Avoiding GM Foods

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This is from a recent newsletter e-mail from Mercola.Com, Take Control of your Health:

How to Avoid GM Foods

Many of you probably don't understand just how ubiquitous GM foods are in the food chain.

The fact is that genetically modified foods are so prevalent in the United States that if you randomly pick an item off your grocery store's shelves, you have a 75 percent chance of picking a food with GM ingredients. This is because at least seven out of every 10 items have been genetically modified.

The True Food Shopping Guide is a great tool for helping you determine which brands and products contain GMO ingredients. It lists 20 different food categories that include everything from baby food to chocolate.

Here are four simple steps to decrease your consumption of GM foods as much as possible:

* Reduce or eliminate processed foods in your diet. The fact that 75 percent of processed foods contain GM ingredients is only one of the many reasons to stick to a whole foods diet.
* Read produce and food labels. Conventionally raised soybeans and corn make up the largest portion of genetically modified crops. Ingredients made from these foods include high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), corn flour and meal, dextrin, starch, soy sauce, margarine, and tofu.
* Buy organic produce. By definition, food that is certified organic must be free from all GM organisms, produced without artificial pesticides and fertilizers and from an animal reared without the routine use of antibiotics, growth promoters or other drugs. Additionally, grass-fed beef will not have been fed GM corn feed.
* Look at produce stickers. The PLU code on stickers for conventionally grown fruit consists of four numbers, organically grown fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number nine, and GM fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number eight.
For the full article go here.

I highly recommend signing up for his e-newsletter, along with Mike Adams', Natural News.
 
those websites do have useful news, and quite a bit of research can be found there.
i only eat organic veg and some fruit, and nuts, and a few lentils and rice, so i have been avoiding gm foods.
the trick now will be avoiding seriously toxic sprayed foods, as the gvt is going to aerially spray all over everything, including the organic crops and people's homes, to eradicate a moth that does no harm(they say it destroys crops) and which they can use these chemicals on due to the phony emergency status they placed on this. they are very eager to do this, and one would wonder why. it is enough to have to keep up with genetically modified food, and now this biochemical spray too!
mike adams has reported on it.http://www.naturalnews.com/022763.html
 
Poorer Communities

Unfortunately, many in the poorer communities do not have close access to fresh fruit or vegetable markets, only the "cheap" food grocery chains. Hopefully this information can help them make healthier food choices including the avoidance of foods with "high fructose corn syrup".
 
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