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Tyler Avant
Mrs. Crist
English IV
4/5/16
Genetically Modified Organisms
GMOs can have long and short term impacts on the body. Some of these can be very
dangerous and harmful. GMOs are living organisms whose genetic material has been modified in
a lab (GMO Facts). GMOs are considered to not be safe and a study was done by the and found
that 60 countries did not consider GMOs as safe (GMO Facts). Some common examples of not
safe GMOs are Corn, Soy, Milk, Squash and Canola oil. Genetically Modified Organisms are
dangerous because they can cause organ damage, accelerated aging, and infertility.
Organ damage can cause serious issues in your body. Having organ damage can shut
down parts of the body. The organs that are most damaged from GMOs are the liver and the
kidney. The liver and the the kidneys are damaged by the amount of hormone growth that are in
these foods. The abnormal amounts of these substances can cause high blood sugar and raised
fatty substances (Smith). The GMO substances slowly infect your insides if you consume a lot of
them.
GMOs can cause accelerated aging and that is very dangerous for the human body. What
this means is when you start to eat GMOs the bodys hormones have to work a lot faster and that
causes you to age faster because of how hard the body has to work. Accelerated aging is one of
the biggest side effects of GMOs and it can basically destroy the body with all of the different
toxins like that are in GMOs, such as pesticides and Bt toxins (Smith). No one can predict the
amount of damage that they do to the body since human trials have never been done. Many tests

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have been done on animals to conclude that GMOs are dangerous and that they can harm you in
a lot of ways, but accelerated aging has to be one of the most scary things that can happen.
Many people are unaware of the fertility problems caused by GMOs. For example, in
One of the few long-terms studies (there are not many long-term studies done on GMO foods)
showed that mice fed GMO corn over a period of 20 weeks had greatly impaired fertility
compared to the mice fed non-GMO corn. In addition the offspring of the GMO mice also
suffered from lower fertility rates (Rodriguez). Women who consume a lot of GMOs are less
likely to get pregnant, and it will continue to be a challenge to get pregnant until they change
their diet. If you are pregnant and you consume a large amount of GMOs you could potentially
lose your baby due to the toxins in the foods. GMO crops have a pesticide in the foods that are
used to kill off insects, and as humans consume them, the pesticides get consumed as well and
can cause harm to the body. Jeffrey Smith did a study to prove how bad GMOs are and the study
found that men were 40-50% less fertile (Rodriguez) when they consume the GMOs.
It is clear that GMOs are highly dangerous to the body. GMOs cause a number of
problems and are not safe. The types of chemicals used to grow GMOs are deadly to a human
body and can shut organs and cause you to be hospitalized. GMOs are rarely ever labeled as
GMOs, so people hardly ever know if a food is a GMO and that is a scary thing to think about
and the growers are not legally obliged to label their product (GMO Facts). The GMOs are
sprayed with pesticide insect killer to keep the bugs off when they touch the crop and humans
consume those chemicals which lead to all of the problems. It is a very scary thing to think about
when you have to worry about what type of foods that are not GMOs and the ones that are.

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Works Cited
"Doctors Warn - Institute for Responsible Technology." Institute for Responsible Technology.
Jeffrey Smith. Web. 14 Apr. 2016
"GMO Facts." The NonGMO Project RSS. Web. 14 Apr. 2016.
"Health Risks - Institute for Responsible Technology." Institute for Responsible Technology.
Jeffrey Smith. Web. 14 Apr. 2016.

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"Research Indicates That GMO Could Be a Cause of Infertility." Natural Fertility Infocom.
Hethir Rodriguez C.H., C.M.T. Web. 14 Apr. 2016.