need info on GMOs for teen project

[BreathOfFreshAir]

Hi,
I am doing a project whereby I am gathering all kinds of different resources to educate middle school age teens about GMOs. I wonder if you have any resources I might be able to use - it could include:
a lecture
movie
books
organizations
online resources
interactive web sites

I look forward to hearing your ideas.

Thanks!

[email protected] or reply to this post.

Thanks!

[The A Team]

Hi Karen
I look at Organic Consumers Assn. for updates on gmo food and agriculture:
https://www.organicconsumers.org/
They have information on current legislation, an action center and a green directory as well.

Andrea

Hi,
I am doing a project whereby I am gathering all kinds of different resources to educate middle school age teens about GMOs. I wonder if you have any resources I might be able to use - it could include:
a lecture
movie
books
organizations
online resources
interactive web sites

I look forward to hearing your ideas.

Thanks!

Thanks!

["Mad" Miles]

In regard to GMO's and Global Ecology, with an emphasis on Forest Protection, check out:

Global Justice Ecology Project

[79paul]

Look at
https://cookingupastory.com/intervie...odified-food-2
Looks like it's a 5 part series of videos, Lisa Weasel explains the issues well.

Hi Karen
I look at Organic Consumers Assn. for updates on gmo food and agriculture:
https://www.organicconsumers.org/
They have information on current legislation, an action center and a green directory as well.

Andrea

[Greensong]

Hi, I am doing a project whereby I am gathering all kinds of different resources to educate middle school age teens about GMOs. I wonder if you have any resources I might be able to use - it could include: a lecture movie books organizations online resources interactive web sites I look forward to hearing your ideas. Thanks! [email protected] or reply to this post. Thanks!

Hi, Karen. Here are six resources for you (the first five are excerpts/highlights. Click the links to see the full articles):

1. https://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/ob229.htm

Generation Monsanto (GM) - Why We Need Labels on GM Foods Now

Gen-M, the first Monsanto Generation of humans force-fed genetically modified foods hasn't reached reproductive age yet (they were born in the late 1990s). But, if a critical mass of animal feeding studies are any indication, the millennial generation, reared on Food Inc.'s unlabeled "Frankenfoods" can look forward to a long-term epidemic of cancer, food allergies, learning disabilities, sterility, and birth defects.

Corn (85% of U.S. production is GM), soy (91% GM), cotton (88% GM), canola (85% GM) and sugar beets (95% GM) are all genetically engineered by Monsanto to withstand massive doses of the company's glyphosate herbicide RoundUp, or else to exude their own pesticide, Bacillus Thuriengensis (Bt). RoundUp, the favorite weedkiller poison of non-organic farmers and gardeners, causes brain, intestinal and heart defects in fetuses. And scientists warn that RoundUp, the most extensively used herbicide in the history of agriculture, "may have dire consequences for agriculture such as rendering soils infertile, crops non-productive, and plants less nutritious." In addition, hundreds of thousands of US dairy cows are injected with genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone (developed by Monsanto) in spite of studies linking BGH with cancer, and longstanding bans on the drug in the EU, Japan, Canada, and most industrialized nations.

Collusion between Monsanto and elected public officials (including the current Obama Administration) has obscured the fact that almost all non-organic foods in the US contain GMOs. Despite poll after poll indicating that 85-95% of US consumers want mandatory labels on foods containing GMOs, Congress has heretofore listened to Monsanto and corporate agribusiness, rather than their own constituents. In the European Union, Japan, or South Korea, where GM foods must be labeled, there are no GM foods on grocery story shelves (and little or none served in restaurants), since most consumers would not buy them and a significant number would complain if they saw GMO labels on products. Consequently there are very few GM crops being cultivated in the EU (mainly a small amount of corn in Spain for animal feed).

Most Americans simply do not understand that 80% of non-organic supermarket processed foods (basically every product containing soy, corn, canola, cottonseed oil, or sugar beet derivatives) are contaminated with GMOs. While nearly everyone in North America has eaten genetically modified foods, only 26% believe that they have.

People don't think they're eating genetically modified foods because they have no way of knowing whether they are or not. Genetically modified foods aren't labeled.

2. https://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/ob229.htm

Genetically Modified Ingredients Overview

Here is a summary of what crops, foods and food ingredients have been genetically modified as of January, 2010:

Currently Commercialized GM Crops in the U.S.: (Number in parentheses represents the estimated percent that is genetically modified.)
Soy (91%), Cotton (88%), Canola (88%), Corn (85%), Hawaiian papaya (more than 50%), Alfalfa, zucchini and yellow squash (small amount), Tobacco (Quest® brand)

Other Sources of GMOs:

• Dairy products from cows injected with rbGH.
• Food additives, enzymes, flavorings, and processing agents, including the sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet®) and rennet used to make hard cheeses
• Meat, eggs, and dairy products from animals that have eaten GM feed
• Honey and bee pollen that may have GM sources of pollen
• Contamination or pollination caused by GM seeds or pollen

Some of the Ingredients That May Be Genetically Modified:

• Vegetable oil, vegetable fat and margarines (made with soy, corn, cottonseed, and/or canola)
• Ingredients derived from soybeans: Soy flour, soy protein, soy isolates, soy isoflavones, soy lecithin, vegetable proteins, textured vegetable protein (TVP), tofu, tamari, tempeh, and soy protein supplements.
• Ingredients derived from corn: Corn flour, corn gluten, corn masa, corn starch, corn syrup, cornmeal, and High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).

3. https://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com

Share this list with anyone who still eats foods with labels (a practice I avoid almost entirely)!
Excerpted from the downloadable 16-page "Non-GMO Shopping Guide"

4. https://www.organicconsumers.org/art...icle_19777.cfm

Bayer Admits GMO Contamination is Out of Control

Greenpeace International, Dec 8, 2009

EXTRACT: Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite 'the best practices [to stop contamination]'(1). It shows that all outdoors field trials or commercial growing of GE crops must be stopped before our crops are irreversibly contaminated.

Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite 'the best practices [to stop contamination]'(1). It shows that all outdoors field trials or commercial growing of GE crops must be stopped before our crops are irreversibly contaminated.

5. https://www.organicconsumers.org/art...icle_21049.cfm

Monsanto in Your Garden: Why You Need to Buy Organic Seeds

By Brenda Wagner, online volunteer Organic Consumers Association, June 15, 2010

When most people think of Monsanto, they picture huge Midwest farms growing Roundup Ready GMO corn and soy. But did you know that Monsanto and other agrochemical multinationals are in the home garden vegetable seed business as well?

The commercial seed industry has undergone vast consolidation in the last few decades, with several agro giants buying up many seed companies around the world. The majority of these companies target the commercial agriculture industry, but companies such as Monsanto and Swiss-based Syngenta produce a range of seeds for the home vegetable gardener as well.

6. https://www.seedsofdeception.com/GMF...ideo/index.cfm

VIDEO: Everything you HAVE TO KNOW
about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods

(This video will make anyone eating non-organic packaged foods or restaurant foods sit up and take notice!!
I was particular struck by the info at 34:45 and 47:00 minutes ... --LM)

Expert Jeffrey M. Smith, author of the #1 GMO bestseller Seeds of Deception, and Genetic Roulette, entertains a wildly appreciative audience with shocking facts about how genetically modified organisms (GMOs) entered our lives. Smith links GMO to toxins, allergies, infertility, infant mortality, immune dysfunction, stunted growth, and death. Whistleblowers were fired, threatened, and gagged, and warnings by FDA scientists were ignored. Start today to protect yourself by joining the Campaign for Healthier Eating in America— a plan that gives the consumer the power to end the genetic engineering of our food supply.