Genetically modified food/ crops hurt animals: "In 1990's rats were forced to eat gmos because they refused to eat it, the rat's then got stomach lesions, two weeks later seven of the forty rat's died"(Food & Water Watch 1). ... Farmers are now creating roundup ready seeds, which they are genetically engineered to be immune to herbicide which is making these crops glyphosate (Union of Concerned Scientists 1). Immune plants have caused the problem, farmers have to use stronger herbicide, which is bad for the environment. Glyphosate a chemical that is put in gmo's t...

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The other benefits of GMO are: improvement of the taste and nutrition, immunity to antibiotics, cultivation of rare and difficult to cultivate kinds of plants, limitation of the preservatives and quality improvement ingredients and the modification of the smell, color and taste of the agricultural plants. ... In fact, juicy and shiny tomato may be a few weeks old and have very little nutrition. ...

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