Americans To Eat 1+ Billion Pounds of GMO Foods On Superbowl Sunday
This year, Super Bowl fans are expected to break previous records in consuming over 1 billion pounds of GMO-laden snack foods — with the vast majority of these individuals still completely in the dark over what they’re truly consuming in their food (even beyond GMOs).
In what amounts to a nuclear bomb of potato chips, pizza, chicken wings, and fast food, the numbers are now in on the amount of food expected to be consumed within the 24 hour period that is Super Bowl XLIX Sunday. With over 1,600 orders per hour expected to roll into Pizza Hut alone, here are the astonishing consumption estimates on just the top contenders:
- 1.2 billion chicken wing servings (enough to circle the Grand Canyon 120 times according to the National Chicken Council)
- 11.2 million pounds of potato chips (usually laced with the recently renamed high-fructose corn syrup, found to contain mercury and proven to be more toxic than even regular table sugar)
- 8.2 million pounds of tortilla chips (around 88% of corn or more is genetically modified)
- 48 million take out and fast food meals
- 11 million slices of pizza, specifically from Domino’s alone
- 100 million pounds of avocados (for guacamole)
And to put these numbers into perspective, it would take 222,792 football fields of farmland just to grow the corn, potatoes, and avocados necessary to fuel this single Super Bowl snack day. But here’s another statistic that may shock you: with the 1.2 billion chicken wings eaten, that’s enough chicken wings to circle the Grand Canyon a whopping 120 times. All in all, it takes 312.5 million chickens just to meet the demand.
While mainstream news is reporting on these statistics purely to demonstrate the mass appeal of this year’s Super Bowl, the true concerning message surrounds the reality that millions of people will be indulging in mass amounts (an average of 2,000 calories during game day) of processed food thanks to slick marketing by mega food and beverage giants that want to ensure they force their GMO-laden products on you and your family.
Check out how our staple crops have been genetically modified to such a degree that you are almost certain to be chomping into some GMOs with each bite:
There’s nothing wrong with celebrating the Super Bowl, or enjoying some snack foods — the true travesty is that these mega food corporations are loading your favorite foods with mercury-laden high-fructose corn syrup, GMOs, artificial flavors, and a whole list of other toxic additives.
The solution? Secure your organic Super Bowl snacks instead and avoid these fillers, additives, and GMOs. That way, you don’t have to give up the chips, guacamole, and even chicken wings during this time of year.
I won’t be eating any of it!
I hear ya!! We are cooking of a huge pot of greens (from our organic garden), organic orange yams, and a pork butt! The butt is not as healthy but it’s been in my freezer for 6 months. I figured it was time!!
If your pork butt came from a pastured hog, there’s nothing unhealthy about it. Make some green chili or pulled pork with that bad boy and chow down.
I’ve just read on Global Research that chemicalsused in pesticides have been found in Kelloggs corn products – no more flakes for me.
Ever.
Well, if 88% of our corn is now GMO, this surprised you?! Where have you been for the last 5 yrs.! Glad you woke up!
98% of the corn 96% of weat and 98% soy are GMO’s since at least 4 or 5 years.
I read in a magazine that they began around the 90’s… can you inmagine and we didn’t found out until recently? SALMON, ORANGES, RAPSBERRIES, zucchini and squash, red beets, sugar some of the potaoes, and tomatoes etc etc etc more than 200 foods are toxic withGMO’S pesticides. and gene manipulations and toxic… chemicals that we don’t even know about it yet for many years. no until we findout the very serious side effects. like half of the population being infertil. today there is an epidemy of femenine and male cancers, and infertility…. it is a good buseiness to be that kind of doctor, their offices are full with women and men that can’t have children.
There is no GMO wheat in production anywhere in the world. May want to double-check your sources for accuracy if they got even that basic fact wrong.
Your ‘gmo wheat’? Not true. There is NO gm wheat on the market for people to eat. Test plots, yes…but manufacturers’ don’t have it hidden in anything! If you have a link to the raspberries I’d like to read it, please.
Who’s eating cotton? Oh wait, one just WEARS 100% organic cotton to shop at Whole Foods.
Thank you…I was thinking it was mainly used as high-protein animal feed and textiles. Never thought much about its use for human consumption….
Cottonseed oil is used in many processed foods. “Vegetable oil”, which is also in most processed foods, can also contain cottonseed oil.
Not sure if your second statement was supposed to be some kind of criticism or not but there are excellent reasons to buy organic cotton clothing, including less pesticide exposure to cotton workers and more money to the farmers. I stopped buying new GM-cotton clothing a few years ago because I don’t want to support that industry anymore (it was the last GM-product to be ditched at my house because organic clothes are hard to come by and they’re expensive). If I can’t find something in organic or if I can’t afford it, I simply buy used clothing at Goodwill so that at least I’m not creating a demand for more GM-cotton to be grown.
If I absolutely have to, I’ll buy a new cotton item at the store, but I do try to avoid doing so at all costs. Most of the time I just go without new clothing and put up with my old clothes that I’ve had for years and years. Unfortunately, my growing child can’t wear the same clothes for too many years in a row, so I occasionally have to buy a new sweatshirt or two for him when I can’t find something in organic or something used. We’ve been lucky because he’s had hand-me-downs given to him for much of his life, so it’s mostly been a non-issue.
I must say it’s a pain to be a low-income person with high moral/ethical standards. It’s so hard to afford organic clothing, but it’s something I really want to do for the health of the people and the environment. The more people that demand organic cotton, though, the more it will be grown, and the more the prices for it will go down. Hemp clothing is an excellent substitute, but until our US farmers can legally grow hemp, it will sadly also remain more expensive than “normal” clothing.
No, actually I am pro-gmo. Thank you for your response though! I find it an amazing science–to create rice with extra vit. A, bananas with more iron, insulin– but I would like hemp to be grown also!
Too bad the majority of GMOs being grown are those created to be their own pesticide factory or withstand copious amounts of pesticides to be sprayed on them (and in the environment). We don’t need GM-rice for vitamin A deficiency or GM-bananas that have more iron. If people were brought up out of poverty and given more opportunities and better education about food choices, those deficiencies wouldn’t be an issue in poor countries.
If you’ve ever watched any of the Calif. farmer (and other) videos (those that grow both conventional/gmo/ and organic), you will discover that they spray the organic crops sometimes up to 5x more than their counterparts. For those that don’t believe that organic pesticides are toxic…you can find the information if you look up ‘Organic [insert crop here, like Strawberry] Production Guides’. Better education about food choices? Better education includes peer-reviewed, scientific articles stating that gm crops are safe. Yes, we need to get away from the histrionic pseudoscience.
LOL. Um, organic growers aren’t spraying with the same deadly chemicals used by conventional growers so your comment just doesn’t make any sense. Most organic small farmers use organic-approved pesticides as a LAST resort, whereas conventional growers use them as their first line of defense. I myself don’t use ANY pesticides when I grow food.
You’re right. Many of the organic pesticides are more toxic (all in all, glyphosate is incredibly benign stuff, after all). Rotenone? Pyrethrins? Spinosad? The organic-approved insecticides that are out there are pretty toxic (that is, after all, the POINT of a pestiCIDE), and are used heavily, especially on fruit crops.
As for “last resort”, that can be said for any pesticide, organic or not. It’s not like growers spray pesticides on their conventional crops just for the sheer hell of it, that stuff is expensive.
I’ll take my chances with organic agriculture. If conventional pesticides are so “safe” then why aren’t they allowed by organic standards?
Conventional crops are not only sprayed with pesticides during growing seasons, they’re also sprayed with it at harvest as a desiccant. Which means, of course, that it’s not being washed off by rain or irrigation and it’s present on the food when it’s purchased or processed. I’ll pass, thanks…
Btw, glyphosate is NEVER used by itself as a pesticide and that’s what has been tested as so “safe”. They must add other chemicals to it and chances are that this combination is what causes health problems that have shown up in studies such as Seralini’s.
That’s strange. I’ve drank coffee for yrs w/ several conventional/gmo farmers, but they do NOT like to spend their hard-earned money on spray and only use it when absolutely necessary. It’s strange; relatives that work for ‘big ag’ do not do that either–a LOT of soil tests are done to determine the safest route and they chose a variety of chems–some even organic ones, depending upon the varmint and conditions. But my comment does make sense: ‘organic approved’ does not make them safer–rotenone, pyrethrins, copper s…. (and gmo sprays aren’t any ‘deadlier’). I’m not ‘lol’ing at you. And I’ve never sprayed anything either; just picked off an occasional tomato worm. But if I had acres of tomatoes…and my livelihood depended upon it? Yes, I’d spray whatever was needed for any given situation.
Obviously, conventional pesticides are more harmful than organic or they would be allowed by the organic certification. I’m glad to hear your “friends” only use pesticides when necessary. That’s reassuring…
If you apply the organic chemicals five times…. Sorry, I’ll buy the 33 cents per lb conventional carrots over the $2.99 per lb organic.
Why do you assume that they have to spray 5 times? There are limitations on some of the more harsh organic treatments. And if they’re raising their crops the right way, they don’t need to do that, and/or they can make do with other treatments such as diatomaceous earth or kaolin clay. I spray my crops with foliar feed, which makes the plants healthy enough so that bugs aren’t as apt to bother them. Diseases are also kept to a minimum when the plants and soil are healthy.
I can buy 2 or 3 heads of organic red and green leaf lettuce for about $3, which is enough to feed 2 or 3 people for at least two nights. I recently bought 150 pounds of organic potatoes for an average of 75 cents a pound. That’s just fine for me, but I guess we all have our priorities and limits, don’t we? By choosing to eat out less, living in a small house, and driving an older car with no payments, I can spend that saved money on higher-quality produce that I feel is better for me. 🙂
Just looked and my bag of potato chips thankfully don’t have HFCS but do have GMO vegetable oil, safflower, canola or corn oil and salt. Don’t usually go out of my way for Super Bowl but mother got two avocados because they were on sale.
what is HFCS? I can’t think what it is. AND WE THE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT WANT THIS GARBAGE IN OUR FOODS DON’T HAVE ANY RIGHT TO STOPe it and when we vote, is a joke because the people we select are more interested in the money they get from big corporations to cover up this than to listen to all of us. this is a
HFCS is high-fructose corn syrup. Some manufacturers (with the help of the Corn Refiners Association) are now changing the name because consumers are starting to refuse their products, so look out also for “fructose” or “fructose syrup” on the label. Other terms are “glucose-fructose (syrup)”, “fructose-glucose (syrup)”, “isoglucose”, “corn sugar”, or “high fructose maize syrup”.
For what it’s worth, cooking oil and HFCS are so heavily processed and refined that it wouldn’t make a difference if the source crop was GMO or organic. If given samples of HFCS and soybean oil, you would have no way of determining which one was GMO and which one wasn’t. In either case, they’re still bad for you in excess. Organic HFCS is still HFCS.
There is no organic HFCS….There is organic regular corn syrup, but it’s not the same thing as HFCS. I’ve never read a label from an organic product that says it contains HFCS. Most producers of organic foods don’t even use regular corn syrup; they use other sweeteners like evaporated cane sugar, honey, maple syrup, brown-rice syrup, and agave.
Whether there’s a market for it or not is irrelevant. If you take organic #2 corn and turn it into HFCS through the same process as conventional or GMO #2 corn, the products you get will be chemically indistinguishable from each other. If the end product is a refined and purified oil, protein, starch, or sugar, there’s no DNA in it, so whether it came from a GMO crop or not is utterly irrelevant.
The process to make brown rice syrup, agave syrup, wheat syrup, or any other starch-based syrup sweetener is exactly the same, so those products are functionally and nutritionally equivalent to corn syrup.
No, they’re not the same, but nice try. And I was replying to your comment that stated “organic HFCS is still HFCS”. Again, there is no such thing. Organic foods don’t contain “organic HFCS”. They don’t make HFCS from organic corn, either. Why would they when they have thousands and thousands of acres of GM-corn with which to produce HFCS?
Well, you can rest assured that your avocados aren’t GMO, since there are no GMO avocados.
I am no longer actively & enthusiastically spreading the word about avoiding GMO foods like I used to because I simply cannot tolerate the EXTREMELY negative responses and intimidation I get from my family, friends and biz associates. So let them eat GMO and get sick. I tried for years and failed to convince them to go organic and stay that way. It’s kinda like trying to inspire an alcoholic to stop drinking. Words do nothing to educate certain people. Something really awful needs to happen before they will wake up and stop eating Super Bowl food.
This may sound egotistical, but at least we will be OK, since many of us don’t do GMOs. I hope that we can inspire our family and friends to eventually change their minds about their eating habits. Otherwise, it is not going to be our fault or problem if they get sick or become disabled.
I completely understand what you are saying. It is rare for me to even suggest anything in the way of healthy eating and living to anyone. The majority of people don’t care and we can’t change people, just be an example in how we live healthy lifestyles. When some one asks, why are you never sick that is an open door to reveal our healthy lifestyles. I’m a senior women and I am still out in the woods cutting my own firewood. I have had many young men in their twenties and thirties come out for a day to help and I am always amazed at how I can easily out work these young men who should be stronger and have more energy than me. Most often they show up with bottles of Gatorade and make comments about how it helps them work hard. All I do is chuckle and say to myself, yup we will soon see. After about three hours most of them are done for the day and so worn out yet they never really did anything, mostly stand and watch me operate the chain saw. We have an extreme problem in this country and I believe the GMO’s have already taken a toll on human genetics and people are becoming weaker in every way. I hope when I am a hundred years old I am still eating all organic foods and still cutting firewood.
scary enough, wheat, is the third largest genetically modified crop “in acres” in this country but it has not been passed as legal for consumption. Well i can imagine it won’t be long before that too is gone. If or when that happens it will be close to the full American diet and everyone will become sterile and or start growing tumors. Wheat is the rest of the cereal that isn’t already screwed, all bread, crackers, noodles, baked goods, it just goes on and on. I can’t help but rant when i think about the whole GM wheat fields issue.
Citation, please. There’s NO GMO wheat being grown commercially anywhere right now. There were a few experimental plots in the pacific northwest, but there is no GE wheat on the seed market. Period. Why on earth would it be the third largest crop in acreage if there was no market for it? That doesn’t even remotely make sense.
well, i really messed up on that one. I can’t find where that was but i guess they were saying that wheat is the third largest crop in America and if it passed as a legal GMO, most of those crops would soon be replaced with Genetically modified wheat. which would be a huge amount. Sorry for trying to spread dis-information and thank you for slamming it!
Where did you get your info for GM wheat? I’d like to read it.
Good after they are all obese and retarded smart people can reclaim the nation!
I just want to spread this a much as possible so when time comes more people know. Scary enough, wheat, is the third largest genetically modified crop “in
acres” in this country but it has not been passed as legal for
consumption. Well i can imagine it won’t be long before it is implemented. If or when that happens it will be close to the full American
diet.
Wheat is the rest of the cereal that isn’t already gm, all bread,
crackers, noodles, baked goods, it just goes on and on. Lets all make sure this does not happen!
Field corn. Soy. Papaya. Canola. Alfalfa. Squash. Cotton. A tiny bit of sweet corn. Sugar beets. You are safe to buy all the other conventional veggies and fruits. You can see there isn’t much ‘danger’ in the produce section!