PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1. Who are the ELF? What are they against?

ELF: Earth Liberation Front, Against: research of science like biotechnology. 2. Which crop was the catalyst to the GMO food industry? Corn 3. What is the gene gun? How does it work? Gene gun: biolistic particle delivery system-originally designed for a plant It works with the use of Transformation, and a device for injecting cells with genetic information.

PART 2: BT 4. Which university was the 1st to try GMO foods? The 1st university to try GMO foods was Cornel University. 5. What were some of the first ideas for GMOs? The first idea was that it would change the chemical in it and modify food to make it better. 6. Who are Monsanto? What did they set out to do? Monsanto: a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. They were set out to make GMO foods and wanted corn to make its own pesticide. 7. What is a big risk for corn crops? What is the problem with spraying with pesticides? The big risk for corn crops is that it could possibly harm us. Spraying pesticides can affect the environment and us humans in a negative way. 8. What is BT? What does it do? BT: Bacillus thuringiensis. Used as a biopesticide against insects. 9. Why was genetically engineering considered to be a saver of the environment? It was considered to be a saver of environment because it didn't need pesticides in order to kill bugs. 10. When did GM foods get into the widespread media? During the 1980s.

PART 3: THE ANTI-GM MOVEMENT 11. What did the European Union vote for? Voted for a ban. 12. What did the University of New Mexico researchers find out from surveys and focus groups? They found out that people don't know, or think that they do not eat genetically modified food. 13. What is your opinion on GMOs? (Before watching the video?) I thought that it was unsanitary and unhealthy. 14. Can someone prove that GM foods are safe? No, because they're genetically modified. 15. How are GM foods tested for safety? GM foods arent being tested frequently, and whenever they do get tested, the tests arent accurate. 16. How does Monsanto test their GM foods at the molecular level? They test it and say that there isn't any evidence that something can go wrong. 17. What do the USDA, FDA and EPA do for GM foods? USDA: Check if they're safe to grow. FDA: Check if they're safe to eat. EPA: Get involved with crops that contain BT.

PART 4: ALLERGIES

18. Why are people concerned about allergies with GM crops? GM crops that may cause allergies can possibly kill them 19. Why should people have confidence in GM foods? Because its been tested to be safe to eat. 20. What do the "Union of Concerned Scientists believe should be done?

They believe that we should check our food and be safe. 21. What happened to Star link Corn? Explain the events and consequences. It exposed consumers to Cry9C-so they stopped it from being exposed because it was harmful. 22. Describe the meaning of the statement, The absence of evidence isnt the absence of harm. Just because there isnt any evidence found, doesnt mean that it cant be harmful for you.

PART 5: GM HISTORY 23. How did humans get different types of fruits and vegetables? The spreading of seeds. 24. What are some of the risks of natural breeding of fruits and vegetables? It could possibly be dangerous and can have an effect with causing problems. 25. What is the difference between classic breeding and genetic engineering? "classical" is natural way of breeding and genetic is man-made-which could lead to problems. 26. Do you believe that a single gene in a new species would change the species as a whole? Not necessarily, because just that one gene is changing but not drastically, so it wouldnt change the whole specie. 27. Monsanto holds ______ of U.S. agricultural patents. 12%

PART 6: GMOs AND THE ENVIRONMENT 28. Monarch Butterflies love to eat Nectar 29. What did the scientists find out about the BT Corn and Monarch Butterfly Caterpillars? Monarch caterpillars have to be exposed to pollen levels greater than 1,000 grains/cm2 to show toxic effects.

PART 7: GMOs AND CONSUMERS 30. What is the difference between BT Corn Pollen in the lab and in the field? BT corn pollen in a lab is not spread out as much as it is in field-more happens in the field. 31. Why is it so hard to know if BT Corn Pollen is harmful to Monarch Butterflies in the field? Monarch Butterflies are hard to detect which makes it harder to tell if it would be harmful to them. Caterpillar stage of Monarch feeds on milkweed. Laboratory studies shows a few mortality in Monarch caterpillars fed milkweed leaves covered with BT corn pollen. 32. If you had the choice between BT Corn and spraying with insecticide- which would you choose and why? I would choose insecticide because BT Corn already shows some harmful effects to some species. 33. What does it mean when food is organically grown? When food is organically grown it means that the food is grown and processed using no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. 34. What are the fears of using BT Corn over time? The fears are that biological systems are infinitely flexible and far smarter. They seem to manage very effective at overcoming whatever mechanism we use to try and control them.

PART 8: PESTICIDE RESISTANCE AND FEEDING THE WORLD 35. What has the EPA mandated against the pesticide resistance? How should this help? EPA requires a registrant to place a statement on label regarding places where a pesticide's use has been banned. 36. Why is it hard to guarantee that foods are GM free? Because they're not labeling them properly and sometimes they get them mixed up. 37. What is subsistence agriculture? Subsistence agriculture is a Form of farming in which nearly all crops or livestock raised are used to maintain farmer and his family, leaving little surplus for sale or trade.

38. Why did Monsanto invest in the sweet potato for Africa? What were the results? Monsanto invested in the sweet potato to develop a virus resistance sweet potato through biotechnology, but his investment turned out to fail. PART 9: FEEDING THE WORLD 39. What is one of the biggest problems with soil in farming in parts of Mexico? Soil erosion from corn production. 40. Why do people resist the idea of helping people with GM foods? Harmful to peoples health.

PART 10: SUCCESS AND CHALLENGES 41. How much money did Monsanto donate toward the world agriculture project? $380,000. 42. What other actions have the ELF taken? ELF has taken a variety of criminal actions since 1992. 43. The genetic Salmon have been engineered to grow __ to __ x larger than regular Salmon. 15% to 20% times larger. 44. What is special about the transgenic Salmon? It grows twice as fast as its wild counterpart. 45. What is the good genes hypothesis? An explanation about traits females choose when selecting a mate are honest indicators of males ability to pass on genes that will increase survival or reproductive success of her offspring.

PART 11: POPULATION PROBLEMS 46. What did the model tell us about what would happen if the transgenic fish escaped and ended up mating with regular fish? That all fish will end up being GMOs. 47. What other GM products are in development? Explain the plans for bananas.

Some foods, like bananas are usually picked when unripe then artificially ripped in time. 48. What is golden rice and how it is helpful? Explain Golden rice is a variety of Oryza sativa rice produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize betacarotene; it's helpful because it's a precursor of vitamin A.

PART 12: THE FUTURE OF GM PRODUCTS 49. Why is biotech companies worried about labeling GM products? Because then people won't want to buy their products, People will find out what is contained in them. 50. Why do labels reduce Americans fear of GM food? Because now they now the truth behind what they're eating. 51. In spite of the fact that people in focus groups stated that they would rather see GM foods labeled, proposition 37 was rejected by Californians in November 2012. Voters were concerned about the increased costs of products that would be forced to be labeled. What is your opinion of labeling? There should be a label on everything we are eating or maybe even using we should know what we are being exposed of, otherwise we wouldnt know if it was harmful for us or not. CONCLUSION: Write a 5-paragraph persuasive essay (for OR against) on one of the following topics - The use of GM food products - The use for labeling GM products - The use of GM engineering for other products (vaccines, ect.) - Other topic