Organic Food Basics
True or False: Most of the food produced and consumed in the US is not organic
True
This widely-used herbicide, also known as RoundUp, has been linked to cancer.
What is glyphosate?
True or False: Genetic engineering (a GMO cannot be labeled
organic)
True
Remove allergens, pesticide application may be reduced, improve shelf-life, resistance to environmental factors, improve nutrition when fortified
What are the benefits of GMOs
True or False: Evidence shows that GMOs are harmful to humans when consumed.
False
This is one key reason organic food is not accessible to everyone.
What is the high cost of production and limited affordability?
This herbicide causes mutations in amphibians.
What is atrazine?
This term refers to organisms that contain genes from another species.
What are transgenic organisms?
A genetically altered vegetable with
extended shelf life, introduced in 1994
What is the Flavr Savr
affects the uptake of nutrients from other sources of
food
What is Lectins(Le)
This U.S. organization sets the official label for "bioengineered" foods.
What is the USDA?
This class of insecticides harms pollinators and is banned in the EU.
What are neonicotinoids?
special set of technologies that alter the genetic
makeup of living organisms to produce a desirable trait
What is genetic engineering
the most common crop in the United States, approximately
92% of it is a GMO
improves digestion of soybean
Kunitz Trypsin inhibitor (Ti)
These are two synthetic substances still allowed in organic farming due to low health risks.
What are chlorine and hydrogen peroxide?
Washing produce helps but doesn’t remove these entirely. (especially if they’ve penetrated the skin)
What are pesticides
These units of heredity are modified in GMOs.
What are genes
GMO corn that produces proteins that are toxic to certain insect pests but not to humans, pets, livestock, or other animals.
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn
Less production due to cost
Lab grown meat
What is clean 15 and dirty dozen. Give a list of all food sources talked about during lecture and a proper definition
Clean 15: Hard peel that is not consumed. Avocado, Kiwi, Mango, Pineapple, Sweet Corn, Sweet Peas, and Watermelomon
Dirty Dozen: Grown with cancer causing pesticides and are consumed in their entirety. Blueberries, Grapes, Strawberries
naturally occurring
compounds extracted from
chrysanthemum plants and
spearmint oil from mint plants
What are pyrethrins
Unlike GMOs, these methods include breeding and hybridization.
What is selective breeding?
eliminates a common soy allergen
What is P34
First animal to be genetically modified
What is the AquAdvantage