How To Cut GMO Foods Out of Your Life

Article excerpt from A Month Without Monsanto, published 8.26.10 by YES! Magazine, via CommonDreams.org

Author April Dávila wondered what it would take to cut the GMO giant out of her family’s life. She found that Monsanto was far more entrenched in our food supply than she’d ever realized.
“Unfortunately, with the exception of a few national brands (check out Annie’s, [...]

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How Processed Foods Make You Fat and Sick

Why this rant about processed foods?

Humans have been processing their food in various ways for thousands of years, right? Freezing, drying, preserving and canning come to mind.

So what’s the problem? I recently sampled a brand of veggie burger which shall remain anonymous as there isn’t much to choose between the various brands.
I found the veggie burger [...]

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How To Avoid GMOs In Your Food

Message For Savvy Vegetarian:
I am fanatical about eating only non-gmo foods. I’ve heard there are a few foods one has to be careful about: potatoes, tomatoes, soy, yellow squash, corn, canola oil. Are there others?
A friend recently told me there is a problem with strawberries–they may be genetically modified.
Could you please tell me what you [...]

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