Genetically modified food has it been in your body?
If you have ever bought those vine ripened tomatoes that look super red and pretty in those fancy plastic containers you have eaten gm food. Those tomatoes originate from flavr savr the first FDA approved gm food.
The Flavr Savr tomato ripens on the vine – resulting in fuller flavor. It is modified so that it remains firm after harvesting. A modification of this gm food is still in the market.
You think it ends in tomatoes? Most soybeans, cotton, corn and canola in the US are GM in one way or another. Unlike organic, and treated foods gm food DO NOT need labels.
The soybean has been gm with DNA from leeches to give it the chewier consistency. That is why those veggie burgers all those health nuts like have the consistency of meat.
GM Disaster...
The tryptophan disaster in the end of the 1980-ies and beginning of 1990-ies killed 37 and permanently disabled 1.500 people in the US in a very painful disease called eosonophil myalgia syndrome (EMS). It was caused by one or more extremely poisonous substances present in a tryptophan food supplement, which was produced by genetically engineered bacteria.
GM Benefits...
GM has produced crops that are resilient to bacteria and insects. Most genetic modifications benefit the farmer not the consumer.
Crops...
Some GM crops are sugar beets, oilseed, carnations, chicory, cotton, maize, melon, papaya, potato, rice, soybeans, sunflowers and tomatoes.
Final Thoughts...
34,000 products in the US and CANADA use some form of GM food as an ingredient.
