The True Food Network has, on their website, a chart showing which popular brands of foods contain GMO (genetically modified organisms) and which don't in 20 different categories of foodstuffs. The bottom line: All/most the popular food brands of packaged and processed foods (as of 2003, the date of the research/chart) contain GMOs. Since the chart is five years old, it won't be entirely accurate (they're working on an update). But wouldn't we suspect the updated chart to contain even more GMO-tainted products instead of less?
The only way to avoid GMOs in food is to buy organic, as all USDA-certified-organic prepared/processed foods are supposed to be GMO-free. The BEST way to avoid GMOs is to limit your shopping to the organic products (required to be grown with organically-produced seed, though that's not always the case) in the fresh produce section of the grocery store. Even if organic produce isn't grown with certified organic seed (sometimes the quantities of organic seeds needed by commercial organic growers isn't available, though that is rapidly changing), it is at least non-GMO seed.
The VERY BEST way to get the best food possible is to grow it yourself in your own YardFarm -- or buy it from a neighborhood farmer or grower. When the only profit motive attached to food production is the profit of good health, there is every incentive to grow it as naturally as possible. (Note: That's not an anti-profit statement. Nature demonstrates the purest form of profit motive by returning net-thousands of tomato seeds from the investing [planting] of only one. It's just to say that the mix of fallen human nature and profits has caused more than one well-intended person to compromise -- and organic farmers are not exempt from that temptation.)
The jury is still out on the impact of GMO foodstuffs on human beings, though a grizzly, bizarre new skin condition that has the CDC stumped may be (emphasize: not proven) linked to GMOs.
Think of the percentage of the American population that blindly goes down the aisles of grocery stores buying, and then consuming, foods that have been genetically modified. Thankfully, most of these products are banned in Europe, but America hasn't been as wise.
[Thanks to Mercola.com for some of the above links.]
The only way to avoid GMOs in food is to buy organic, as all USDA-certified-organic prepared/processed foods are supposed to be GMO-free. The BEST way to avoid GMOs is to limit your shopping to the organic products (required to be grown with organically-produced seed, though that's not always the case) in the fresh produce section of the grocery store. Even if organic produce isn't grown with certified organic seed (sometimes the quantities of organic seeds needed by commercial organic growers isn't available, though that is rapidly changing), it is at least non-GMO seed.
The VERY BEST way to get the best food possible is to grow it yourself in your own YardFarm -- or buy it from a neighborhood farmer or grower. When the only profit motive attached to food production is the profit of good health, there is every incentive to grow it as naturally as possible. (Note: That's not an anti-profit statement. Nature demonstrates the purest form of profit motive by returning net-thousands of tomato seeds from the investing [planting] of only one. It's just to say that the mix of fallen human nature and profits has caused more than one well-intended person to compromise -- and organic farmers are not exempt from that temptation.)
The jury is still out on the impact of GMO foodstuffs on human beings, though a grizzly, bizarre new skin condition that has the CDC stumped may be (emphasize: not proven) linked to GMOs.
Think of the percentage of the American population that blindly goes down the aisles of grocery stores buying, and then consuming, foods that have been genetically modified. Thankfully, most of these products are banned in Europe, but America hasn't been as wise.
[Thanks to Mercola.com for some of the above links.]
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