How to avoid GMO's

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How do you avoid GM products? Some people might say it's impossible, for so many people don't even know what they are eating nowadays, but here are some ways to avoid GMO's:

1. Buy as much organic foods as possible- Organic means it doesn't come from very far from where you live, and it is better for the environment and yourself. This means that your food is very, very likely, not GM'd.

2. Buy foods labelled "Non-GMO"- this reason is pretty obvious. Some companies will put these labels on their foods.

3. Avoid non-organic foods like beans, peanuts, canola, cottonseed, sugar cane, papayas and soy. Sorry to all those soybean consumers... but some of your products might be GM'd. Check again! 

4. Avoid non-organic dairy products

5. Avoid GM "offspring" like high fructose corn syrup or soy protein, etc. 

6. Grow your own food- tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. Last summer, I grew a few cucumber plants and the good thing about this, is I know that they are NON-GM'd cucumbers! Plus it's cheaper and tastes great too! 

Follow these steps that you might be able to sustain a low GM-food life. :D

-gmfoodconcerns


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Monsanto

This is probably the one of the biggest controversies of all time in the GM food industry. For those who do not know what "Monsanto" is, it is a company that is about a bunch of farmers that have a pledge to "produce more food. To produce more with less, conserving resources like soil and water. And to improve lives." as it says in their official website. And how do they do this? They do this by "selling seeds, traits developed through biotechnology, and crop protection chemicals. In other words, genetically modifying food and pesticide things. They are the world's leading producer of herbicides called Roundup and GE seeds. Of course, many people think is is wrong. Monsanto has been sued many, many times for damaging the health of many people through pollution and poisoning. There was a report that was released in June 2011 that linked the herbicide that Roundup is made of, glyphosate to birth defects in frog and chicken embryos.

The Monsanto GM's are made to be resistant to herbicides, Roundup. Some people are afraid that the herbicide-resistant genes will spread to other plants and that they will be resistant to the herbicides.

For all you soybean consumers, here is something you should be aware of. One of the GM foods that they (Monsanto) sell are genetically modified soybeans, called Roundup Ready. It is grown and sold in South Africa yields by 173% over 5 years until 2005 and soya production by 75%.  This made lots of money for farmers in Argentina, so they decided to sell just these GM soybeans. They relied on this as their only produce. Then, in 2004, a question came up about the actually benefits of the soybeans: are they safe? Some scientists say that growing Roundup Ready soybeans can add up to many consequences. This caused many people to stop buying RR and the farmers became bankrupt.
Farmers need to rotate crops so that the soil won't get damaged, and overtime the soil can get back to the normal form. However, the farmers did not  rotate crops because they just grew RR soybeans and the soil became damaged. Monsanto "claimed" that the damage of the soil and use of pesticides was not caused by the RR soy.

More soon, and please comment about what do you think. Stop Monsanto, or are they doing the right thing?
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