Post by Ashropshirelady on Jun 7, 2013 14:03:42 GMT
Barbeque season is finally upon us, and the staple item at millions of outdoor family picnics around the nation will be golden cobs of plump corn, glistening with buttery glaze and bursting with the flavors of spring.
Even if fresh corn doesn’t whet your appetite, perhaps you’ll be surprised to discover that if you’ve eaten yogurt, ketchup, barbeque sauce, diet soda, farmed beef or poultry, fruit juice, salad dressing, breakfast cereal, tortilla chips, jam, honey roasted nuts, wraps, canned fruit, soup, baked goods, mayonnaise, candy, peanut butter, bread or even milk today, then you’ve already eaten a serving of corn and corn derivatives. In fact, you’ve most likely—and unknowingly—already eaten several servings of corn today.
Corn is one of the most widely produced, used and consumed foods in North America, by animals and humans alike. But the corn we are eating today is extremely different from the original, ancient vegetable that once nourished our ancestors long ago. The vast majority of modern-day corn planted in the U.S. – approximately 88% of it – has undergone extensive genetic modification (known as genetically modified organisms, or GMO). GMO corn is a crop that has been artificially engineered for agricultural warfare, designed to survive through lethal attacks of weed-killers and to murder marauding insects by destroying their intestines upon ingestion.
But while the North American governments continue to protect—and to even subsidize—the growth and consumption of GMO corn products, a growing body of research is revealing that these vegetable super soldiers aren’t just conquering the laws of nature. Studies on the effects of GMO corn are showing that these Franken-stalks are also quietly conquering our own health, and could possibly lie at the heart of growing mass-epidemics of illness, disease and cancer.
www.leanonlife.com/the-one-vegetable-you-should-not-be-eating/
Even if fresh corn doesn’t whet your appetite, perhaps you’ll be surprised to discover that if you’ve eaten yogurt, ketchup, barbeque sauce, diet soda, farmed beef or poultry, fruit juice, salad dressing, breakfast cereal, tortilla chips, jam, honey roasted nuts, wraps, canned fruit, soup, baked goods, mayonnaise, candy, peanut butter, bread or even milk today, then you’ve already eaten a serving of corn and corn derivatives. In fact, you’ve most likely—and unknowingly—already eaten several servings of corn today.
Corn is one of the most widely produced, used and consumed foods in North America, by animals and humans alike. But the corn we are eating today is extremely different from the original, ancient vegetable that once nourished our ancestors long ago. The vast majority of modern-day corn planted in the U.S. – approximately 88% of it – has undergone extensive genetic modification (known as genetically modified organisms, or GMO). GMO corn is a crop that has been artificially engineered for agricultural warfare, designed to survive through lethal attacks of weed-killers and to murder marauding insects by destroying their intestines upon ingestion.
But while the North American governments continue to protect—and to even subsidize—the growth and consumption of GMO corn products, a growing body of research is revealing that these vegetable super soldiers aren’t just conquering the laws of nature. Studies on the effects of GMO corn are showing that these Franken-stalks are also quietly conquering our own health, and could possibly lie at the heart of growing mass-epidemics of illness, disease and cancer.
www.leanonlife.com/the-one-vegetable-you-should-not-be-eating/
