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GMO Approval
In my opinion I think that GMOs should be approved because in the article “Genetically modified salmon: food or ‘frankenfish’?” It had stated various opinions on whether or not the GMOs should be approved and what I had learned was that the agency had to study all of AquaBounty’s data in order to prove that it was safe and accurate. THe fast growing fish not only would be on market shelves within two years but it was safe for human consumption. The FDA had approved the GMOs but people like Lisa Archer of the environmental advocacy group Friends of the Earth and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski were still skeptical on how it would affect the environment and if it still wasn’t safe and accurate. AquaBounty’s Stotish was hopeful that with “time and education and information may allow many of these folks to change their minds”. The FDA said the salmon will be allowed to be raised with the condition that they were only raised “in land-based, contained in hatchery tanks at two facilities in Canada and Panama” Other US facilities could not breed these GMOs elsewhere, and if they did they wouldn’t be used for human consumption. In the article “Carrots with character” it had stated how the carrots we eat today were genetically modified to be a “vitamin A powerhouse”. “Over two decades ago, scientists in the ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit at Madison, Wisconsin, began a quest to breed carrots packed with beta-carotene--an orange pigment used by the body to create vitamin A. Thanks largely to this ARS work, today's carrots provide consumers with 75 percent more beta-carotene than those available 25 years ago.” Researchers had not only created better orange pigmented carrots but they had also created rainbow carrots all with different protective uses for the human body. “Red carrots derive their color mainly from lycopene, a type of carotene believed to guard against heart disease and some cancers. Yellow carrots accumulate xanthophylls, pigments similar to beta-carotene that support good eye health. Purple carrots possess an entirely different class of pigment anthocyanins which act as powerful antioxidants.”
So if people eat genetically modified carrots everyday why can’t they eat genetically modified salmon when it was proved to be safe for human consumption not only is it healthy but they grow faster.
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