In Western Europe in particular, consumers are worried that GM food will make them ill. From the start people said "We don't want it". Roland Pease In Europe, for example, there have been a number of food health scares, whether it's about poorly preserved food that'are very concerned about what the food they're eating is going do to them. And when you say, well actually we've engineered into this plant something which makes the plant resistant to herbicide, people want to know what is that thing that you've got in there? Is it actually in the part of the plant that I'm eating and is it actually going to affect me? There don't seem to be any experiments which have shown any serious health effects. VOCABULARY food health scares - poplašné zprávy o zdraví škodlivých potravinách poorly preserved - špatně uchovávané/konzervované lethal - smrtelný stomach upsets - zkažený žaludek foot and mouth - slintavka a kulhavka experiments - pokusy health effects - vliv na zdraví
In Western Europe in particular, consumers are worried that GM food will make them ill. From the start people said "We don't want it". Roland Pease In Europe, for example, there have been a number of food health scares, whether it's about poorly preserved food that'are very concerned about what the food they're eating is going do to them. And when you say, well actually we've engineered into this plant something which makes the plant resistant to herbicide, people want to know what is that thing that you've got in there? Is it actually in the part of the plant that I'm eating and is it actually going to affect me? There don't seem to be any experiments which have shown any serious health effects. VOCABULARY food health scares - poplašné zprávy o zdraví škodlivých potravinách poorly preserved - špatně uchovávané/konzervované lethal - smrtelný stomach upsets - zkažený žaludek foot and mouth - slintavka a kulhavka experiments - pokusy health effects - vliv na zdraví
Nejzávažnější problémy, se kterými se lidstvo v novém miléniu musí zabývat, například bezpečnost, geneticky modifikované produkty a samozřejmě globalizace.
