Gmo's Are A Grand Experience On Health, Environment By Katherine Tallmadge

There have been many questions by consumers ever since GMO’s or genetically modified organisms started being produced by farmers. The consumers want to know if GMO’s are safe for them to consume. Katherine Tallmadge an author of LiveScience tells us GMO’s have sparked a heated debate on the impact they have on health and the environment. She warns us that GMO foods could possibly be harmful to consumers, unlike conventional farm foods that have not been modified.
Tallmadge’s article “GMO’s Are a Grand experience on Health, Environment” primarily uses Ethos to show her credibility and expertise on GMO’s, along with points of logos to prove how GMO’s can be harmful for humans to consume.
Her article covers GMO’s and how they are unnaturally altered
She starts by identifying herself as a writer for livescience and is a registered dietitian. By letting us know she works for livescience we know she looks at the science behind GMO’s to prove points and not just her opinion. Since she is a scientist this helps her target audience the consumers to realize that she has studied and done research on GMO’s to prove they can be harmful for humans and the environment. This is very crucial because she has gained peoples trust by being a scientist and doing the research so she can protect the consumers from the health issues she has found liked to GMO’s. She knows that consumers value safe products to consume and that is why she is warning people that their health could be affected by GMO’s. Tallmadge also has been on CNN and has spoken out against restaurants and food companies. She has informed consumers that restaurants and food companies use GMO’s even though they don’t disclose it. One example of this is the fast-food restaurant Chipotle. Chipotle had a reputation for using environmentally friendly ingredients. Many people ate there with the belief they were being served environmentally friendly ingredients. Later Chipotle disclosed that it used genetically modified soybean oil along with other genetically modified ingredients. Chipotle is an example of where Tallmadge is teaching us the restaurants don’t want their consumers to know about their GMO
Yonkers says, “We should be using the precautionary principle with GMO’s, and assume that GMO’s have to be demonstrated to be good rather than assume that they are good.” This says that someone who is very involved in agriculture is saying we need to be careful when using GMO’s. Since Yonkers is the co-director of Fresh Farm Markets she is very involved with the field of agriculture and the process that food goes through to be produced and is considered an expert. Since she is an expert in the production of food she knows what food is safe and what food isn’t. This strengthens Tallmadge’s argument about health concerns in GMO’s, because we (the consumers) are being told to be careful when consuming genetically modified food since we don’t know if they are harmful to us. Yonkers also refers to GMO’s as a “grand experiment” in the American food supply. This should make her target audience the consumers skeptical of GMO’s especially if an expert in farm foods is calling this an experiment. This proves Tallmadge’s point on how GMO’s have not been proven safe even according to an expert in the field of agriculture who studies Fresh Markets of food. She is wanting to warn consumers that their health could be at risk if they consume