GGR111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Centre For Addiction And Mental Health, Canola, Genetic Pollution
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9:32 am: all food is genetically modified, tend to eat based on appearance rather than nutritional value, genetic engineering has focused on appearance of food, linked to increasing shelf life. new green revolution: gmo"s: monsanto, dropped toxins to kill leaves in trees that produce cancer. Reality: what exactly are they doing, producing pesticide and herbicide resistant crops, spread into agriculture system quietly and rapidly, canola: canadian invention. Rape seed produced bitter oil: none of our food is labeled as transgenic. Total area of transgenic crop production: argentina is like canada, china much further back, connection b. t green revolution. Some questions: technology is really expensive, poor where people don"t have money, focus on herbicide and pesticide resistance change how were doing it not what were doing. Why pesticide/herbicide resistance: pests and weeds become stronger every time, develop harsher chemicals which also destroy crops, being resistant, its not going to kill the crop, inserting gene into these crops to become resistant.
