Food Chain Radio Michael Olson

Urban Farming Agriculturalist

GMO SCIENCE VRS GMO SCIENCE

Whose GM science should we trust?

Guest: UC Davis Animal Science Professor Allison Van Eenennaam and U Georgia Plant Science Professor Wayne Parrot 

This Poll is closed

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Neither

Both

Critics of genetically modified foods

Manufacturers of genetically modified foods

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36%

16%

32%

16%

Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods that have been re-manufactured by taking the genes from one species of life and splicing them into the genes of another species to create, in effect, an entirely new species.

GMO Safety Study by Dr. Judy Carmen

2012 GM Maize and Roundup Study by Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini

The most popular uses of GM technology include creating plants infused with pesticides to kill insects, and plants that can withstand herbicides that kill weeds.  Often the re-manufactured genes are “stacked” together.

With GM seeds, one farmer may now grow a thousand acres of crops with no pests or no weeds, thus making the technology one of agriculture’s most significant tools.

Some consumers, however, wonder, “What’s in this technology for us, other than food that has been infused with pesticides and immersed in herbicides?”

Though hundreds of scientific studies prove genetically-modified (GM) foods are safe to eat, some scientific studies suggest the GM foods might not be safe.  Examples of the contrary include the Seralini study that demonstrated a significant increase in cancerous tumors in rats fed GM feeds, and the Carman study that demonstrated a significant increase in severe stomach inflammation in pigs fed GM feeds.

The conflict between the sciences leads us to ask…

Whose science should we believe, that of the producers or that of the critics?

Tune in here, for the syndicated Food Chain Radio Show #972 Live on June 21, 2014 Saturday 9AM Pacific