GM food

Watch the video and fill in the blanks.

1. Farmers in the past selected plants that were easier to pick and to cook.
2. New crops inherited the benefitial characteristics.
3. Farmers found that when the DNA was accidentally altered improvements happened.
4. Nowadays scientists can change DNA at specific spots.
5. These changes are specially useful for disease resistance.
6. We now have crops which need less water and fertiliser.
7. After decades consuming genetically engineered food no one has got ill.
8. If we design and test each product, there is no problem.
9. Supermarkets and big seed companies have offered us a variety of nutritious.

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Leave a comment: What do you think of these products?

Do you know what you eat?

Watch the following video and complete the blanks

1. The last years have seen more changes in our nutrition than in the previous 10,000
2. Modern agriculture has focused on growing faster, fatter, bigger and cheaper
3. Much of our industrial food basically consists of rearrangements of corn
4. You can get 2 hamburgers for the price of a vegetable
5. It's unbelievable that meat  without any labelling can be purchased
6. The average consumer feels powerless
7. There is proof that an industry's irresponsible behaviour can be changed
8. Consumers have the power to get companies to produce good wholesome food

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Eating in the dark

Eating in the dark? Would you dare?

Eating in the Dark

Watch the video and say if these statements are true or false

1. Onoir is a French restaurant
2. You are served by blind people
3. It takes 2 weeks to get a reservation
4. Someone in the owner's family was blind
5. His friends and family were the first ones to eat in the dark
6. There are 3 restaurants in the US
7. The waiter tells you where the cutlery is on the table
8. This kind of business helps promote the sightless world
9. Some people dislike the feeling of helplessness
10. Even the bar is in the dark

Answers written in white: 1 F, 2 T, 3 T, 4 F, 5 T, 6 F, 7 F, 8 T, 9 F, 10 F

Chinese food therapy

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