Everything desirable in the world can be divided into two categories: ; a desire or a need. There are very few things that meet the requirements to be considered needs; water, air, food, in other words the things that are necessary for survival. If an item is essential for someone to continue living, wouldn't you think those are the items people would focus on? Unfortunately, this is rarely the case, especially when it comes to food. Many people believe that an apple is just an apple, when in reality there are 4,000 species of apples and that doesn't even include variations on how and where an apple is found . grew up. In recent years, genetically modified organisms or GMOs have become a common commodity in our food, even though research shows they can cause harmful effects such as cancer on the human body. There are too many people who just follow what the label on their food says. Too many people blindly trust food producers. As the world industrializes, many people believe that food is still grown in the traditional way: humans plant the seeds, water and weed them, and when the plant has grown enough, it is harvested. When in reality, more and more plants are being created in labs and fed to humans without being fully tested or proven healthy. We have no idea of ​​the long-term effects on the human body when the very genetics of our diet are changed. The word sustenance is commonly considered interchangeable with the word food, but in this case, that is not the case, since sustenance only refers to the materials or nutrients that support and maintain the body and its complex functions. There are many foods in the world, but I would say that less than half of them would really... middle of paper......corde.com Calderón de la Barca, AM and Magaña-Gómez, JA (2009), Risk assessment of genetically modified crops for nutrition and health. Nutrition Reviews, 67:1–16. Harmon, A. (January 4, 2014). A lonely quest for facts about genetically modified crops. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com Haspel, T. (October 13, 2013). Genetically modified foods: what is true and what is not true. The Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/Mather, R. (2012). The threats of genetically modified foods. Mother Earth News, retrieved from http://www.motherearthnews.com/The Food Institution Report. (2013, October). Detailed GMO food labeling bill. Retrieved from https://foodinstitute-comVerhaag B. (2009) Scientists under Attack: When Corporate Interests Control Research. United States and Germany: Denkmal-Films Retrieved from http://digital.films.com