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AIMS Confused about the GM debate? Try this quiz... TASK Select one of the four possible answers for each question from those available (to deselect a choice click the tick next to it).
1. How many millions of hectares of GM crops were sown world-wide in 2002? Less than the size of the UK 1 - 2 times the size of the UK 2 - 3 times the size of the UK 3 - 4 times the size of the UK	2. The most common GM crops are those that have been engineered to: Produce higher yields Grow in adverse conditions [e.g. drought] Provide greater nutritional value Be tolerant to weedkiller
3. How much GM content can be included in conventional foods before they have to be labelled as GM? 0.5% 1.0% 1.5% 2.0%	4. What % of GM crops is estimated to be directed at resource-poor farmers to help alleviate hunger? Less than 1% 1-10% 10-20% 20-30%
5. In 2001 91% of all GM crops world-wide were grown from whose seeds? Monsanto Syngenta DuPont Bayer-Aventis	6. Which of these food companies has not rejected the use of GM crops in their foods? Kraft Heinz Frito-Lay Gerber
7. What is the terminator gene? Gene to kill insects Arnold Schwarzenegger's trousers Gene that produces infertile seeds Gene that causes terminal illness	8. What % of world total GM crops is grown in the USA? 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80%
9. What is the combined annual sales of seeds/biotech & agrochemicals of the 6 biggest biotech companies equivalent to? GDP Kenya 12,140 million US$ GDP Lebanon 17,294 million US$ GDP Tunisia 21,169 million US$ GDPs Jordon + Fiji + Sri Lanka = 27,669 mill US$	10. Who takes responsibility and pays for harm caused to convential crops and the environment from GM contamination? Biotech Companies Society Farmers who grow GM Seed Merchants
11. Which United Nations Protocol deals with Biosafety? Montreal Cartagena Aarhus Geneva	12. How much of the global market in pesticides do the big 6 Biotech companies control? 50 - 60% 60 - 70% 70 - -80% 80 - 90%
You have scored out of a possible 12 *Sources include:* Genewatch Friends of the Earth 'The Ecologist' July/August 2003 GDP figures from World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/GDP.pdf © ep@w Publishing Company Ltd. 2000 2003 Edition