GMO

It is often said that GMO is dangerous and people should stop making GMO. However, I think GMO is fine to produce for these reasons; it can solve a food shortage in developing countries. Also, it is not scientifically proved that GMO is harmful to a human body.

To begin with, GMO can be used for helping poor countries. This is because people can produce a lot of crops with small amount of money using genetically modified organisms process. So, they help poor countries or poor people with giving surplus food, or developing countries can learn how to make GMO and use this process for themselves. For example, in supermarkets, GMO food is usually cheaper than general food. So, with same money, I can buy more food if I choose GMO products.

Also, GMO products are not that much dangerous. This is because any of scientists have not demonstrated yet that GOM directly causes side effects to human bodies. In addition, nobody has died yet because of the side effect of GMO. According to a study conducted by Korean government, GMO food is not really related with average human life span.

To sum up, GMO is okay to use since there is no proof that GMO is harmful. Also, as technology is getting developed fast, there will be better GMO system, in the future, which might solve all doubts against GMO.

Co-growth between large and small corp.

Recently, there is big news, in our society not only in Korea, but also in the world, which is the protest against the power of capitalist “Occupy Wall Street!”.  This shows one of big side effect of capitalism. The main concern of Capitalism might be how to do a fair distribution. Most people said that Government should discriminate between large corp. and small corp. in benefits and taxes. However, I think this is not a best idea to solve this problem. To enhance competiveness of small company, consumers should help them and government should watch illegal behavior of large company.

To begin with, consumers should be more interested in this circumstance, and they should have more knowledge about economics. This is because if consumers do not buy products from a large company, they are not going to extend their business anymore. For example, when I was in Brooklyn, USA, I saw many young people who concern about better consuming for healthy economics. They had a campaign that tells about people should use local business for growth of local economics. People did not go to franchise restaurants, and they tried to use just local restaurants. In the result of that, there was almost no franchise chain restaurant.

Also, government should be strict in the application of rule. Sometimes, government forgives illegalness of large company because of risk of collapse of national economics. For instance, CEO of Samsung, Gunhee Lee, committed a lot of crimes such as bribe to prosecution, speculation, and fraud, but government gave him a pardon.

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Selling OTC in the convenience store

It is often said that the medicine should not sold at convenience store. However, I think convenience store should sell non-prescription drug for these two reasons; it gives more convenient for people to get medicine which they need, and selling medicine in the store is not the reason that causes side effects of abusing medicine.

To begin with, selling medicine in the store gives faster access for people to get the medicine. This is because most pharmacies usually close early and it is not located everywhere especially in country side. For example, when I traveled local area in Korea, I got a digest problem because of ingesting too much food. I just needed a digestive, but the convenience store near at me did not sell it. So, I had to take a bus and had to go to the downtown to get that medicine. I felt really inconvenience.

Second, buying non-prescription medicine in convenience store does not affect to increase the rate of side effect caused by non-prescription medicine. This is because people already can buy non-prescription medicine in pharmacies. If there is a problem, non-prescription medicine should not be sold even in the pharmacy. According to research conducted by USA and Korean government, the rate of side effects by abusing the medicine has been increased in the past couple years. USA sells OTC in stores but Korea does not. This result shows that selling in convenience store is not really related to causing side effects.

To sum up, I think stores should sell the medicine for people’s convenience. However, there is still some points in that we should be careful. Abusing non-prescription medicine is still dangerous problem. So, before the government stats this new policy, they should make more regulations, that can prevent abusing medicine, such as restricting buying age and limiting the amount of medicine that people can buy one time.

About overfhishing

In this rapidly changing world, the population in the world is getting bigger and the ramification caused by human being is also getting bigger. The resent biggest problem is might be food shortage, and one of the problems that are directly related to food problems is the overfishing problem. It is often said that it is okay that people keep overfishing because it serves more food for human. However, I totally disagree with doing overfishing is necessary for two reasons; overfishing cause bad effect not only to environment but also to human.

To begin with, overfishing destroys environment. As we saw in the presentation, if fisher does overfishing, they usually kill more fishes, such as other species, breeder, and young fishes, than what they actually want. This offsets other ramifications, especially in food chain. For example, if one species, A,’ population became smaller, another species, B,’ population which is eaten by A would have become unreasonably bigger.

Also, overfishing affects human life. This is because people could lose their job, especially fisher man, if the population of fish is getting smaller. For instance, according to the study conducted by Canada, the fisher man job has been decreased in past several years because of decreasing amount of white fish in the ocean.

To sum up, people should avoid doing overfishing for keeping environment nice and human. It might be hard to change one time, but if we start to pay attention about this issue, it is not going to take long.