Arguments pro ogms en anglais
Indeed some GM carrots produce an enzyme that cures some diseases, some bananas can be used for vaccines, the rice is full of A vitamin and can cure A vitamin deficiency. Moreover, cells from GMOs can be used into vaccines for animals. * No study shows that GMOs are harmful. Actually, it pollutes less the land and rivers than many pesticides. It even reduces the greenhouse gas emission and the global warming. * GMOs ask for less water than traditional cultures. And this is a headway given that water is the blue gold of nowadays and that we might be lacking water soon. * GMOs are resistant to pesticides * Bio-fortification. GMO have higher levels of some components (A vitamin) by inserting genes. * Increase the life expectancy of fruits and vegetables > Solution against starvation. * Challenge of environment/ feeding/expectances of society * The commercial culture has been banned in France since 2008, and the experimental culture has decreased also. There are no more open-fields trials, and most of the experiments are relocated in India or in the United-States, where GMOs are welcomed and daily consumed without any consequences. * 2050 there will be more than 9 billions inhabitants on Earth. 1 billion is starving.
CONCLUSION: we need GMOs to survive and feed the whole population. But States have to organize in order to prevent risks. USA, Argentina or Brazil use a lot of GMOs, how can France control its imports knowing that we need these imports of food.
If we abandon the GMO culture, food prices will rise and starvation also.