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Debate: Genetically modified foods
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View (previous 50) (next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).- Argument: GM crops are made disease-resistant, which increases yields
- Argument: The use of GM crops increases local research
- Argument: The lower crop production costs of GM foods reduce prices
- Argument: GM crops generate greater wealth for farming communities
- Argument: Over-precaution with GM foods makes risk assessments difficult
- Argument: GM foods are important to supplying growing populations/demand
- Argument: GM crops can be fortified with vitamins and vaccines
- Argument: GM foods are essential to responding to global food shortages
- Argument: GM crops improve yields, lowering land-use; environmentally friendly
- Argument: There is no evidence that GM foods are unsafe
- Argument: Conventional foods have always involved genetic tampering
- Argument: GM food meets threat of growing demand on less land
- Argument: The anti-GMO principle that genetic tampering is bad is erroneous
- Argument: Foods with poisonous allergens can be modified to reduce risks
- Argument: There are many instances of GM foods proving dangerous
- Argument: GM foods are hazardously controlled by unaccountable corporations
- Argument: GM crops mix with native plants and reduce genetic diversity
- Argument: Corporate control over GM foods threatens food security in poor countries
- Argument: GMOs solve wrong problem; access, not shortages, is the problem
- Argument: Encouraging poor nations to develop is more helpful than GMOs
- Debate: Mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods
- Debate: Should GM food producers, not taxpayers, fund labeling?
- Debate: Voluntary labeling of genetically modified foods
- Debate: Patenting of genetically modified seeds and plants
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- Debate: Advances in science present a threat
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