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3) Food safety
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Explores the issues surrounding food safety by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro/con format. Features articles that express various perspectives on this topic.
10) Food safety
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Presents varying perspectives on the issue of food safety, exploring the current U.S. system, food technologies, and unsafe foods.
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How are food producers able to stock supermarket shelves with certain goods no matter what time of year it is or what the climate? In this program, Jimmy Doherty investigates mushrooms, processed ham slices, and artificially ripened bananas, and goes to a Scottish salmon farm to see how it supplies so much of this fish.
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To many scientists, gene technology is just another agricultural tool to help us grow bigger and better crops and livestock. But to others, like environmentalists and consumer advocates, the genetic manipulation of the plants and animals we eat poses huge risks that might not be worth taking. This program explores both sides of this controversial debate as it highlights specific ways in which genes have been manipulated to alter a plant's or animal's...
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Genetically modified foods have been around for decades. Created by altering the DNA of one organism through the introduction of genes from another, they are mainly found in processed foods that use corn, soybeans, and sugar beets, and in feed given to farm animals that people later consume. Supporters argue that genetic modification can make food more flavorful, nutritious, and abundant and enables plants to fight disease, resist pests, and survive...