Read the following text and prepare one discussion question based on it. However, today some of the genetic modifications to food are on a more advanced level, such as creating golden rice that provides extra vitamin A to combat blindness and death in malnourished children, or breeding a new type of sweet potato that has extra beta-carotenes (which the body converts to vitamin A). A new kind of tomato was bred to resist rotting and give it a longer shelf life. Potatoes are bred to produce more starch. Soybeans, one of the most common processed-food ingredients, are also one of the most heavily modified food products. Soybeans have been genetically modified to resist disease and pests, or to produce more protein, vitamins, and fat.

Read the passage from a raisin in the sun. mama: lord have mercy, baby. you done gone and bought your grandmother a hat? travis (very proud): open it! she does and lifts out an elaborate, but very elaborate, wide gardening hat, and all the adults break up at the sight of it. ruth: travis, honey, what is that? travis (who thinks it is beautiful and appropriate): it's a gardening hat! like the ladies always have on in the magazines when they work in their gardens. beneatha (giggling fiercely): travis—we were trying to make mama mrs. miniver—not scarlett o'hara! mama (indignantly): what's the matter with you all! this here is a beautiful hat! (absurdly.) i always wanted me one just like it! which word or phrase from the text best supports the idea that the adults think the hat is inappropriate? “have mercy” (giggling fiercely) (indignantly) “what’s the matter”