be banned because they are in too much of the food we eat. 80% of the food we eat today has some type of genetically modified organism in it.

Side: Yes!
1 point

GMOs SHOULD BE BANNED!!!!!!!! American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) states that GMOed foods are unhealthy, GMOed animals show organ failure, gastrointestinal and immune system disorders, accelerated aging, and infertility. It also leaves material that causes long-term damage. Also the toxic chemicals they inserted in a GM corn where found in the blood of a pregnant women.

Side: Yes!
cfhsaphg(98) Disputed
1 point

Is it better to die of starvation? Would we be able to feed all of the 350m plus in America without the usage of GMOs and commercial farming?

Side: No!
1 point

They should be banned, there are 23 million chickens killed each day not just because they are slaughtered but because they die of disease from being trapped in a little cage and going to the bathroom on each. we all think that we eat healthy when actually we are eating fake contaminated food brought to us by cruel farms.

Side: Yes!
fred3 Disputed
1 point

how do you think we will feed america without using this technology to produce food quickly like GMOs

Side: No!
1 point

I believe GMOs should definitely be banned. If GMOs weren't bad for us, as so many companies want us to believe, why would they not be proud to package products as GMOs? Why would they be so sneaky about what they are selling to us for us to put in our family's bodies?

Side: Yes!
1 point

I believe GMOs should be banned because if we keep eating modified meat we aren't eating the original meat that was produced 100 years ago. This ca cause diseases in humans which can cause death. GMOs show failure in animals organs.

Side: Yes!
1 point

Even though this question is a double standard question we are eating unsafe food and we don't even know it, and plus to all the people that think it's safe ask your self... if it's really safe why do they not tell us what we are eating. If the food was safe we would know what we were eating and Food.Inc would get their interview with PURDUE, TYSON and all those other top dog meat producers.

Side: Yes!
kwalters1(4) Disputed
1 point

They didn't want to do the interview with Foodinc. because they knew all the questions were going to be bias. You say it is dog meat and you will eat it later today. Foodinc. also didn't show exact information for some of the farms.

Side: No!
1 point

GMO's should be band because studies has shown, animals are found with organ damage, immune system disorders, accelerated aging, and infertility, according to the American Academy of Environmental Medicine.

Side: Yes!
1 point

The use of GMOs has not been tested for long periods of time so people do not know what this can cause in the long run. Although it is less time consuming and can feed more people it is unsanitary considering that the animals of food are not meant to be changed by humans but by nature.

Side: Yes!
1 point

If bioengineering food and animals weren't bad, major corporations wouldn't try so hard to hide it from consumers. People wouldn't be sued for simply speaking out against GMOed foods and animals if the biotech field wasn't so shady and corrupt.

Side: Yes!
1 point

I agree with you. If they weren't so bad for us they would tell you with up most confidence that these foods were GMOs.

Side: Yes!
1 point

yes! Most plants that are gmoed produce substances that are toxic to humans. Most of the plants that humans consume produce toxins at levels low enough that they do not produce any adverse health effects. There is concern that inserting an exotic gene into a plant could cause it to produce toxins at higher levels that could be dangerous to humans.

Side: Yes!
1 point

If food that has been GMOed were to be labeled, the market and profit that major corporations bring in would decrease exponentially. Said corporations would realize where consumers are headed (organic foods) and change the type of product being released onto the market. The reason GMOed foods are still being eaten is because no one knows what's been GMOed and what hasn't.

Side: Yes!
1 point

yes gmoes should be banned because a genetically modified plant could theoretically have lower nutritional quality than its traditional counterpart by making nutrients unavailable or indigestible to humans. we are not going to get all of the nutrition we need or even the right nutrition if we eat false food.

Side: Yes!
1 point

Some states in Brazil have banned GM crops entirely, and the Brazilian Institute for the Defense of Consumers, in collaboration with Greenpeace, has filed suit to prevent the importation of GM crops. Brazilian farmers, however, have resorted to smuggling GM soybean seeds into the country because they fear economic harm if they are unable to compete in the global marketplace with other grain-exporting countries. This shows that we need to ban GMO and have stricter rules on food regulation. As more and more countries ban GMO importation, we will start to loose money cause we can't export foods to these countries.

Side: Yes!
1 point

I believe that we are tampering with nature because the GMOed products are changing genetics in our turkeys, produce such as bananas and apples, and poultry. Not only that but it is changing our diets and the farming cultural landscape, meaning the way Farms were in the early 1900's they are no longer the same.

Side: Yes!
1 point

GMO products also require much more pesticides and insecticides than an organic crop. You are increasing the amounts of toxins and chemicals in your body immensely. If you wouldn't drink from a bottle of herbicide -which is in fact highly toxic- why would you want enormous amounts of it in your food supply? The increased amounts of these toxins can only lead to significant health problems for the future generations.

Side: Yes!
1 point

GMOs should be banned due to many reasons! The over use of antibiotics is bad according to many expert pharmaceutic doctors because it will cause bacteria within our foods that is resistant to this medicine. This means that it will cause a what scientists call a "Super Bug", which is a super resistant bacteria resistant to antibiotics and can cause major sickness with little help to stop it due to its drug resistance. Many medical scientists say these "super bugs" could cause an epidemic.

Side: Yes!
0 points

I'm not completely against GMOed foods, but I think that they should be tested more than they have been. The long term affects of eating GMOs haven't been observed because they are a new concept.

Side: Yes!
0 points

GMOs have no genetic diversity. In the same way that a pure-bred dog (which lacks in genetic diversity) has many more health problems than a good old mutt (containing high genetic diversity). GMO foods are much more susceptible to diseases and issues than an organic, unmodified food.

Side: Yes!
3 points

I dont think they should ban them but they should label them so people know what they are eating.

Side: No!
cfhsaphg(98) Disputed
1 point

Would you eat them if they were labeled? If we labeled them all, we would not have enough food to eat that was classified as organic. Do you eat organic now?

Side: Yes!
3 points

What evidence do we have that it hurts us more than regular food? The generation that started with the GMO's are still alive and nothing has been proven that it hurts more than regular food. Don't say it makes us more prone to diseases because we have had the discussion in class where some European countries have higher rate of cancer than us.

Side: No!
2 points

I dont think they should ban them but they should label them so people know what they are eating.

Side: No!
Haleigh00(3) Disputed
1 point

Some people don't even know what GM food is, none the less what is in it. Studies show that there has been organ failure, in pigs that were GM. Do you want to eat something that can cause long term damage? Since GM food is "new", how can we prove that it doesn't have a negative effect on people?

Side: Yes!
2 points

GMO's should not be banned because if it weren't for them we wouldn't be able to feed everyone. Many people people think GMO's cause cancer but there are no proven facts it does. Europe banned GMO's and they have the 3 top countries with cancer patients. Small family farms can't feed 300 million people so we need the huge factories using GMO's to feed us.

Side: No!
ramyalawar(3) Disputed
1 point

What you just said is utter bull! If we were to tear down those giant corporations and have multiple farmers supplying every city of America due to ratio of population to farmers, we could have an all organic food country. And the only reason why those "top 3 countries" have cancer is not due to food, it is due to multiple other factors usually from over use of medications (from population research sources)

Side: Yes!
2 points

GMO helps farmers and the economy. Crop losses from insect pests can be staggering, resulting in devastating financial loss for farmers and starvation in developing countries. Consumers do not wish to eat food that has been treated with pesticides because of potential health hazards, and run-off of agricultural wastes from excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers can poison the water supply and cause harm to the environment. Growing GM foods such as B.t. corn can help eliminate the application of chemical pesticides and reduce the cost of bringing a crop to mark.

Side: No!
2 points

Genetically modified crops were introduced for animal feed about 18 years ago. Over a trillion genetically modified meals have been fed to animals. If this type of feed was producing unusual problems among livestock, then farmers would have noticed a long time ago. The system would not be productive because there would be mostly dead or sick livestock if the claims were true.

Side: No!
ramyalawar(3) Disputed
1 point

"The system would not be productive because there would be mostly dead or sick livestock if the claims were true.", have you seriously not been paying attention to any of the videos we have watched throughout this unit? there are unsanitary conditions and you see multiple animals drop dead due to disease or bacteria! Farmers have been noticing this for a while actually! As you saw in food inc., farmers are practically economic slaves to these corporations. Literally everything you said was proven wrong...

Side: Yes!
2 points

GMO's should not be banned because there are some benefits that are currently helping humans today such as, pesticide reductions tend to be greater for crops engineered to be resistant to insecticides than others that are not according to the Department of Agricultural Economics.

Side: No!
2 points

there is nothing that says GMOs hurt people more then organic food does so why wouldn't we just use GMOed foods because their way better from a production standpoint.

Side: No!
1 point

if they do not get banned, then they MUST label gmos so people know which foods are those retarded gross gmos

Side: No!
fred3 Disputed
3 points

these GMOs aren't gross in fact you will probably eat it for lunch today. just because we saw the video doesn't mean it was correct, it was bais.

Side: Yes!
Kareem1(3) Disputed
1 point

The fact that we are going to eat it today dose not mean that we like it, people eat this because they have no other choice.You cant say that it is safe or not "gross" if it hasn't been tested for long periods of time.

Side: No!
channeller(3) Disputed
1 point

The reason we're probably consuming these kind of foods is because it's not labelled. Consumers don't know the difference. Major corporations are shady and sly.

Side: No!
kwalters1(4) Disputed
3 points

How are we going to say that they should be banned? If we switch to all organic we will not have enough food for everybody in the world. You say that they are gross and everything, but you still end up eating them everyday.

Side: No!
cfhsaphg(98) Disputed
1 point

We have lived for thousands of years without the use of GMOs. Why do we feel that they are a necessity today!?! Should we not take into consideration the long term use of chemicals and antibiotics within our food supply?

Side: Yes!
cassidy5(3) Disputed
1 point

We would still eat the food that was genetically modified because it is part of our lifestyle. 7 billion people aren't going to change the way they eat.

Side: Yes!
austin734(4) Disputed
1 point

we would put in big letters GMOED on the front of the package and even if they didnt change we would be aware of what were eating

Side: No!
1 point

The most comprehensive study of GMOs and food that was ever conducted was done by researchers from the University of California-Davis Department of Animal Science. The data represented over 100 billion animals. They found that genetically modified feed is safe and nutritionally equivalent of non-GMO feed.

Side: No!
cfhsaphg(98) Disputed
1 point

With GMOs being a fairly "new" concept, how can you prove that the effects are not detrimental to the Earth or to animal and human consumption? You can find adequate reports on both sides.

Side: Yes!
angel0309(3) Disputed
1 point

But did they monitor them over a long period of time (about 20-30 years) to see how the GMO food affected them?

Side: Yes!
1 point

Without GMOs we might not be able to supply the food demanded by America's steadily growing population. GMOs give more food for a lesser price than organic foods.

Side: No!
samispencer(2) Disputed
2 points

They should be banned because it can cause sickness to all people if they keep producing GMOed animals. In different studies they show organ failure in animals. Americans are fat because of this, the organic food is much more expensive because they are competing against this food. People rather by this food because its cheap. Because they are buying this the big corporations keep getting money to continue GMOing.

Side: Yes!
Haleigh00(3) Disputed
2 points

Though if bigger companies switched over to the organic way of life, they can come up with a way to meet the demand. With agricultural industrialization comes a faster way of living, we can go without the chemicals and still meet the demand. We just have to find a way, instead of checking the population with disease

Side: Yes!
Kareem1(3) Disputed
1 point

That is true but this has not been tested for long periods of time so we don't know the long term affects

Side: Yes!
1 point

Although GMOs are "new", there have been GMOs that can fix hunger. We have created crops that can resist droughts and yield more product. There has also been no proof that GMOs are linked to cancer.

Side: No!
1 point

I only think GMO's should be labled so people can know if they are eating them or not. Everyone will probably eat GMO's today so it doesn't matter. We wouldn't be able to feed everyone without them.

Side: No!
1 point

I agree that they should be labeled so if you don't want them you don't have to eat them.

Side: Yes!
1 point

If you were to take out GMO's you would lose a lot of farm land because thats all some people grow because the origial crop has been lost and it would cause a lot of jobs to be lost

Side: No!