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🗓️ 11 February 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
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GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) are getting a lot of attention these days. Do GMOs represent "better living through science" or are they "frankenfoods" that have long-term ill-effects that we don't even know about? While the truth is not yet fully known, find out the bet that Sal, Adam and Justin are making with their own personal health.
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0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
0:06.0 | Mind, hop, mind, hop with your hosts. |
0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
0:13.0 | Alright, welcome back to Mind Pump. |
0:16.0 | This is a fitness comedy, awesome show. |
0:19.0 | Go to Mind Pump Radio.com, we got free workouts. |
0:22.0 | Actually, what you'll find on there are our last workouts or samples of what we did last. |
0:27.0 | And we also got some programs on there. I have my NOBES 6-pack formula. |
0:30.0 | That's a workout program designed to develop a 6-pack abs. |
0:34.0 | You guys have your nutrition survival guide? |
0:38.0 | Boom. Yeah, it's a basic starter kit for nutrition and what to focus on and really had to approach it in a safe and healthy way. |
0:47.0 | Fantastic. So on that note, I wanted to talk about a very controversial subject. |
0:53.0 | It's actually controversial, not just in fitness and health, I mean, it's controversial all over the place. |
0:58.0 | I want to talk about genetically modified organisms, or as most people know them by the acronym GMOs. |
1:05.0 | GMOs. GMOs. So let's, I want to start by explaining what a GMO is or what a genetically modified organism is, or in this particular case what we're referring to. |
1:13.0 | Humans have been modifying food for a very, very long time. |
1:16.0 | So we've been crossbreeding things. We've been irradiating certain foods to cause certain products to come out. |
1:23.0 | But GMOs are unique in the sense that we take individual genes and insert them in a laboratory into a food to give it a particular trait or benefit. |
1:34.0 | So to give you an example, they'll make GMO corn, which is probably the biggest, one of the biggest products out there that's GMO. |
1:43.0 | And it's designed to withstand very, very heavy doses of herbicides called glyphosate. |
1:51.0 | You might know one of them by its brand name Roundup. |
1:56.0 | So they designed these plants to take these heavy loads so you could spray all this herbicide on them so that they don't die, but the weeds do. |
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