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Salmon

leade19447 — 2014-02-13 06:35:35 UTC

Salmon is one of the most commonly Genetically Modified foods. It is modified because Salmon normally takes a long time to grow and mature but their genetically modified counterpart is a lot better and may help the environment.

Squash

leade19447 — 2014-02-13 06:45:35 UTC

Genetically Modified Squash is very useful because the natural version is very weak and they can catch deadly diseases easily. The only problem with GM squashes is that when mixed with natural squashes they can enhance the vunrebilities of natural squashes, that is especially bad news since scientists think they have already mixed.

Lematos

leade19447 — 2014-02-13 06:56:25 UTC

Lematos are a cross between tomatoes and lemons created by some Israeli scientists who wanted to know if it was possible to make the aroma of a fruit more appealing. The lemato has a longer shelf life than tomatoes or lemons. It has contains less of the antioxidant lycopene than a tomato has. It is also more resistant to pests that either the tomato or the lemon

My Quiz Results

leade19447 — 2014-02-17 11:31:49 UTC

Corn

leade19447 — 2014-02-17 11:47:32 UTC

Corn is a very common genetically modified food since bugs like to eat corn farmers were having trouble keeping them away and so genetically modified corn started to be more frequent. genetically modified corn keeps away the bugs by killing them the second they eat it since their bodies cant handle it however the corn also kills a species of butterflies.

Peas

leade19447 — 2014-02-17 11:58:46 UTC

Genetically modified peas are very useful for farms and houses because they don't need pesticide since they kill mice when the mice try and eat them. However they can cause serious alergic reactions in humans when eaten since the peas are injected with the natural pesticide from kidney beans.

genetically modified foods

leade19447 — 2014-02-17 12:04:05 UTC

genetically modified(or gm) foods are foods that were injected with a gene from another animal or plant that help it to survive from bugs or predators or to help it grow big and produce more milk for example. Most gm foods are crops that farmers want bugs to stop eating. A lot of people think that gm foods are bad because they aren't natural and in one case a country even banned all GM foods.

Benifits and negatives of Genetically Modified food

leade19447 — 2014-02-18 06:17:10 UTC

Mr. Haugen's padlet

leade19447 — 2014-02-19 00:34:47 UTC

Padlet Guidlines

leade19447 — 2014-02-19 00:35:44 UTC

GM Foods in Singapore

leade19447 — 2014-02-24 10:53:57 UTC

A lot of GM foods are available in singapore however the most common are Canolla, corn, most fruits and tomatoes. In 1996 Singapore approved the Flavr-Savr Tomato for sale in shops, It was the first GM whole food approved. Genetically Modified foods in singapore do not have to be labelled since the foods come from different countries all around the world and if Singapore were to label them they would have to develop their own system and then label them all as they arrived in singapore. The GM foods on the market currently are only first stage genetically modified foods which means their nutritional value hasn't changed only their appereance, shelflife and smell. There is a second generation classification however they are not on sale yet because not enough testing has been done.

Arguments & Rebutals

leade19447 — 2014-02-25 06:00:13 UTC

I believe that GM foods are good much better overall than whole foods. They are better because they help the animals that live near the fields where they are grown since the use for pesticide is gone. They can also help children by injective the crop to make it so the crop has more of one vitamin and can save children in poverties lives. The GM crops benefit the farmers because they don't have to risk their lives every time they use pesticide.

Rebuttals for other Side:

1. The Crops don't alway help the other animals. Take the monarch butterfly for example. When they eat the corn they die.

2. We don't know that they GM foods can actually help the children they could be causing the children to have cancer at the same time that they are getting the vitamins that they need.

3. They also aren't that much better for the farmers because the seeds become a lot more expensive.

Responses to Rebuttals:

1. Is the benefit of one species really worth it when that one sacrifice can save hundreds.

2. We may not know wether or not Gm foods cause cancer but we also don't know wether or not religion causes cancer so we cant stress over things we don't know are true are not.

3. seeds may become more expensive but they help the farmers to live longer and as people say time is money. They also sell better because they look, taste and last longer so the farmer will earn the money back with a decent profit.