The Conscious Eater’s Guide to
GMOs
by Claire Hope Cummings
Choosing to eat a healthy diet
can be a challenge, especially
when it comes to sorting out
w
orldwide, GMO crops are
grown on about 280 million
acres, almost entirely in corn
and soybeans grown for animal feed,
the controversies surrounding
industrial chemicals and plant-based
fuels. The main thing to know about
genetically engineered foods.
GMOs is that they are made by the
chemical industry, for the chemical
Genetically Modified
industry, and sold to farmers for weed
and pest control.
organisms (GMos), were
We now eat GMOs in our break-
fast cereals and corn chips because
first grown commercially in
in the United States the industrial
agriculture system mixes crops from
the united States in 1996. many sources during production and
manufacturing. GMOs are now in just
Now, the Center for Food about anything made with corn, soy
or canola, as well as oil from cotton-
Safety reports that GMos can
seed. Most of the meat, eggs and dairy
be found in about 75 percent of the
products we eat come from animals
fed GMOs. The only fresh GMO food
processed foods sold in our local
being sold right now is a mushy papaya
from Hawaii; the GMO spud was a dud
supermarkets.
and other fresh GMOs have failed in
the marketplace.
Collier / Lee Counties
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