New Foods Role In Healthy EatingWithout 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. An exaggeration... 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.
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. This playing with mother nature isn't permitted in the growing and production of
certified organic foods.
Consider the amount of foods that are made from just corn or soybeans. You have the cooking oils, bread, cereal, noodles, soy, soy drinks, cornstarch, sauces. The list just goes on and on.
Anyone who tells you that new foods are the answer to hunger is lying to you. There is no way we could ever fathom all the possible variables that could occur as a result of this solution to world hunger. I would say that the experiment is on and the results won't be in for a generation or two. What you can do is to take your family out of this potential danger as much as possible. Take a sensible approach to healthy eating by choosing organic food as often as you can. If you enjoyed this article, please do sign up for my free Newsletter (e-zine) Organic Sensible Living. I will deliver updates right to your in-box. And better yet, each issue has a new article on healthy eating, healthy living. Just complete the form below and then click the Subscribe button.
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