What's basic is what's essential, at the root or base of things. If you've got a basic understanding of differential equations, you can handle simple problems but might get tripped up by more difficult ones. You can also speak of the basics.
This means that we are consuming even more GMOs than we realize. Some foods that we ingest on a daily basis that contain GM ingredients are dairy products food additives such as enzymes and flavorings, meat, eggs, honey, and pollen in the air contain traces of GM materials (Smith, âGenetic Rouletteâ 258).
The Environmental Justice Foundation elaborates more on the world wide negative effects of pesticide use in cotton. Cotton (83%) is one of the top four GMO crops produced in the world which includes soy (89%), canola (75%) and corn (61%). GMO cotton production ranks ninth in global crop production. On an average, 90 percent of U.S. cotton in 2010 was genetically engineered, according to a USDA survey.