GMO Food

GMO Food

I look for the “contains no GMOs label” especially on corn chips.  One of my favorite grocer stores, Trader Joe’s will not carry products that are GMOs.

You can pretty much assume that all corn, soy bean, cotton, and canola (rape seed as it is known in Europe) are GMO products.  Monsanto is now working on GMO alfalfa, wheat and sugar beets.  Forty plants like tomatoes and cantaloupes, according the FDA, have already completed Federal requirements to enter the market place.

Because the US subsidizes corn and soybeans production they are consequently very inexpensive to use in human and animal food manufacturing.  Who would guess that corn would be in your Twinkie?  Some variation of corn and soy are in virtually all baked goods, processed food and even in our medications/vitamins, in forms of corn syrup, oil, corn starch, fillers etc.

The powerful Monsanto lobbying arm was able to bypass all government requirements for honest consumer labeling of GMO products.  A top Monsanto executive was quoted as saying “If GMO products had to be labeled, no one would buy them” and Europe agrees.   Europe insists that GMO foods be labeled and has banned  most GMO foods sighting overwhelming evidence from numerous independent studies that GMO foods are detrimental to our health.  Monsanto’s studies assert the risks are minimal.