Monday, March 12, 2012

Biotechnology Reading


            I thought the biotechnology reading was a good example persuading with balanced arguments. In the essay the author uses both arguments that support is view point and also uses arguments that go against his view. By using arguments that go against ones views allows him to disprove those arguments which makes his original argument look better.
            The reading itself was about feeding the poor and genetically modified foods. Personally I have to support genetically modified foods. While they might not be as healthy for us, it is better than increasing the amount of people who are starving for food. If we did not genetically modify foods then the amount of people that would go hungry would increase a lot faster than food production. In this day and age, making everything organic or as close to organic as possible is just not feasible. There are seven billion people in the world and continually increasing. We have to find ways to increase food production and if that means genetically modified foods then so be it. 

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