GMO foods? Yes, that is what I said, in the form of a question, a couple years ago when I was told by friends about yet another category of food to avoid at the store.
It wasn’t enough that I had to be careful around the carbs, can the cholesterol, and forget the fat in my mid 20s when I lost 90 pounds – now I had to step around GMO food products. Gee whiz, it seemed like they were creeping all over the grocery store.
Now, as you may know, farmers have been modifying plants through cross-breeding for thousands of years to help their crops better resist pests and to allow for better yields. But what makes GM (genetically modified) plants different is the fact that their actual DNA is modified through genetic engineering – so that all pretty much sounds like something out of Frankenstein to me; GMO (genetically modified organism) foods derive from these GM plants
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