Teran Faust

Teran Faust

HW #4

Waiter, There’s a Gene In My Soup

Who new I started each day off with a genetically modified food product?  I didn’t, but now I know that a good population of the U.S. does as well.  Monsanto is a GMO company that provides corn and other genetically modified crops to a mass of popular food companies such as Kellogg’s, Kraft, Frito-Lays, Quaker, and many more.  Monsanto’s corn and soybeans have been known to be GMO crops, and these are found in most of these popular cereal and snack food companies.  A cereal that I eat often is Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes, whose corn ingredient comes from Monsanto.  The nutrition label on the box says that the “corn used in this product contains traces of soybeans,” meaning that it contains a little bit of the GMO soybeans from Monsanto in addition to the corn.  I never knew the corn ingredient to my cereal was genetically modified, but apparently most of the cereals I’ve eaten in my life have contained a GMO.

Sources:

http://occupybigfood.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/warning-may-contain-gmos/

http://www.frostedflakes.com/Power-Up-Breakfast.aspx

Boerje Fonn Skaar

ASSIGNMENT #4 - WAITER, THERE'S A GENE IN MY SOUP!

Wtriter: Boerje Fonn Skaar

One product that i Consume which contains genetic modified materials are Morningstar Farms - Corn Dogs. The product containt a genetic modiefied corn-type called Bt-corn. Manufacturer of the product is as explained Morningstar but the Bt-corn is prduced by Aventis Crop Sciences, and the altered corn is called Starlink.

The specific genetic mod of the cornplant is a placement of the insect killing gene/bacteria Bacillus Thuringiene. This poison will kill harmful insects and means that farmers no longer needs to fight insects with insecticides.

Morningstar Farms is a division of the Kellogg Company and they have both drawn cricticism from consumers due to the use of prducts containing GM food. A variety of insects are at risk of being killed. It might be predatory insects that eat the harmful ones or, perhaps attractive insects such as butterflies. In the USA, where Bt-corn is used a great deal there is much debate over the harmful effects of Bt-corn on the Monarch butterfly

Morningstar is currently the largest vegeterian prducer in the United States, and was introduced by Worthington Foods. The Veggie Corn Dogs contains 2 carbohydrates, 1\2 fat and 1 protein and can be purchased at grocerys nearby for a retail price of $4.29.

Sources:

http://blogfully.net/2011/04/morning-star-farms-veggie-corn-dogs-review/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_maize

http://www.bionetonline.org/english/content/ff_cont3.htm

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/10-genetically-modified-food-products.htm

http://www.morningstarfarms.com/morningstar-farms-veggie-corn-dogs.html

http://gecorn.tripod.com/id2.html

Dega Gebre

Dega Gebre

11/15/2012

Soc. 166

Waiter, There’s a Gene In My Soup

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) are food products that are for human consumption which have been modified to enhance desired traits within certain products. GMO’s used to be modified by hybridization with other plants, to reach the desired outcome for that specific plant. However, recent technology advances have allowed for genetics to play an integral part in modifying the genes of the plants. By incorporating genetic engineering, plant traits that are specifically wanted, can more accurately be modified. 

The benefits of GMO’s are great, as are their downfalls. Benefits of GMO’s include:

-Enhanced taste and quality

-Less time to reach full ripeness.

-Increased nutrients and resistance to pests and herbicides.

Downfalls of GMO’s include:

-Human health effects and other unknown factors due to lack of research

-Potential environmental impact and loss of biodiversity

-Disturbing the natural cycle for organisms in the environment

One product of our everyday lives that we consume, which has been genetically modified is Wesson’s Canola Oil, the company being ConAgra. Canola oil is used to for a variety of different things, namely cooking. It is developed from the rapeseed plant, which is part of the mustard family of plants. The rapeseed plant is the genetically modified ingredient within canola oil which is hazardous when consumed by humans. The Monsato Company genetically modified rapeseed to be resistant to the effects of herbicides, such as Roundup, for use by farmers.

Links for reference:

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/gmfood.shtml

http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/gmfood/overview.php

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/05/02/gmo-alert-top-10-genetically-modified-foods-to-avoid-eating/

Per Andreas Ramberg

ASSIGNMENT #4 - WAITER, THERE'S A GENE IN MY SOUP!
Per Andreas Ramberg.

Kellogg’s is known to nearly every man and woman on earth, but what people don’t know is that they use quite a lot of GMO's (gen modified organisms) in their cereals.
Kellog’s Frosted Flakes, which I am eating right now, contains genetically engineered corn.
The bacteria they insert into the plants are called Bacillus thuringiensis and was discovered by Shigetane Ishiwatari in 1911 and the first company who used it in plants where Plant Genetic Systems from Belgia. It is used as a pesticide.

Sources:
http://opposingdigits.com/forums/post-62.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis
http://media.egotvonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/frosted-flakes.jpg?41ed4f

Mads Waatland Jakobsen

A gene in my cereal – Assignment #4, Mads Waatland Jakobsen

I often eat Kellogg’s Corn Flakes for breakfast, and it turns out, they use sugar from genetically engineered sugar beets (Beta vulgaris). That’s the case in US, not Norway as they don’t import GM products. The genetically modified sugar beet was created by Monsanto, to resist herbicides like Roundup, and is by far the most popular source for sugar in the US. The gene that makes sugar beets resistant to glyphosate (the ingredient in Roundup that kills weed) was originally taken from the GM maize gene zm-epsps, which was extracted from the common soil bacteria, Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain CP4. The trait gene in sugar beets from Monsanto is called cp4 epsps. 

cp4 epsps FMV e35S H7-1 Monsanto 2007

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1359109/GM-cornflakes-Fears-U-S-approve-new-engineered-maize.html

http://www.organicconsumers.org/kelloggs.cfm

 Jerry M. Green - Evolution of Glyphosate-Resistant Crop Technology -http://allenpress.com/pdf/wees_57.1_108_117.pdf Weed Science 2009 57:108–117