What interests me is that most people don't know they're eating genetically-modified foods. Tofutti, Boca Burgers and Kashi were three companies singled out by protesters in Chicago. Read about it here.
Last November a proposition was on the ballot in California to require packaged foods to indicate if they contained gmos. Needless to say, a huge Monsanto marketing push helped the proposition fail.
But honestly, it had to fail. If you are eating packaged food in North America, you are eating gmos. Wheat, corn and soy are always genetically modified unless they specifically say organic or non-gmo. Plus, have you read a label recently that does not include the words "natural flavors?" These can be gmo. They can even be animal by-products from an animal fed gmo corn. Along with corn syrup, natural flavors are the hardest ingredients to avoid in packaged foods.
Can you imagine if all the foods you normally put in your shopping cart at Whole Foods or the local grocery store suddenly were labeled "contains gmo ingredients"? Consumers would freak out. Maybe that would be a good thing, but not for the grocery store managers who would be fielding all the complaints.
The only way to avoid gmos is to eat non-processed organic food. Like the foods I write about on this blog. The more processing involved in the food you eat, the more likely it is to contain organisms you might want to avoid.
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