Seoul YWCA hosted a movie talk event with Seoul Y members. The movie <GMO OMG> tells us we are unwittingly experimented by GMOs whose risks and effects to our health and the environment are unknown. After the movie, Ms. Park Jun Kyeong working for Han Sal Lim Life Co-op was invited to talk about staus quo of GMO in Korea and do Q&A session regarding GMOs.
Seoul YWCA staffs participated in a training session to learn more about GMO. “Genetically Engineered Foods”, “Genetically modified organisms,” or GMOs, are organisms that have been created through application of transgenic, gene-splicing techniques that are part of biotechnology. These transgenic methods for moving genes around are also called “genetic engineering,” or GE. This relatively new science allows DNA (genetic material) from one species to be transferred into another species, creating transgenic organisms with combinations of genes from plants, animals, bacteria, and even viral gene pools. The mixing of genes from different species that have never shared genes in the past is what makes GMOs and GE crops so unique. It is impossible to create such transgenic organisms through traditional crossbreeding methods. In South Korea, labeling GMO law is not enacted yet, so many citizens don't care about what GMO i...
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