Authors: Mia Perković and Berenice Schwartz, Slovenia
What is GMO?
Are foods derived from organisms whose
genetic material (DNA) has been modified in a
way that does not occur naturally, through the
introduction of a gene from a different
organism.
GMO in Slovenia
• According to unofficial data there is nearly
30% of genetically modified food in Slovenian
store shelves and in America as much as 80%.
Golden rice
• Golden rice was a Swiss GMO invention for poor children all
over the world. Ordnary rice has no vitamin A, alltrough has
been only food in some countries and deficiency which is
estimated to kill 670,000 children under the age of 5 each
year. I dont support GMO but in some cases like hunger all
over the world i‘m not against it.
Featherless chicken
Nutella
Venomous cabbage
Scientists have recently taken the gene that programs poison in
scorpion tails and looked for ways to combine it with cabbage.
Why would they want to create venomous cabbage? To prevent
caterpillars eat cabbage crops. These genetically modified
cabbages would produce scorpion poison that kills caterpillars
when they bite leaves — but the toxin is modified so it isn’t
harmful to humans.
Flavr savr tomato
• The Flavr Savr tomato was the first commercially grown
genetically engineered food to be granted a license for human
consumption. By adding an antisense gene which hoped to
slow the ripening process of the tomato to prevent softening
and rotting, while allowing the tomato to retain its natural
flavor and color.
Banana vaccines
• People may soon be getting vaccinated for diseases
like hepatitis B and cholera by simply taking a bite of
banana. Researchers have successfully engineered
bananas, potatoes, lettuce, carrots and tobacco to
produce vaccines, but they say bananas are the ideal
production and delivery vehicle.
Label
• GMOs in Slovenia are required to have labeling
stamp, but we don‘t own or grow many gmo
products. Meat, milk , eggs, fish and other foods of
animal origin and the animals were fed with are not
labeled in Slovenia.
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
• The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the
Convention on Biological Diversity is an international
agreement which aims to ensure the safe handling,
transport and use of living modified organisms
(LMOs).