标题：Emotional attitudes of young people completing secondary schools towards genetic modification of organisms (GMO) and genetically modified foods (GMF)
期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2014
卷号：21
期号：1
页码：205-211
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Objective. The objective of the study was recognition of the opinions of adolescents completing secondary schoolsconcerning genetically modified organisms and genetically modified food, especially the respondents’ emotional attitudetowards scientific achievements in the area of live genetically modified organisms.Material and method. The study covered a group of 500 school adolescents completing secondary school at the level ofmaturity examination. The study was conducted by the method of a diagnostic survey using a self-designed questionnaireform.Results. Knowledge concerning the possible health effects of consumption of food containing GMO among adolescentscompeting secondary schools is on a relatively low level; the adolescents examined ‘know rather little’ or ‘very little know’about this problem. In respondents’ opinions the results of reliable studies pertaining to the health effects of consumptionof GMO ‘rather do not exist’. The respondents are against the cultivation of GM plants and breeding of GM animals onown farm in the future. Secondary school adolescents considered that the production of genetically modified food meansprimarily the enrichment of biotechnological companies, higher income for food producers, and not the elimination ofhunger in the world or elimination of many diseases haunting humans.
