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Closed GM Crops and Foods should have labelling

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The genetically modified crops cause cancer, loose the original taste and causes allergy outbreaks. Genetically modified crops are the plants which the DNA has been developed by modifying the genes.

-Unnatural
-Ends up in our food chain
-May have unknown long term effects
-Harm to other organisms. For example genes and their effect included in a crop may turn out to be poisonous to insects (monarch butterfly poisoned by GMO corns).
-Taste of GMOs is not as good or "natural".

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