Benefits of GMO Foods Versus Organic Food featured in Conversations about Plant Biotechnology Video Available Online
St. Louis, MO -- Today, the Conversations about Plant Biotechnology Web website broadcast its video alms to cover biotech videos produced by added organizations. The aboriginal accession -- "What's for Lunch?" -- addresses chump apropos about aliment choices and was produced by the International Food Information Council Foundation (IFIC).
Is there one that is bigger than the others if it comes to award acceptable and alimental food? Let's acquisition out the man on the street There is no affirmation that it's added nutritious. There's no affirmation that it's added safe. It's not sustainable. It's not any healthier For us, organic, biotech and accepted are all administration systems, and you use them in agreement of antithesis in how it fits into your operation I'm adequate with alive that farmers are acceptable admiral of what they're doing. And therefore, that the aliment that is aloft commonly or through biotech is safe. For abounding people, amoebic agronomics and aliment biotechnology is an either or proposition. And in actuality, all of these aliment processes aftermath foods that are advantageous and of benefit This video about the benefits of GMO foods against amoebic food is a amusing and absorbing attending at how aliment is developed and produced. It is aimed at those who are ambiguous about the differences amid organic, genetically adapted (GMO) and accepted aliment assembly methods.
"Is there one that is bigger than the others if it comes to award acceptable and alimental food? Let's acquisition out," says an ad-lib banana who narrates the video and interviews "the man on the street" to abduction the assorted opinions and perceptions of consumers.
Dr. Bruce Chassy from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois is one of three diet and aliment assurance experts featured in the video. Chassy addresses the misperception that the allowances of amoebic foods cover accepting bigger or added alimental than accepted or GMO foods. "There is no affirmation that it's added nutritious. There's no affirmation that it's added safe. It's not sustainable. It's not any healthier," says Dr. Chassy.
Informed decisions about aliment added crave consumers to accept a acceptable compassionate of nutrition, aliment science and, sometimes, even agronomical assembly systems. For example, articles that are organic, accepted and genetically adapted all allotment the aforementioned appreciable concrete characteristics, and alter alone in the action through which they accept been produced or grown.
To accomplish accustomed amoebic labels, farmers have to accommodate to a austere agronomical arrangement that minimizes the use of constructed fertilizers, pesticides, advance regulators and livestock augment additives. In addition, aliment that is labeled amoebic places banned on genetically adapted ingredients.
While accepted agriculture systems alter from acreage to acreage and from country to country, a farmer's options are about bound alone by regulations set by administering agencies such as the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) or Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A biotech agriculturalist is artlessly a accepted agriculturalist that chooses to bulb a crop array developed or bred through biotechnology methods.
"For us, organic, biotech and accepted are all administration systems, and you use them in agreement of antithesis in how it fits into your operation," says Jennie Schmidt, a registered dietitian and agriculturalist who grows both amoebic and biotech crops. "I'm adequate with alive that farmers are acceptable admiral of what they're doing. And therefore, that the aliment that is aloft commonly or through biotech is safe."
The video concludes that the alone best that affairs is the healthful, alimental one. "For abounding people, amoebic agronomics and aliment biotechnology is an either or proposition. And in actuality, all of these aliment processes aftermath foods that are advantageous and of benefit," says dietitian Mary Lee Chin, M.S., R.D., who is a bloom and diet communications consultant.
"What's for Lunch" - the benefits of GMO foods against amoebic aliment video - can be viewed, downloaded or anchored into addition Web website from the Conversations about Plant Biotechnology Web site. In addition, visitors to the Web website can appearance videos capturing the opinions of added experts about the safety of genetically adapted foods.
The Conversations about Plant Biotechnology is advised to accord a articulation and a face to the farmers and families who abound GM crops and the experts who analysis and abstraction the benefits of biotechnology in agriculture. The Web website contains added than 70 two- to three-minute, candid, aboveboard and acute video segments with the humans who apperceive the technology best. The Web website is hosted by Monsanto Company -- a arch all-around provider of technology-based solutions and agronomical articles that advance acreage abundance and aliment quality.
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