Frankenfoods Edit Meaning

1.

Genetically-modified food crops, often including the insertion of genetic material that cannot be found in nature. While we're assured they are safe, little testing goes into making sure this is true.

Many countries and consumers are wising up to the hazards inherent in frankenfoods.

See red_beard_neo

2.

Genetically modified crops, done so for the purpose of increasing overall yield, resistance to pests, and other reasons. Been around for awhile, yet nobody has grown an extra head or suffered cancers associated with it.

Frankenfood is a scare term used by European agricultural interests trying to take trade share from US growers; and also used by ignorant folks using it as a lame excuse for yet more yankbashing.