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Genetically Modified Food

Genetically Modified Food. Lack of Testing and Labeling Leads to Fears By: Corrine Whittier. 1. 2. How many of you despise fish or a certain vegetables?. Fig.1 Vegetables. Health Supplements and Vitamins. Fig. 2 Fish. wa.gov. 3. They’re Everywhere.

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Genetically Modified Food

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  1. Genetically Modified Food • Lack of Testing and Labeling Leads to Fears • By: Corrine Whittier 1

  2. 2 How many of you despise fish or a certain vegetables? Fig.1 Vegetables. Health Supplements and Vitamins. Fig. 2 Fish. wa.gov.

  3. 3 They’re Everywhere • GMOs account for 60-70% of food products in America (Charman 76) • “Unless you consciously act to avoid GM foods, you are almost certainly eating them every day” (Charman 76)

  4. 4 The Controversy • Benefits: • High Crop Yield, • Can be planted in Depleted Soil • Use less chemicals • Negatives • Unknown Health Effects • Hard to control

  5. 5 Testing and Labeling could generate a less concerning and more useful GMOs.

  6. 6 High Crop Yield • Not only growing more ,but growing faster • Growing World Population • “approximately 1.5 billion more people in the next twenty years” ( Jefferson 33)

  7. 7 Grown in Depleted Soil • Genes are altered so they can grow in nutrient depleted soil • Help third world countries • “over 800 are chronically or severely malnourished” ( Jefferson 33)

  8. 8 Use Less Chemicals • Desirable characteristics added to plants • “natural soil bacterium that kills certain insects” (Charman 76) • Using Pesticides • Run off into water • Threatening to farmers

  9. 9 Unknown Safety: Allergens • Genes taken from all different types of plants and animals • Undetectable to Public

  10. 10 Dangers to Environment • Decreasing Biodiversty • Effects cannot be reversed • Spread quickly

  11. 11 Pharmaceutical and Industrial Plants • GMO’s created for veterinary use • Antibiotics, vaccines, plastics and fuels being found • Very new product • “confidential business information” (Charman 80)

  12. 12 Effect on Farmers • Higher Cost • Transgenic Plants • Law suits

  13. 13 The Solution

  14. 14 First Step: Testing • Little Testing Done • FDAs control

  15. 15 Second Step:Labeling • Easier with Testing • Make American Public Aware • Increase Trade with Europe

  16. 16 Work Cited • Health Supplement & Vitamins. "Adding Vegetables to Your Diet to Lower Cholesterol.” trajansucks.com. 2011.Web. 13 November 2011. • WDFW Washington Government. wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/salmon/chum.2011.Web.13 November 2011. • Charman,Karen. ”Genetically Modified Food: Promise & Perils.” Mother Earth News 194 (2002): 74+. GreenFILE. Web. 30 October 2011. • Jefferson,Valeria. “The Ethical Dilemma of Genetically Modified Food.” Journal of Environmental Health 69.1 (2006): 33+. GreenFILE. Web. 30 October 2011.

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