Without an organic dinner, surprisingly you may have eaten new foods.

Or a genetically modified food without even knowing about it.

That is because, in Canada and the U.S. the food industry and growers don’t have to let us know. With as much as 70% of the food now containing gmf or 30,000 products, I can only imagine we haven’t been told because we just might get a tad upset about it.

The genetically modified crops are supposed to handle drought better, or have more nutrients. Who knows, maybe one day you can get your daily dose of pharmaceuticals in your morning cereal.

Not really. You see, pretty much anything could be dreamed up and given a try. How about bananas that produce the human vaccine against hepatitis B? I found this promoted on the US government Human Genome Project site.

Or, what about Terminator seeds that are genetically altered to be infertile after the first harvest?

Currently the crops that are genetically modified are corn, soybeans, canola, alfalfa, tomatoes, wheat and cotton. Since we don’t need to be informed. And since the food processors may not even know, your families safest bet to healthy eating is organic food. Read the rest of this entry »