would you…. end world hunger if you could? approve of changing farming methods to produce enough...
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Support technology that allowed vegetables to have longer shelf life
– increasing profits for the company?
feed Food grown from seeds, when the seeds were modified in a laboratory to your children if they
were starving to death?
• GM foods or GMOs (genetically-modified organisms) is most commonly used to refer to crop plants created for human or animal consumption using the latest molecular biology techniques.
Advantages of GM
• Pest Resistant
• Drought Resistant
• Improved nutrition
• Herbicide resistant
• Cold tolerant
• Pharmaceutical inclusive
Perceived Dangers of GMs
• Pollen from GMs could blow onto other plants and endanger wildlife
• Create pesticide resistant pests
• Herbicide resistant GMs could crossbreed with weeds creating “super weeds”
• Patented GMs could increase costs for farmers creating more have and have-nots
• Introduce new allergens into foods
Organic Movement
• No chemical pesticides, fertilizers
• Natural solutions – sustainable
• Locavore movement• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2LBICPEK6w&safe=active
• Store Wars
• Meatrix
• Corn Producers
Food Miles
• 100 yrs ago – it took 1 calorie of fossil fuel energy to produce 1 calorie of food.
• Now 10 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce 1 calorie of food
• http://www.pbs.org/e2/teachers/teacher_309.html