STUDENT A's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)
(1) | What does GM mean? |
(2) | Why are scientists trying to develop GM crops? |
(3) | Do you think GM food is safe to eat? |
(4) | How do you think scientists can be sure about the safety of GM food when they’ve had so few years to test it? |
(5) | How might growing GM crops damage the environment? |
(6) | What do you think of GM tomatoes that have a stronger tomato taste? |
(7) | Would you be happy buying GM apples the size of melons? |
(8) | Do you think GM food will solve the world's food shortages? |
(9) | If GM crops are resistant to pests and those pests become extinct, could this seriously harm the food chain? |
(10) | If GM crops mix with natural crops, they could form hybrid crops and damage wildlife. Is this OK? |
STUDENT B's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)
(1) | GM food has been called ‘Frankenfood’, after Frankenstein’s monster. What do you think of this name? |
(2) | Some say millions of bees in the US are dying because of the small changes GM crops make to nature. What do you think of this? |
(3) | What do you think of GM bananas that contain vaccines against diseases? |
(4) | Do you think countries like Britain are right to ban GM food? |
(5) | If “you are what you eat,” might we change with a GM food diet? |
(6) | Do you think it’s important to label food as containing GM crops? |
(7) | Some GM food has animal genes. What do you think of this? |
(8) | Do you think we’ll be eating 100% GM food one day? |
(9) | What do you think of calorie-free GM junk food? |
(10) | What more would you like to know about GM food? |