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[Healthy Diet Podcast] Genetically modified food is not required to be labeled. Experiments on rats and pigs tell us GMO food is not good for us.

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http://www.geneticsandhealth.com [Geneticsandhealth.com] Genetics and Health » Genetically Modified Food: Pork containing omega-3 fatty acids, which may reduce the risk of heart disease, could be available in the future. Researchers at Harvard University are also working on cows that make omega-3’s in their milk and chickens that have the fatty acids in their eggs.

http://www.sustainabletable.org [Sustainabletable.org] Sustainable Table: The Issues: Genetic Engineering: About 200 million acres of farmland worldwide are now used to grow GE crops such as cotton, corn, soybeans and rice.iii The most common GE crops are Soybeans, which represent 63% of all GE crops, Corn (19%), Transgenic Cotton (13%) and Canola (5%).iv The majority of genetically modified crops grown today are engineered to be resistant to pesticides and/or herbicides so that they can withstand being sprayed with weed killer while the rest of the plants in the field die.

http://www.chefann.com [Chefann.com] Chef Ann Cooper : Renegade Lunch Lady » Blog Archive » The Quandry ...: The Enviropig is one of many new technologies that are putting environmentalists and organic-food proponents in a quandary: should they remain categorically opposed to genetically modified (GM) foods even at the expense of the environment? Pigs can also be modified to digest grasses and hay (as cows and sheep do), reducing the energy-intensive use of corn as pig feed.

Thecampaign.org[Thecampaign.org] The Campaign Blog » Blog Archive » Kraft is going non-GMO in China: One of the primary reasons these companies have decided to go GMO-free is that China requires the labeling of genetically engineered foods. In virtually every country in the world that require genetically engineered foods to be labeled, the companies choose to use non genetically engineered ingredients to avoid the labeling requirments.

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