Frankenfood
Ministers are trying to cover up secret briefings with GM companies hoping to push ‘Frankenfood’ on to dinner tables.-- Poulter, S. "Ministers covering secret meetings: GM food lobby Owen Paterson refused Freedom Information request about talks about 'Frankenfood'," web article. DailyMail. April 16, 2014.
Defined: (oxford dictionary) genetically engineered food (GM - genetically modified food)
My Take: Reducing pesticides on crops and producing cheap food for starving masses in underdeveloped lands are tooted benefits of 'Frankenfood.' Food safety advocates, however, challenge big ag like Monsanto and Syngenta to consider farmers' uptick in cost as they battle a surge in super bugs and resistant weeds related to genetically modified crops.
Sources:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2605570/Ministers-covering-secret-meetings-GM-food-lobby-Owen-Paterson-refused-Freedom-Information-request-talks-Frankenfood.html
http://grist.org/food/frankenfoods-good-for-big-business-bad-for-the-rest-of-us/
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/Frankenfood
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