For/Against GMOs

• List points for GMOs:

  • Improve plant quality e.g. seedless grapes
  • Increase crop yield
  • Outcompete competitors through resistance genes
  • Food is labelled, so you can choose to eat GMOs
  • Can be resistant to herbicides -> so outcompete pests
• List points against GMOs:

  • Creates antibiotic resistant mmicrobes
  • Altered genes create toxic allergenic substances in the plant
  • GMOs can be invasive pests outcompeting native plants
  • Can pass genes to weeds & pests
  • Companies hold patents from GMOSs & some countries cant afford them