Topic Proposal for Major Assignment 2

Do GMOs have an adverse effect on human health and the ecosystem?

As the world food market gains traction worldwide, each country is looking for ways to increase the production of their crop and make it better for the consumer. With advances in the bio sciences, some crops are being considered as genetically modified organisms (GMO). GMOs improve the quality of the product by splicing the genetic information of a specific organism with the crop itself. This is done to improve taste, nutrition, and defense against pests. Some people believe that introducing new information to a species's genome might accidentally create negative results that will harm people consuming the crop. This topic is important because the US government does not have regulation to label GMO food product. If GMOs have a measurable negative effect on humans, then consumers are put at risk of not knowing what they are putting in their bodies. In addition, there is a vested interest in improving the quality of crops by planting an already pest resistant seed into the ground and not reapply several coats of pesticide on the surface of the crop. Pesticide residue can harm a person's health if it is not washed off, and removing pesticides entirely will make it cheaper to grow crops.

Here are my four sources I will use for this paper:
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43195/9241593059_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128115190000121

https://benthamopen.com/contents/pdf/TONUTRAJ/TONUTRAJ-4-3.pdf

https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0278691517304842?token=4B6CE62CE45A994338A2D5A5AD49A7AA31F5404D560E1271CAE9120B1CF10E2726822CE50D569ABDBED51BB81086EB44


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