Earth Day
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Today I'd like to talk about genetic modification, genetic modification,
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or GMO is when you insert new DNA to an
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organism in order to create new indifferent physical and chemical
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characteristics. This is efficient because it can increase the growth
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rate of a plant and make a risk disturb diseases.
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However, there is some bad negative impacts that come with
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it. A type of G amount I'd like to talk
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about is called herbicide resistant crops.
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These crops make it easy to kill weeds in a
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field because they're herbicide resistant.
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However, this can cause an increased use of herbicides and
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herbicides have chemicals which can run off into nearby streams
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and contaminate water based ecosystems, killing off organisms living there.
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This is bad for ecosystem and environment.
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So what we can do is promote more non GMO
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foods and crops when we look into stores and see
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that. So let's try to be more aware and take
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part in our community.