MNN - Mother Nature Network

I don't eat cereal, I'd choose Nature's Path and probably go with Spelt Flakes, no GMOs in there because none of the ingredients have the potential to be GMO from the start. 3) In fact, even certified organic foods can be comprised of no more than 5 percent GMO ingredients. ~That's absolutely not true. Your article isn't footnoted at all, not very scientific of you. While USDA doesn't set ANY thresholds for inadvertent contamination, if it finds GE materials are being used intentionally you will lose organic certification. Organic food CANNOT be manufactured using genetically engineered ingredients. There is certainly no 5% threshold (if there is, again, please post a link). 4) If Prop 37 passed, you would be able to buy cornflakes without GMOs ~You already can, just not from Kellogg's unless you're importing UK Corn Flakes. 5) but you would never know if they were in your burrito at your favorite restaurant. ~You could if you ate at a Mexican Restaurant that offers burritos certified Non-GMO by the Non-GMO Project. There are restaurants in California already offering Non-GMO Project Verified items. 6) Seems a little leaky, doesn’t it? ~Your article? Absolutely. 7) Every product in our supermarket would need a GMO label, something manufactures would be nuts to include for the other 49 states, resulting in two differentiating product streams. The cost of this would be passed on to consumers. ~No it wouldn't because they wouldn't do it. Please give us a list of other products they've done this with? When the coloring of Pepsi/Coke was recently deemed carcinogenic in California did they slap a label on soda destined for CA and make a line for the other states without said label? Nope! Did they do the cheapest thing which would be just to add the label everywhere? Nope! They reformulated their products to remove the carcinogen so they didn't need a label anywhere. This could easily happen with GMOs too, look how quickly farmers stopped using GE potatoes when McDonalds, one of the largest buyers of potatoes, ordered their suppliers to use GE-free varieties, instantly. 8) Few people, including myself, are against giving more information to consumers. What I am against is using scare tactics and misinformation. Labeling something as a GMO does nothing but intimidate the purchaser. ~Really? Please show us how Diet Coke's sales plummeted from intimidated purchasers in Canada when Health Canada required "Contains Aspartame" to be on the front of the drink. You can't, because it didn't. 9) I am here to tell you that the seed biotechnology companies are more altruistic than you would believe. They are responsible for feeding the world and for helping make it profitable to be a farmer. They employ tens of thousands of people and support the entire food infrastructure of our great country. GMOs reduce the need for fertilizer, which in turn reduces our dependence on fossil fuels (most our nitrogen fertilizer is made using natural gas). GMOs also cut down on the need for pesticides and herbicides by engineering native means of plant defense. GMOs use water more efficiently and respond to heat and drought in a less dramatic fashion, which helps farmers cope with the changing climate. Our society is driving these changes, and it’s only fair that we give farmers the tools they need to endure a warming environment. ~Nonsense, all of the above is refuted by the Farming Systems Trial's 30-year report. While it showed that chemical farming had initial advantages, it quickly reversed. The organic (both animal and legume) farms had greater yields using less chemicals, less fertilizers, less insecticides, less herbicides, etc., and in drought conditions the yield advantage became even more apparent. There is nothing biotechnology has to show us that comes even close scientifically to the 30+ year FST at Rodale. 10) GMOs improve our health and nutrition. Third world countries benefit from increased amino acids in GMO rice that they couldn’t find elsewhere in their diets. Newly engineered tomatoes could one day help fight cancer. Don’t take my word for it, Google it and educate yourself. ~Current tomatoes fight cancer. Google it and educate yourself. GMOs improve Monsanto's bottom line, they don't help third world countries.

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truth about any of their products vs. our bodies? I must have been all of 11 years old when my grandfather - a small farmer - showed me how to graft plants. That was a far, far cry from what we're expected to put up and shut up about in our food supply now. Would we need cancer preventing or curing tomatoes if the environment we lived in wasn't more or less headed to hell in a speed boat? This article fails to persuade me. I have no way to know if the mods performed on my foods are perilous or not. No such distinction is being offered. I want to have a choice. It is a simple choice. GMO vs not GMO. Saying that GMO's are already too big to label doesn't strike me as a good reason to gobble them down if I can possibly avoid it.