ANT214H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Antimicrobial Resistance, Pesticide, Soybean
Document Summary
Whole development of genetic food trade in plants is profit motivated: not based on the nutrition, taste or content of plant. Today most of the cotton, corn, canola and soy products on supermarket shelves are genetically engineered. 50-80% of american soybean crops are genetically engineered. High percentage of potato and corn crops. All have genetically altered ingredients vegetable oil, infant formula, all fast foods. Frankenfoods are being discovered; companies not engaged in a standard of labeling: research is done w/o oversight, evolved, hatch and pervasive in our atmosphere. Promise of biotech is that it will be more environmentally friendly: first products associated with greater pesticide use. Pesticide bt (natural soil bacterium) is naturally occurring in nature and is used by biotech companies: they spliced cotton, corn, potatoes and other foods. Bt is produced by a microbe in nature; microbe makes in its body a toxin that is very poisonous to a certain kind of insect.
