GMOs In Our Food

      A GMO is a genetically modified organism, and is a organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. GMOs are also present in many commonly used products and foods. You don't even have to search hard to find GMO foods on your supermarket shelves, over 85 percent of corn and soy grown in the U.S. comes from seeds who DNA has been rejiggered (to increase yields), and those crops are in many processed foods including bread, salad dressing and soda. 

    Now the major problem is that research has shown time and time again that these GMOs are not only unhealthy but deadly. In a recent study using GMO corn, the rats developed huge tumors, experienced organ damage, and premature death.

On Saturday May 25th,2013 in Chicago, we protested a company named Monsanto,there were also protests against Monsanto happen around the world at the same time. Monsanto is a agriculture company that is at the center of the GMO debate, and the main enemy in this fight. Monsanto is the worst of the worst in yielding and producing GMO crops, and foods. Monsanto also has ties with the government and is trying to get laws passed that they don't have to label products with GMOs. So we won't even know when we are eating foods that could cause us cancer and even death. Please contact your state representatives so this law does not get passed, and so that we have the right to know whats in our foods. There are also ways to eat foods to avoid GMOs and all the health risks that come with them.

Eat GMO Free:

• Buy foods that are labels 100% organic. The US and Canadian government do not allow manufacturers to label food 100% organic if that food has been genetically modified or been fed genetically modified feed. 
• Know Fruits and Veggies Label Numbers If it is a 4-digit number, the food is conventionally produced. If it is a 5-digit number starting with an 8, it is GMO. If it is a 5 digit number beginning with a 9, it is organic.
• Only Purchase beef that is 100% grass-fed. Most of the cattle in the US are grass-fed but spent the last part of life in feedlots eating GMO corn. If the cattle is 100% grass-fed they aren't fed GMO corn.
• Shop Local, most of the GMO foods in the US come from large, industrial farms. Shopping at farmers markets,and co-ops will help to avoid GMO foods.
• Grow it Yourself, when you grow your own food you know exactly what you are feeding you and your family.