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Transgenic foods are genetically modified foods that contain ingredients from organisms whose genes have been altered. While large companies claim GM foods are safe and can help address hunger issues, critics argue they pose unknown health and environmental risks and go against natural order. Studies show GM foods do not deliver on promises and could increase hunger by encouraging corporate control of small farms. Spain is unique in Europe for large-scale GM farming, but critics say consumers see no benefit given risks and profits have gone to American, not Spanish, farmers.
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- 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.