Case Side

Resolved: The United States Federal Government should completely ban all Genetically
Modified Organisms from all food productions.
I. Harm
A: GMOs harm humans
1. Institute for Responsible Technology 10 reasons to avoid GMOs
2014 They cite animal studies showing organ damage, gastrointestinal and immune system
disorders, accelerated aging, and infertility. Human studies show how genetically modified (GM)
food can leave material behind inside us, possibly causing long-term problems. Genes inserted
into GM soy, for example, can transfer into the DNA of bacteria living inside us, and that the
toxic insecticide produced by GM corn was found in the blood of pregnant women and their

unborn fetuses.
2. Hethir Rodriguez C.H., C.M.T. Research Indicates That GMO
Could Be a Cause of Infertility 2014 Genetically Modified foods, according to researchers, are
becoming a real problem when it comes to fertility, causing an influx in worldwide infertility rates. Since
the 1970s alone, sperm counts among the worlds male population have declined as much as 40-50%,
according to some studies. The problem has become so great that the EU has actually banned the use of
GMO products throughout Europe, while the United States continues to allow them throughout our
nation.

B: GMOs harm the environment

1. Mercola How GMOs Contribute to Environmental Damages 2013
Between 2006 and 2011, nearly 2 million acres of friendly native grasses have been lost to corn
and soytwo of the staples in processed foods that are driving chronic disease rates in an ever steepening
upward incline. The same thing is happening in South America, where native forests are leveled in order
to plant soy.

2. John Dill The Dangers of GMOs: Know the Environmental

Hazards 2014
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there is a very real risk of out-crossing,
which refers to the transfer of engineered genes (transgenes) from genetically modified crops to
conventional, cultivated plants or to related crop species in the wild. This may happen by means of wind,
insect pollination, or other transfer.

II. Inherency
A: GMOs cause infertility and long term adverse effects on humans
1. Christina Sarich Monsanto and GMOs Continue to Make Us Sterile
While Infertility Business Booms 2014
The average cost of just one in vitro fertilization procedure (IVF) costs $12,400 with doctors
fees. Now imagine having eight of them, without insurance, and all the side effects that go along with
them. Sound like a nightmare? Consider that GMO foods, like soy, are proven to be responsible for higher
rates of birth defects, infant mortality, and sterility. Bemuse the fact that 91% of all US soybeans are from
GMO seed and thats just one crop.

2. Arjun Walia Study Links Glyphosate To Autism, Parkinsons and

Alzheimers 2014

When you ingest Glyphosate, you are in essence altering the chemistry of your
body. Its completely unnatural and the body doesnt resonate with it. P450 (CYP) is the
gene pathway disrupted when the body takes in Glyphosate. P450 creates enzymes that
assist with the formation of molecules in cells, as well as breaking them down. CYP
enzymes are abundant and have many important functions. They are responsible for
detoxifying xenobiotics from the body, things like the various chemicals found in
pesticides, drugs and carcinogens. Glyphosate inhibits the CYP enzymes. The CYP
pathway is critical for normal, natural functioning of multiple biological systems within
our bodies. Because humans thatve been exposed to glyphosate have a drop in amino
acid tryptophan levels, they do not have the necessary active signalling of the
neurotransmitter serotonin, which is associated with weight gain, depression and
Alzheimers disease.
B: GMOs consist of chemicals that hurt bee populations
1. Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins GMOs are
killing bees, butterflies and...? February 2014 When the honeybees, our
most important food pollinators, started dropping like proverbial flies, scientists
scrambled to identify their killer (or killers). Attention eventually turned to the
increased use of a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids. Scientists now
believe at least some of these pesticides play a major role in Colony Collapse
Disorder (CCD), the ongoing demise of honeybee colonies. Who makes the
neonicotinoids? Syngenta, Bayer CropSciences and Dow Agrosciences. Who's
using them, and for what purpose? Companies like Monsanto, Bayer, Dow
Agrosciences . . . in the herbicides and pesticides and seeds they sell to farmers
who grow genetically engineered crops. Crops that eventually end up in our food,
or in the feed used to fatten up animals in factory farms-animals we slaughter for
food.We need bees in order to grow food, or at least some of it. Yet the foodGMO food, drenched in neonics-we are growing is killing the bees.It's not just
the bees that are dying. Butterfly and bird populations are in decline, too. And it's
not just the neonicotinoids that are to blame. Other herbicides and pesticides,
especially Monsanto's Roundup, used to grow GMO crops-and also used to
contain (kill) weeds in cities and home gardens-are decimating pollinators, fish
and wildlife, and some would argue, humans, too.

2. Heather Pilatic What Do GMO Seeds Have to Do

With Bee Die-Offs in the Corn Belt? May 2012 No farmer in their right
mind wants to poison pollinators. When I spoke with one Iowa corn farmer in
January and told him about the upcoming release of a Purdue study confirming
corn as a major pesticide exposure route for bees, his face dropped with worn
exasperation. He looked down for a moment, sighed and said, "You know, I held
out for years on buying them GE [genetically modified or engineered] seeds, but
now I can't get conventional seeds anymore. They just don't carry 'em." This
leaves us with two questions: 1) What do GE seeds have to do with
neonicotinoids and bees? and 2) How can an Iowa corn farmer find himself
feeling unable to farm without poisoning pollinators? In other words, where did
U.S. corn cultivation go wrong? The short answer to both questions starts with a
slow motion train wreck that began in the mid-1990s: Corn integrated pest
management (IPM) fell apart at the seams. Rather, it was intentionally unraveled
by Bayer and Monsanto.

III. Solvency
A: Outlaw all GMOS in the US, both sales and farming
1. Walden Bello 26 countries ban GMOs- Why
Wont the US 2013
A few years ago, there were sixteen countries that had total or partial bans on GMOs.
Now there are at least twenty-six, including Switzerland, Australia, Austria, China, India, France,
Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy, Mexico and Russia. Significant
restrictions on GMOs exist in about sixty other countries. The GMO wars escalated earlier this
month when the 2013 World Food Prize was awarded to three chemical company executives,
including Monsanto executive vice president and chief technology officer, Robert Fraley,
responsible for development of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

2. Eating Well Should the US Ban Genetically Modified Organisms

2015
Yet GM crops remain controversial. France, Italy, Japan and several other countries have
banned them because of health concerns and worries that GM crops may spread their engineered
traits to other plants. Although company-funded studies and the FDA have labeled these foods as
safe, a few preliminary studies suggest they are responsible for allergies, decreased fertility and
super-weeds.

B: Only Sell Organic Foods in Markets

1. Beyond Pesticides Health Benefits of Organic
Agriculture 2015 Organic food contributes to better health through reduced
pesticide exposure for all and increased nutritional quality. In order to understand
the importance of eating organic food from the perspective of toxic pesticide
contamination, we need to look at the whole picturefrom the farmworkers who
do the valuable work of growing food, to the waterways from which we drink,
the air we breathe, and the food we eat. Organic food can feed us and keep us
healthy without producing the toxic effects of chemical agriculture.

2. Lydia Zuraw Study Finds Organic Foods Have

More Benefits July 2014 A new international study suggests that organic
foods contain higher levels of antioxidants than conventionally grown

versions.The research, led by Newcastle University and published last week in

the British Journal of Nutrition, found concentrations of antioxidants such as
polyphenolics that were 18- to 69-percent higher in organic food.Many of these
compounds have previously been linked to a reduced risk of chronic diseases,
including CVD and neurodegenerative diseases and certain cancers, in dietary
intervention and epidemiological studies, the study reads.

Plan Side
Resolution: The United States Federal Government must ban GMOs from all food productions
and create a campaign to stop them from growing in the wild.
Topicality
A. GMOs: Genetically Modified Organisms
B. Harm: Causes physical problems
C. Wild: Places other than that of a developed establishment or farm

Plan
A. All GMOs will be taken off the market
B. Instead use agroecology
C. Lower costs of organic food by cutting taxes used for Agrichemical
agriculture
D. Farmers will be responsible to make sure what they grow is not a
GMO or face the charges for it
E. Destroy any GMO crops that are currently available
F. Create a team to track and demolish the growth of GMOs in the
wild

Evidence
A. Agroecology is the Better Alternative
1. Ken Roseboro 2013 Genetic Engineering is based on Dramatically
Incomplete Knowledge In my view it is the only alternative to industrial agriculture. It involves
creating an agroecosystem based on ecological principles as opposed to an industrial system based on
chemistry. We know now that there are certain basic principles of ecology, such as nutrient cycling and
autonomous pest control, which should be used. These principles produce positive effects on health and
the environment.

B.

Lower Cost of Organic Food

1. Ysanne Spevack 2014 The main reason that intensively farmed foods
are cheaper to buy in the shops is that you are paying for them in your taxes. Agrochemical agriculture is heavily subsidised by the taxpayer through the government,
whereas organic farming receives no subsidies at all.

Enforcement
A. Enforce through local courts and police
B. FBI will be involved in large scale operations
C. Discovered usage of GMOs in food will result in shutting down of
that company
D. States and farmers who refuse to comply will be charged
substantial fines

Funding
A. Make all government benefit programs time capped
B. Cut funding to FEMA
1. 25 Ways to Cut Government Spending Joe Messerili
July 2011 The federal emergency organization is terribly slow, bureaucratic, and
poorly set up to handle true emergencies like hurricanes. This is much better
handled at the state level or through private organizations such as the Red Cross.

C. Cut Spending to Military and institute other deep budget cuts

1. Successful Ways the Government Reduced Debt
Lisa Smith November 2013 Canada faced a nearly double-digit budget deficit
in the 1990s. By instituting deep budget cuts (20% or more within four years),
the nation reduced its budget deficit to zero within three years and cut its public
debt by one-third within five years. The country did this without raising taxes.
2. B is for Billion. What Military Cuts? Raed Jarrar
Feb 2015 Not many Americans realize that the vast majority of the U.S.
discretionary budget goes to military spending. This is the spending that
Congress has authority to determine every year -- a good indicator of our
priorities as a nation. Although the official Pentagon budget in 2015 is only
$495 billion, the actual budget for all Pentagon expenses is $645 billion. If we
add the cost of nuclear weapons (usually classified under the Department of
Energy) the total is around $665 billion, which is more than 57 percent of this
years discretionary spending. The rest -- less than 43 percent -- will cover a
broad set of public services, including education, environmental protection, job
training, scientific research, transportation, economic development, and a bunch
of low-income assistance programs.

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