Name: Scott Leung
Use this GMO SQWORL of websites, VIDEOS, (& article from yesterday) to
research the benefits and concerns of GMOs and include quoted citations with
hyperlinked resources at the end in (parentheses):
Citations for
Benefits:
May be more nutritious For example, engineers are
able to create rice that has
(better for your health) vitamin A and iron. The
modified rice is more
nutritious (Should the U.S.
Support...).
Make farmers more They make farmers more
productive productive and reduce the
need for chemicals to
(Keep insects away)
control bugs, for example
(Issue Overview: GMOs and
engineered food).
Citations for
Concerns:
May cause allergies BT toxin, designed to kill pests
that eat crops, caused allergies and
(have allergens) other responses (Genetically
Modified Foods).
The insect-repellant To paraphrase Bill Nye,
chemical on the GMO can Some GMOs with a harmful
spread causing other chemical has pollen and
insects and animals later on could spread to somewhere
to decrease population. else. If it happens,
butterflies can get it
causing them to die and
then the bats will die too.
From that, there will be
more mosquitos and will
cause more humans to die.
 It helps feed The United Nations
undernourished people in estimates that the world
the world. population will grow from 6
billion to 9 billion by 2050.
Some say we need to use
new biotechnology to
produce enough food for
poor countries (Should the
U.S. Support the
Development of More
Biotechnology or
Genetically Modified Food?)
Keep away problems that Paraphrasing from Bill Nye,
the food (mainly veggies humans have engineered a
and fruits) are facing genetically modified papaya
that makes it have less ring
viruses.
Name of Findings:
Unknown ingredients in It allows food
GMOs. manufacturers to disclose
the presence of GMOs in
(Most of them arent
text on the package, or
labeled)
print a code that when
scanned with a smartphone
provides the information
(Issue Overview: GMOs and
engineered food).
GMO gets infected more Farmed salmon are more
than wild caught organisms. likely to get infected with
lethal fish virus, including
infectious salmon anemia
virus (ISA), salmon
alphaviruses, and piscine
reovirus, than wild salmon
(PERIOD 5 Banned GMOs in
Other Countries)
Benefit or
GMO: What did you find out? What makes it a Concern?
GMO? Explain.
Soy People have been genetically modifying them since 1996. 90% of Benefit: Allows farmers
soybeans in the market are genetically modified to resist to use more RoundUp to
RoundUp, a type of herbicide. kill weeds and has
protection against pests.

Concern: It is loaded
with more chemicals and
there are food
manufacturers not
labeling soy.

Rice The production of GM rice has a small scale. There are many types Benefit: Resist
of GM rice, one of the GM rice is golden. herbicides, diseases, and
pests; increases yield,
improves drought and
salinity tolerance, and
enhancing nitrogen use
efficiency.

Concern: Farmers arent

using it even if there
arent a lot of them here
and approved in U.S.A.

Cotton Half of the cotton grown in the world are genetically modified. GM Benefit: It makes it
cotton are banned in China and India because it considers higher easier for farmers to
risk for personal health. It was blamed in India for farming issues. make vegetable oil and
margarine; handles
pesticide.

Concern: The GM cotton

contains a toxin called
gossypol making the
cotton along with the oil
inedible.