[Sca-cooks] FW: genetically engineereed foods

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

It's safe to say that almost any commercial processed-food product will 
contain some GMOs, unless it's specifically labeled "GMO-free" or 
something to that effect, or certified organic.  A huge proportion of 
the canola, corn and soy, as well as other ingredients, are genetically 
modified these days.

There was an interesting article in Well Being Journal just this month 
about GMOs.  A researcher has been trying for two years to get both hogs 
and cows to eat GM corn.  In every single trial, the animals would sniff 
the GM product and reject it without a bite, then eat the conventional 
product without a pause.  They did this with herds at several different 
farms.Also, mice wouldn't eat a bite of FlavrSavr tomatoes.  When they 
were forcefed the tomatoes through gastric tubes and stomach washes, 
several developed stomach lesions.  20% died within two weeks.  This was 
the final testing before they were approved for human consumption.

-Magdalena vander Brugghe

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Tara Sersen Boroson

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