Explore the nature of genetically-modified food and the ethical questions about GMO businesses.

Cite: AquAdvantage (Attached)
Cite: the information compiled by the US Food and Drug Administration on the product https://www.fda.gov/animalveterinary/developmentapprovalprocess/geneticengineering/geneticallyengineeredanimals/ucm280853.htm
Cite: http://www.goldenrice.org/
Cite: http://www.mosquitomagnet.com/articles/gmo-mosquitoes-pros-cons

GMOs offer both tremendous hope to help with nutrition and disease (like Golden Rice http://www.goldenrice.org/) and we have been selecting for crop characteristics since humans organized agriculture. At the same time, modifying organisms can have unexpected and devastating consequences. For example, in South Florida, GMO mosquito (http://www.mosquitomagnet.com/articles/gmo-mosquitoes-pros-cons have been tested to control Zika virus

What is your position on genetically-modified foods? Construct your argument based on your personal ethical architecture? What is important to you in agreeing to support GMOs and would you use those products to feed yourself and your family?

Submission Instructions:

This essay is more expansive because it includes the more personal relationship with food and you might find that you write more on this area than elsewhere. Try to keep your submission under 750 words . Combine your essay and notes into a single document prior to submitting.

Make sure your name is in the header of the document and include page numbers. Follow APA formatting in your references and the general APA conventions on the document.

Grading Rubric

Your assignment will be graded according to the grading rubric.

Very Proficient:

Thesis is clearly stated and developed; specific examples are appropriate and clearly develop thesis; conclusion is clear; ideas flow together well; good transitions; succinct but not choppy; well-organized.

Proficient:

Most information presented in logical sequence; generally organized but better transitions between ideas is needed.

Acceptable:

Concept and ideas are loosely connected; lacks clear transitions; flow and organization are choppy.

Improvement Needed

Presentation of ideas is choppy; doesn’t flow; development of thesis is vague

Unacceptable

Ideas are disjointed and have no apparent logical order to writing; poor or nonexistent relationship with assignment