atribecalledgabi;9511113 said:
Ima test this out right quick on yall..
Ladies how y'all feel? Brothers yall alrite? Lemme see how y'all groove to this...
We are here to discuss GMOs and their place in solving hunger crises. Now my opponent would have you believe that this is a necessary step...desperate times call for desperate measures. But brothers and sisters, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Introducing an all encompassing "solution" such as GMOs to dire situations like Syria and the Sudan sounds good in the moment. "But no one has died from it" they say. "A lot of what we eat is already full of chemicals," says my opponent. But desperation breeds irrationality. It causes people to become shortsighted and settle for instant gratification, future be damned! Because we need to fix it now!
But brothers and sisters, the future matters. To illustrate my point, I ask that you take a walk down memory lane with me to the year 1993. Violent crime was at an all time high, gang violence and drug abuse ravaged the inner cities...it was a terrible time. The people wanted, no NEEDED a change. In came the 1994 crime bill to "fix" that problem. It sounded great in the moment. But what were the lasting effects? Mass incarceration for black people, high unemployment, etc. which we are still trying to recover from. Is that a risk we should be willing to take with already disadvantaged people? Over 20 years later we still side eye Hillary Clinton for the destruction she, I'm sure with the best of intentions, caused the black community.
Brothers and sisters, the truth of the matter is that many of the long term effects are unknown. We simply do not know what damage we could be causing these regions. Introducing these unknowns to entire populations of people is not only unsafe, it is irresponsible and unethical.
You're right in your sayin' that the long term effects are not yet known to be negligible. Damn right. But that's potential pain and starvation is killin' many millions of people right now.
Agriculture hasn't been a staple of civilisation for a very long time. Even removin' the argument for the poor, it's only a matter of time before most of the food we eat is entirely GM. How much of the food you consume is 'natural'?
We allow science into our bodies without even thinkin' in many other instances. Pills, booze, bottled water. If its good enough for us, who can afford to eat more natural foods, why shouldn't GM foods be good enough for the poor who can't?
