Annotated Bibliography: Genetically Modified Food

Eric Zhang
Genetically Modified Foods
Ms. Frady
2/292016
Annotated Bibliography
Working Thesis and Research Question: The questions to be answered this project is whether or not one should support the production of genetically modified foods.

Cook, Guy. "Genetically Modified Language: The Discourse of Arguments for GM Crops and Food." Questiaschool. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.
"Guy Cook." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 13 Mar. 2016.
The author of Genetically Modified Language: The Discourse of Arguments for GM Crops and Food explore GM debate between the prophet of the GM food and the opponent of the GM food, the writer gives a brief summary of each side’s opinion and how the public opinion remains unconvinced and antagonistic, then gives some

"GMO Food Pros and Cons." Newsmax. 2015. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.
"HootSuite Expands in Asia Pacific with Ken Mandel as Managing Director." Hootsuite Social Media Management. 2013. Web. 13 Mar. 2016.
This article detailed discusses the pros and cons of GM foods, and shows how the pros of GM foods can overcome the cons of GM foods because the benefits that GM foods can provide to the world is so valuable, which makes the disadvantage of GM foods seem negligible.
Ken Mandel is the CEO of XM Asia Pacific, which will make this a reliable source.
This article will support my thesis as it shows there are much more pros of the GM foods than cons GM foods

"Will Frankenfood Save the Planet." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company. Web. 13 Mar. 2016.
People should support the production of Genetically Modified food because the benefit it will provide to the agricultural world is so valuable, which will make the disadvantage of it seem negligible. “In ten years or less, most American environmentalists (European ones are more dogmatic) will regard genetic modification as one of their most powerful tools” (Rauch).
“Return an acre of farmland to productivity, or double yields on an already productive acre, and, other things being equal, you reduce by an acre the amount of virgin forest or savannah that will be stripped and cultivated. That may be the most important benefit of all” (Rauch).
“We can't triple yields again with the technologies we're already using. And we might be lucky to get a fifty percent yield increase if we froze our technology short of biotech” (Rauch).
“That the Green Revolution has saved not only many human lives but, by improving the productivity of existing farmland, also millions of acres of tropical forest and other habitat—and so has saved countless animal lives” (Rauch).
“If properly developed, disseminated, and used, genetically modified crops might well be the best hope the planet has got”