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Answer the following questions from the video "the case for engineering our food"

 

(link provided below):

 

1. Genetic modification is not new; virtually everything we eat has been genetically modified in some manner. True or false?
2. The rice in the cereal that many of us fed our babies was developed by what process?
3. Why were over 70 million rice farmers in developing countries having trouble growing rice?
4. If you bite into an organic conventional papaya that is infected with the ringspot virus you will be chewing on tenfold more viral protein than the "vaccinated" genetically modified papaya. True or false?
5. In less developed countries, 500,000 children go blind every year because of a lack of what vitamin?
6. After 20 years of careful study and rigorous peer review by thousands of independent scientists, every major scientific organization in the world has concluded that the crops currently on the market are safe to eat and that the process of genetic engineering is no more risky than older methods of genetic modification. True or false?
7. According to Pamela Roland in "The Case for Engineering our Food", instead of worrying about the genes in our food, we must focus on what?

 

Note: The link to the video is as follows:

 

• https://www.ted.com/talks/pamela_ronald_the_case_for_engineering_our_food?language=en