Besides growing my own food, is there a way to avoid feeding my family GMO's?

I am uncomfortable feeding my family food that is genetically modified,if I can help it. However, I have also heard that even some "organic" milk is GM, also. I'm soooooo confused!

How do I know who is telling the truth? ( ie. The Constant Gardner) Asked by readtolive 43 months ago Similar questions: growing food avoid feeding family GMO's Science.

Similar questions: growing food avoid feeding family GMO's.

I don't think there is any way to avoid 'enhanced' food It is all a matter of definition, but you can bet that all food you eat is 'modified'. Even in history, food was constantly 'filtered' to enhance higher revenue, better taste, and thus higher income. Chickens are not selected on whether they would survive in the wild (the old Darwinian way), but based on how much edible meat they produce.So, the chickens become larger and larger, to such a level, that they can hardly stand on their feet.

Selection, special (hormom enhanced) foods, and genetic engineering are all different levels of interferance with nature. Further, real genetically 'enhanced' animals and crops have already infiltrated our entire foodchain, so even when growing your own food would still not ensure you would be able to avoid GMO's. The confusion arises from the definition of GMO, and whether food is influenced by GMOs.

An example: if grass is genetically altered to grow faster, that grass is clearly 'GM' influenced. But, what about the cow that eats the grass? Is that cow also genetically 'enhanced'?

Most engineers would say 'no', but the cow might actually also start to grow faster, because of the altered grass. And then: What about the humans that eat the cow? Are they Genetically enhanced?

Same question. Another issue: what is worse, genetically engineering food, or use hormonic stimulation? As an example: I am Dutch, and Dutch youngsters are getting 15 cm longer than their parents, and this has been going on for some generations now.

Could this be influenced by eating meat from cows that have received grow hormons? Probably.So, maybe GMOs are not that much worse than enhanced feeding patterns. Just different.

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1 I am 99.99% sure that anything labeled 'organic' is required to NOT contain any GMO. As far as corruption, there is no way (as a consumer) to know if the company is lying. Soy is one of the most commonly genetically modified crop, so anything that has soy in it (most of the American processed food supply) is a good place to start going organic to avoid GMO.

I am 99.99% sure that anything labeled 'organic' is required to NOT contain any GMO. As far as corruption, there is no way (as a consumer) to know if the company is lying. Soy is one of the most commonly genetically modified crop, so anything that has soy in it (most of the American processed food supply) is a good place to start going organic to avoid GMO.

2 Food has been "genetically modified" since the beginning of farming and raising animals. Save the best grains, cross-pollinate different fruits, breed the prize steer - you're genetically modifying the next generation to have different traits. While there might some day be negative repercussions to any of the various things we do to our food, it still has to be safe to eat.

There really isn't much to worry about - it's mostly hype created by people who don't know what they're talking about. This user has been banned from Askville.

2 Food has been "genetically modified" since the beginning of farming and raising animals. Save the best grains, cross-pollinate different fruits, breed the prize steer - you're genetically modifying the next generation to have different traits. While there might some day be negative repercussions to any of the various things we do to our food, it still has to be safe to eat.

There really isn't much to worry about - it's mostly hype created by people who don't know what they're talking about.

Food has been "genetically modified" since the beginning of farming and raising animals. Save the best grains, cross-pollinate different fruits, breed the prize steer - you're genetically modifying the next generation to have different traits. While there might some day be negative repercussions to any of the various things we do to our food, it still has to be safe to eat.

There really isn't much to worry about - it's mostly hype created by people who don't know what they're talking about.

OrangeApple replied to post #2: 3 I really have to disagree mightycow. Cross-pollinating is very different from extracting genes from non-related organisms (like bacteria) and using recombinant DNA technology to inject it into a food (like soy or corn) that ends up UNLABELED in a huge percentage of the processed food on our grocery store shelves. And regarding your statement, "While there might some day be negative repercussions to any of the various things we do to our food, it still has to be safe to eat."

It is true that most people will probably not keel over and die when they put food from our current grocery store shelves in the mouths, it is not unlikely that there will be negative repercussions of some of our high tech foods reflected in long term health. While you can't live in a bubble, I think it is prudent of READTOLIVE to want to know how to avoid GMO products. While the government is 'rigorously testing' all of these GMO products, without conclusive results that they are 'sufficiently harmful', I for one think that we should have a choice about whether we want our families to be part of the experiment.

The main health risks, according to the world health organization are allergenicity, gene transfer (from the recombinant genes in the soy to our bodies which is a candidate theory for colon cancers among others and "outcrossing" which means that the GMO plants may extend past their growing areas and contaminate the entire food supply, thus endangering our health IF they decide that GMO needs to be banned for health risks. who.int/foodsafety/publications/biotech/... .

I really have to disagree mightycow. Cross-pollinating is very different from extracting genes from non-related organisms (like bacteria) and using recombinant DNA technology to inject it into a food (like soy or corn) that ends up UNLABELED in a huge percentage of the processed food on our grocery store shelves. And regarding your statement, "While there might some day be negative repercussions to any of the various things we do to our food, it still has to be safe to eat."

It is true that most people will probably not keel over and die when they put food from our current grocery store shelves in the mouths, it is not unlikely that there will be negative repercussions of some of our high tech foods reflected in long term health. While you can't live in a bubble, I think it is prudent of READTOLIVE to want to know how to avoid GMO products. While the government is 'rigorously testing' all of these GMO products, without conclusive results that they are 'sufficiently harmful', I for one think that we should have a choice about whether we want our families to be part of the experiment.

The main health risks, according to the world health organization are allergenicity, gene transfer (from the recombinant genes in the soy to our bodies which is a candidate theory for colon cancers among others and "outcrossing" which means that the GMO plants may extend past their growing areas and contaminate the entire food supply, thus endangering our health IF they decide that GMO needs to be banned for health risks. who.int/foodsafety/publications/biotech/....

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