1. GM
FOOD
Cecilia Villanueva
Diana Triviño

2. INDEX
• TRANSGENIC
FOOD ARE?
• VIEWS
• AGAINST
• SPEAKING TESTS
• LEVEL OF
EUROPE AND
SPAIN

3. TRANSGENIC FOOD ARE?
Are genetically modified foods, included
in its composition any ingredient from a
body that has been built using genetic
techniques, a gene from another species.

4. You get dozens of
varieties of one type of
food crop by modifyin
g traditional crossing
it with another of the
same
species for different
colour, different flavou
r and different
functions.

5. VIEWS
• TO FAVOR
Large multinationals say they are absolutely
safe as they have gone more controls than any
other food product that has ever existed in
history.

6. • Still trying to minimize the risks by controls
(methods: equivalence of weight).
•They promise that they will be more
nutritious, which increase yields and decrease the
use of chemicals and therefore they are the
solution to world hunger.

7. • AGAINST
• Critical of biotechnology: "What people need to
understand is that these new technologies, allows
scientists to overcome some biological limits“.

8. • It goes
against religious
sentiment, as
it manipulates
the natural
order of food.
• Not allowed to track
the damage, so we
can not know if
anyone sick
from these genetically
modified foods.

9. SPEAKING TESTS
• Studies show that GM foods do the opposite
of what was promised.
1. Cause health risks. 2. Cause impacts on the
environment
and crops, contaminating
them.

10. 3. Actually increase hunger, as it
4. They are more expensive and
encourages the move from
use more chemicals.
beingland owned by
small farmers to large
companies. "Hunger in the
world has social
causes, not lack of
production."
5. They are a monopoly of
multinationals, that the
business of GM foods is
dominated by major
companies.

11. LEVEL OF EUROPE AND SPAIN
• Spain is the only member of the
European Union GM farming on a
large scale.
•There is no
benefit to consumers,
and obviously there
are risks, so it is •At the moment all profits
normal to oppose GM have
foods, which seems to been for American
question the future of farmers.
these.