Join Amy Todisco as she takes you through a brief tour of a typical American kitchen and offers tips on how to make yours a healthier haven. No one is regulating genetically engineered organisms adequately or properly testing them for safety. Any health risks will only be discovered by trial and error-we, the consumers, are the guinea pigs. Before 1995 there were no genetically modified crops grown for commercial sale. In Monsanto's version of reality, they depict biotechnology as just another example in a long line of human modifications of food, like fermentation.
Genes are the blueprints for every part of an organism.
Genetic engineering is the process of combining genes from one species with genes from another species. In other words breeders bring genetic qualities from anywhere in nature to another unrelated species. Scientists spliced the genes for redness into the petunia. Everything seemed to be going well in the field of red petunias until a hot spell struck and all the pigment in the petunia petals mysteriously disappeared. Scientists are pushing genetic material across natural boundaries.