Frankenfoods Eaten Unknowingly by US Consumers

If you live in America, you've probably eaten genetically modified food. Today, roughly 75 percent of U.S. processed foods — boxed cereals, other grain products, frozen dinners, cooking oils and more — contain some genetically modified, or GM, ingredients, said Stephanie Childs of the Grocery Manufacturers of America. Even if you've managed to stay away from the processed genetically modified foods by buying organic - if you eat meat you're still eating genetically modified foods: "More than 80 percent of the soy and 40 percent of the corn raised in this country is a GM variety. Global plantings of biotech crops - mostly corn and soybeans and much of it for animal feed - grew to about 200 million acres last year, about two-thirds of it in the United States. "

What's the problem with genetically modified foods you ask? Click here for some more info. Or visit the Organic Consumers Association. How do you avoid genetically modified foods? Here's one way...

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