What is GMO?
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Consumer Rights for Safe Food
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Food must be -
• Safe
• Nutritious
• Affordable
• Available
• Sustainable
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What is more healthy?
• boiled banana Chippy
• kalamansi juice Coke / Coke Lite
• gatas ng kalabaw Birch Tree / Nesvita
• kaldereta hot dog
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They are organisms, e.g., crops, which are altered by changing its gene sequence in order to induce a certain desired trait.
What are genetically modified organisms (GMOs)?
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How GMOs are created
• The DNA is made up of genes. A gene from another individual or species is inserted in the DNA of the host organism. E.g., the gene of bacteria is inserted into the DNA of corn.
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Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn, soya, canola
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And now -
BT talong
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Golden rice
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Why are GMOs created?• to kill a crop’s pest, e.g.‘corn borer’ :
e.g., Bt corn • to make the crop herbicide-resistant: e.g.,Round-up ready corn• to kill the virus attacking the crop: e.g., Bt papaya• to add nutrients:
e.g., Golden rice • for bigger and faster growth:
e.g., salmon
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Are GMOs safe to eat?
• No one knows for sure.
• No long term studies on safety of any GMO crop as human food has ever been done.
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But there is growing evidence that GMOs are hazardous
From
-human epidemics
-animal nexperiments
- observations
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Adverse effects of GMOs seen
in humans
• L-tryptophan epidemic• Starlink Corn epidemic• Bt pollen -allergies in Mindanao farms• Aspartame linked to MS Symptoms• GM Soya baby food -Infant deaths• GM insulin -- extreme fatigue and myalgia• GM hepatitis B vaccine - chronic fatigue and myalgia.• BT cotton - extreme allergies• 50% increase in soya allergies
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Modern diseases linked to GMOs
• Cancer – Americans have a 41% chance of developing cancer. American Cancer Society
• Diabetes - There are 25.8 million people in the United States, or 8.3% of the population, who have diabetes. American Diabetes Association
• Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD - Approximately 9.5% or 5.4 million children 4-17 years of age have ever been diagnosed with ADHD, as of 2007. American Psychiatric Association
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Laboratory animals have shown growth, organ and immunity defects
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Wildlife has been affected
• K ills also non-target species, e.g. monarch butterfly. Pollinators are affected.T he food chain / web is affected.
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Tumors
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How do GMOs get into our food supply?
• Processed food – Use flour, sugar and oil from Bt corn, soya, canola
• Seeds for planting
• Chickens, pigs and cows are fed GMOs
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Countries which plant the most GMOs
U.S. – 55 million hectares
Soya - 91%
Maize – 73%
Cotton – 87%
Argentina- 18
Brazil - 12
Canada - 6
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Consumers in countries or provinces that have rejected planting of GM crops
England Negros
Germany Bohol
Italy Mindoro
Leichenstein Ifugao
Austria
Japan
Peru
And many more…
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MORAL ISSUES
• Because of Intellectual Property Rights agreements, only a handful of multinational companies will control the food of the world:
Monsanto
Bayer
Syngenta
Du Pont
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Government denial
The Food and Drug Administration has announced that GMOs are safe. What is its basis?
Government supports GMO agriculture rather than organic farming, has resisted GMO labeling
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• Consumers of the Philippines, of the world! –
UNITE!
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What can we do as consumers?1. Avoid food with GMOs
• Guideline: foods with corn and soya derivatives, high fructose
2. Patronize organic food.3. Eat / buy local, unprocessed, organic4. Fight for our right to safe food5. Ask your congressmen to support the labeling
bill. 6. Campaign against the planting of GMOs on
Philippine soil
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Let us all all work for Safe food, safe planet.