About GMO's
Government Role/Regulations
How Do They Effect/Why We Should Stay Away
Real Life Examples
GMO Labeling
100
A plant or animal that has been genetically altered
What is a GMO?
100
Evaluates GM plants for environmental safety
What is EPA?
100
Neonicotinoid pesticides are responsible for the decline of this insect needed for crop pollination
What is the honey bee?
100
Another name for dimethylsiloxane
What is silly putty/pink slime?
100
eating processed foods
What is eating GMO's?
200
People who discovered how to improve the DNA in plants and animals
What is a scientist?
200
This country now requires mandatory food labeling
What Europe?
200
Low yield potential, limited access to seeds, and the restriction of saving seeds is the cause of this around the world
What is the loss of family farms?
200
First U.S restaurant to voluntarily label GMO foods
What is Chipotle?
200
Corn, Soy, Canola, and Sugar
What is the four crops responsible for most GMO foods?
300
Techniques used to create a new version of a food plant or animal
What is genetic engineering?
300
Current guidelines, a genetically modified ear of corn sold at a produce stand is not regulated because it is a ___________. But a box of cornflakes is regulated because it is a ____________.
What is whole food and food product?
300
A greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide
What is nitrous oxide?
300
Popular restaurant substitute for butter and oil
What is phase oil?
300
Genetically engineered food should have labels
What is 90% favorable
400
has been a part of agriculture for 10,000 years and have been used to domesticate and increase yield of virtually every plant and animal used in agriculture today
What is traditional breeding?
400
Has the power to impose quarantines on problem regions to prevent movement of suspected plants, restrict import or export of suspected plants, and can destroy plants cultivated in violation
What is USDA?
400
2,4-D is related to this herbicide that was used as chemical warfare
What is Agent Orange?
400
95% of this product is genetically modified
What are sugar beets?
400
Information you would like to see on food labels that is not already there
What is only mentioned by 7%?
500
contaminates organic plants
What is GMO pollen?
500
Growers have to have their license for each pesticide they use and are required to follow the exact directions according to whose safety standards
What is EPA's?
500
A bacterium used as a pesticide that causes insects to starve to death when ingested
What is Bt toxin?
500
Vitamin A has been genetically added to this product for nutrition purposes in poor malnourished parts of the world
What is golden rice?
500
Processed foods contain at least one ingredient made or delivered from genetically modified crops
What is 70%