Mac Sensei's Online English Lesson #31: Biotech Food, Genetic Engineering

Hello Students,
Today we are looking at food that has been genetically modified to be enhanced. I hope you learn something new about the future of food technology from this episode!

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Vocabulary:

1. exceeds - be greater in number or size than something.

2. manipulating - alter, edit, or move something.

3. unintended - not planned or meant.

4. malnutrition - lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, or not eating enough of the right things.

5. deficiency - a lack or shortage.

Discussion Questions:

1. Do you think Biotech foods are safer than organic foods?

2. Can biotech foods help feed the world?

3. If you had both options available, would you choose GE food or organic food?

4. When you choose food from the store, do you check where the food came from?

5. If you could combine two fruits into one special fruit, what would you like to create? (For example - A banana that tastes like a watermelon)