MATERIAL TO LEARN AND MAKE ESSAYS.
FOOD AND HEALTH
BIOTECH FOOD
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Biotech food help feed the world Most people in the USA do not realized that
*genetic engineering can help they generally eat biotech food
adress the urgent problems of food *a lot of junk food, such as pizza or ice cream
shortage and hunger contains ingredients from engineered soybeans,
*it can increase crop fields, offer canola or corn
crop varieties that resist pests and
disease
*it provide ways to grow crops
Biotech food are safer for humans Biotech food is harmful for the environment
*hundreds of people die each year *some environmental scientist worry because
from peanut allergies with genetically engineered crops are being develop
genetically engineered foods that too quckly and released one millions acres of
we minimalized risks by doing farmland before they have been adequately
rigorous testing tasted for their ecological impact
*some critics of genetic
engineering argue that the solution
to hunger and malnutrition lies in
redistributing existing food suplies
Scientist produce by transferring Genetically engineered are being rushed to the
genes between species transgenic market before their effects are understood
products *anxiety has been fueled by reports of
*farmers spart herbicides to kill tachoshells contaminated with genetically
weeds and papaya have been engineered corn not approved for human
genetically engineered to resist consumption
diseases
*scientist have also created
transgenic animals, such as
Atlantic salmon
VEGETARIANISM
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People who are vegetarian have a healthy life The production of meat destroy the
*studies show that vegetarians are less likely environment
than meat eaters to suffer from type 2 *there is a wastefull land and energy-
diabetes, heart diseases, cancer, etc hungry system of farming that
*a vegetarian diet can easily provide enough devastates forest, pollutes the air and
protein, iron and other nutrients for any stage water ways
of life *livestock production is responsable
for 20% of Amazon deforestation in
Latin America
This type of diet can help the environment Chickens, cows, sheeps and pigs
*it leaves a ligther carbon footprint need a vaste amount of food and
*it is significantly responsable for climate water
change
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