STRAWBERRY AWARENESS
What Are GMOs?
A GMO is an organism that has been genetically engineered. What this means is that a specific part of another creature's DNA controlling a certain trait is put into another organism to make it express that desired trait. Keep in mind that the idea is good in theory. GMO's are not harmful in themselves. It's simply that the secondary effects can be not what you expect. This has been done for many years, especially in foods. For example, let's say you don't want your strawberries to freeze. Scientists have taken a piece of DNA from peanuts and spliced it into strawberries. The trait expressed is a resistance to freezing temperatures! However, a major problem with GMO's is that sometimes, the implanted gene gives you more than you bargained for. Continuing the strawberry example, the strawberry may not freeze, but now you have people who are allergic to peanuts dying from the GM strawberries! Thus, GMO's have their positives, but also dangerous negatives. Awareness of GMO's is crucial to the health of our society.
So, What Do We Do?
Our ultimate goal is to raise awareness of the issues involved with Genetically Modified Organisms, including both plants and animals alike. We plan to do this by spreading the message of what's REALLY in your GM food and how it could potentially affect YOU.
How Does This Effect You?
You may be thinking, like many people do, how does this effect me? I'm still alive, why should I be worrying? Because its getting worse. GMOs are changing, evolving, getting further on the cusp of a moral dilemma. Scientists are getting riskier in their attempts at making the next top selling product. This not being bad enough, there are more issues related to GMOs such as secondary effects and more specific issues like the lack of labeling. These big companies producing these products refuse to label their GMOs, making them possibly dangerous to those who have a health issue relating to the integrated DNA. If the FDA and big name companies are positive that these GMOs are safe then why do they refuse to label them?
Just think about what you eat, what may be in it. Become concerned, become active in your search for safe food. Because all of the dangers that everyone thinks don't exist, they are very real.
Just think about what you eat, what may be in it. Become concerned, become active in your search for safe food. Because all of the dangers that everyone thinks don't exist, they are very real.