Before watching this film I had a very limited knowledge of genetically modified foods and there seemed to be a wide spread negative connotation that went along with them. I now no longer feel that I have a problem with GMO’s or the business behind them. I understand why company’s would be given the right to patent a certain type of seed they developed. Patents do not last forever so in the future the product will have to be distributed freely. However, in the early stages of development a company needs to make money in order to further their research. Money is the key to all scientific research. My argument as to why I don’t believe foods should be labeled as GMO is similar. Many Americans, like me, have this preconceived notion that anything genetically modified is bad. This means that if food was forced to have a label there would be a serious decrease in profits for those company’s, reducing their research funds. To this day it has not been proven that there is any ill effect from genetically modified foods. If there were any problems the products would be ripped from the shelves and these companies would be out of business. There are plenty of ingredients in many things we eat that have been tested even less then GMO’s but people don’t seem to have nearly the same resistance to those items. I feel that if this is an issue that truly worries someone they could easily look up these companies and their products online and avoid them while shopping.
Christoph, Inken. "Knowledge, attitudes towards and acceptability of genetic modification in Germany." Appetite 51(2008): 58-68.
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