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 Fritos Corn Chips  Bravos Tortilla Chips  Kellogg’s Corn Flaked  Gen. Mills Total Corn Flakes Cereal  Heinz 2 Baby Food  Quaker Chewy Granola Bars.

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2  Fritos Corn Chips  Bravos Tortilla Chips  Kellogg’s Corn Flaked  Gen. Mills Total Corn Flakes Cereal  Heinz 2 Baby Food  Quaker Chewy Granola Bars  Ball Park Franks  Duncan Hines Cake Mix  Ultra Slim Fast  Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix  Gardenburger  McDonald’s McVeggie Burgers  Green Giant Harvest Burgers  Ovaltine Malt Powdered Beverage Mix  Betty Crocker Bac-O’s Bacon Flavor Bits  Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix  Old El Paso Taco Shells  And Many More

3  Canola Oil  Chicory, red hearted  Corn  Cotton  Papaya  Potato  Soybean  Squash  Tomato  Honey  Rice  Sugar Cane  Sweet Corn  Flax  Tobacco  Peas

4  New rules went into effect as of April 18, 2004  Any product such as flour, oils and glucose syrups have to be labeled if they are from a GM source  Cheese, yogurt, and other products that were made by GM enzymes do not have to be labeled such  Products that come from animals such as meat, milk, and eggs that were fed GM animal feed do not have to be labeled

5 http://www.food.gov.uk/gmfoods/gm/gm_labelling

6  Pros Pest Resistance  Bred to resist pests  No pesticides required  People prefer no chemicals Herbicide Tolerance  Bred to resist the weeds around it saving time and money  People prefer no weed killer chemicals on food Disease resistance  Such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi Cold Tolerance  Anti-freeze gene from fish in seedlings Drought Tolerance  Don’t need as much water  Can withstand higher salt concentration Nutrition  Add more nutrients and minerals to easy to get food such as rice Pharmaceuticals Phytoremediation  Trees and plants cleen up sewage my absorbing heavy metal pollutions in the water

7  Cons Allergies  Allergy possibility greater than in normal crops  Ex. Peanut gene in tomato  Unknown allergy may surface Bacteria  Bacteria in digestive system pick up antibiotic resistance genes Domination of major food companies  Minor farmer go out of business and loss of jobs Tampering with nature  Morality issue Stress for organism  Not able to handle the new genes after a while Non-mandatory labeling  Confusing customers Select countries getting richer  Already poor countries get poorer as richer countries get richer

8  People know what’s in it  All natural  No surprises  More ethically friendly  Privately owned farms  Everyone can do it

9  Cons Pesticides  People dislike  Labor intensive  Cost ineffective Herbicides  People dislike  Cost ineffective  Labor intensive Diseases  Only so much natural protection Cold  Seedling in danger if it gets too cold Drought  If long drought occurs casualties Malnutrition  Common food surplus has only some nutrients


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