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Summary:

In Andrea Donsky's article "What's so bad about GMO's? Top ten reasons to avoid them", she expresses to her readers that they are most likely consuming food which are GMO based without knowing, due to the lack of labeling by companies. She then lists off and explains the effects of these harmful GMO’s on the human body.

Analysis:

The purpose of this article is to inform people about genetically modified organisms and their effects. By informing more people about this issue, Donsky is able to thoroughly inform her readers, who may not even be aware of this situation, and allow them to take some sort of action. One important claim she makes about the lack of labeling food is that " [the attempt of] federal regulations on labeling foods that contain GMO's, none have passed" which allows for food companies to not have to legal inform their consumers of what they’re actually eating, and wont risk the fear of losing clients. But the biggest risk of these companies not telling their customers by not labeling the food, is that the GMO’s may badly impacts the health of individuals and cause a risk of people getting very sick and they wouldn’t even be aware of it happening. She exclaims the fact that GMO’s have only been in our system since the mid 90’s and people don’t know the true harm of these GMO’s on our bodies since they haven’t been out long enough to do thorough testing. This leaves the consumers to have no knowledge and no real proof of what these GMO can cause and what the effect on their bodies can actually be. Some known negative impacts they have include "pesticides...cancer...environmental...super weeds...patent issues..." but it doesn’t disregard the fact that there could always be more that have not been discovered yet. By choosing all the negative impacts and effects that GMO’s have, Donsky can argue for her readers to not consume the GMO’s and allows them to be aware of what is going into their bodies and gives them reason to fight for GMO labeling so no one cane be ignorant of what they can cause.

 Work Cited

Donsky, Andrea. "Top 10 Reasons to Avoid GMOs." Top 10 Reasons to Avoid GMOs. Naturally Savvy, 9 Sept. 2014. Web. 28 Feb. 2016. <http://naturallysavvy.com/eat/whats-so-bad-about-gmos-top-ten-reasons-to-avoid-them>.