What’s all the hype about?
Garden Week Ten 6/4/2018 ### What's all the Hype About? What’s all the hype about? We’ve heard the terms, GMO (Genetically Modified Organism), Hybrid, and Heirloom. But what does it mean to you and me? Let’s define each and look at some pros and cons. GM foods: define by the WHO (World Health Or...
Garden Week Ten 6/4/2018
What's all the Hype About?
What’s all the hype about? We’ve heard the terms, GMO (Genetically Modified Organism), Hybrid, and Heirloom.
But what does it mean to you and me? Let’s define each and look at some pros and cons.
GM foods: define by the WHO (World Health Organization); “are foods derived from organisms whose genetic material (DNA) has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally, e.g. through the introduction of a gene from a different organism.”
• Pros: May produce higher quantities, disease resistant, and be more draught resistant, See the history of corn in America and Rice in India.
• Cons: May loose flavor, cause illness, See Diabetes and other obesity related disease research, effect indigenous plant and animal life, and may be a factor in Colony Collapse Disorder a major problem for bees, will not reproduce.
• GMO plants...
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