Big Food is at it again, hiding ingredients they know we really don’t want to consume in their products. This time it’s the presence of a new version of high fructose corn syrup. But this is not the innocuous fructose that has sweetened the fruits humans have eaten since time began. This is a questionable ingredient with many names that could be causing all sorts of health problems.
The product is General Mills’ Vanilla Chex, an updated version of the Chex cereal sold in most conventional grocery and discount stores for many years. The front of the box clearly states that the product contains “no high fructose corn syrup” (HFCS), but turn it over to read the ingredient list and there it is – the new isolated fructose.
Why is that a problem? According to the Corn Refiners Association (CRA), there’s been a sneaky name change. The term ‘fructose’ is now being used to denote a product that was previously known as HFCS-90, meaning it is 90 percent pure fructose. Compare this to what is termed ‘regular’ HFCS, which contains either 42 or 55 percent fructose, and you will know why General Mills is so eager to keep you in the dark.
CRA explains:
“A third product, HFCS-90, is sometimes used in natural and ‘light’ foods, where very little is needed to provide sweetness. Syrups with 90% fructose will not state high fructose corn syrup on the label [anymore], they will state ‘fructose’ or ‘fructose syrup’.”
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a food ingredient that has become widely used as a cheaper replacement for natural sugar during the past 40 years. That 40 year time span has also seen skyrocketing incidence of obesity, diabetes, and other metabolic diseases. While as yet it has not been established that HFCS is the direct culprit, the circumstantial evidence is hard to overlook.
Nailing Down Links Between HFCS and Bad Health Outcomes
A study just published investigated the effects of various sugar solutions on lab rats. It found that the isolated fructose solution, as opposed to other sugars tested, resulted in a doubling of circulating triglycerides.
Another study published in late summer found that consumption of HFCS-55 negatively impacts hippocampal function, metabolic outcomes, and neuroinflammation when consumed in excess during the adolescent period of development.
Yet even more research published this year found higher-than-expected amounts of isolated fructose in beverages they tested. Popular drinks made with HFCS contain 50% more isolated fructose than glucose. They concluded that beverages made with HFCS have a sugar profile very different than sucrose (table sugar), in which fructose and glucose are equivalent and balanced.
Additionally, this research team suggested that current dietary analyses may underestimate actual fructose consumption.
Consumer watchdog group Citizens for Health has petitioned the FDA asking for labeling specifying the amounts of fructose in products containing HFCS, as well as notification to food producers that any product containing HFCS at a higher level than 55% fructose is considered to be adulterated under federal regulations and cannot be sold in interstate commerce.
How do General Mills and other Big Food companies navigate such issues? Bill Bonvie, writing for Food Identity Theft, notes that corn refiners are:
“simply eliminating the high fructose corn syrup designation for the laboratory sweetener that’s nine-tenths fructose and calling it what it really is: fructose. And that’s how a processed-food product like Vanilla Chex that contains “fructose”, a substance that, according to the corn refiners, used to be called HFCS-90, can now declare itself to be high fructose corn syrup-free.”
As for General Mills, it has a history of deceiving the public. Earlier this year, it was prohibited from labeling its products that contain synthetic ingredients as ‘natural.” The Fortune 500 company reached a settlement agreement with the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) that would prevent it from designating its 30 Nature Valley products, which include granola bars, crispy squares, and trail mix bars- as 100% natural.
But General Mills is not alone in deception. CSPI has also been successful in removing the ‘natural’ labels from 7Up (Dr Pepper Snapple), Crystal Light (Kraft Foods), and Edy’s Ice Cream (Dreyer’s).
Don’t Reward Bad Behavior
If you want to engage in a healthful diet and you don’t want to be fooled by Big Food, it is essential that you read the labels of the products you buy. If you see ingredients that compromise health or that you can’t pronounce or understand, walk away from all the products made by that company. It is clear that company does not have your best interests at heart. Buy only from companies that have demonstrated over and over that they care more about you than they do about their bottom line.
HFCS can damage your liver and pancreas the same as alcohol does, maybe even why pancreas cancer is on the rise and them dying from it at younger ages.
I would love to see the published science making that claim, since the science shows that HFCS isn’t a concern at all.
http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/high-fructose-corn-syrup-just-sugar/
pancreas cancer rate is not rising, sorry.
http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/pancreas.html
Actually, HFCS is the same as all other sugars. It doesn’t damage your liver, or pancreas, unless you overindulge. Dose makes the poison.
Yes. High fructose corn syrup is metabolized just like alcohol, just without the buzz.
It is in almost every product.
I was trying to find pickle relish without HFCS at my grocery. I couldn’t find it so I
had to buy pickles with no HFCS and chop them up.
The jews running these corporations really hate all people!
Hey greg, What are you trying to say about Jews? Jesus is King of the Jews. Jesus Himself is a Jew, born to a Jewish mother. Of all the peoples of the earth he could have chosen to be born into he choose the Jews above all others. Did you know that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which is responsible for much of the anti-Semitic views in today’s world was actually a Communist created document? Are you a Communist, greg, or just ignorant about what you’re stating about the Jews? Do you know that God said in His Word the Bible that He will bless those who bless the Jews and curse those who curse them? Are you deliberately trying to incur God’s wrath? Try reading the Bible.
hmmm…not to challenge you, but 3,000 years before the story of Jesus was created, the book of the Dead mentions Horus, who did everything and perfomed all the miracles Jesus did, but 3,000 years before…food for thought
Jewish and Christian & molem religions are mixture of several very old religions :Zoroastro, Egyptian, and some others.
Jesus was from Galilee, not Judea. He was not a Jew, he was Galilean.
Thanks God, i cannot stand the judaic Christians, who believe the sun encircles jews.
Jesus was born a Jew and he died a Jew.
Christianity started out as a Jewish sect with all the Jewish laws, including avoiding pork and getting circumcized. They only changed those later when they had a hard time winning over converts
Jesus was NOT a jew. The communists WERE jews……you are getting it all ass about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYvbIAXveVk
jesus is a myth, and the buy bull is just that,bull. Do some real research
It was not the communists who inherited this goofy idea but it was published by the Romanoffs, the czar’s lineage who needed justification for their pogroms to use as scapegoats for their screwy serf/ nobility society. All the communists did was pass it on but many of the first Russian communists were Jews.
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GOD made a conditional covenant with Abraham, long before the existence of any Jews. It began with “I will be your God & you will be My people…” In the past 2K years, the majority of Jews have chosen the other side & have rejected God & His Son, Jesus, & disqualifying them from any blessing from God.
Men wrote and spoke that, not God.
Jews are on the same side-Western, educated, few criminals, etc
Why do you think every American leader, from the beginning to today call this country Judeo-Christian?
show me a birth cert. that states he was a Jew! What he was, was killed by the Jews hung on the cross to die funny how they want to claim him now like you are even able to understand his teachings!
He was killed by the Romans, but you knew that already didn’t you moron?
He was hung on the cross by Romans. Romans were not Jews.
Your demeanor is not reflecting anyone’s teachings.
The Bible was written by men, not by God.
How the heck did we get from HFCS to religion?!?!
Morons always find their way to religion or politics, no matter the subject. We all have strong opinions about them and that’s why when any trifle of a trigger appears, BOOM! They go off!
The only moron I see is you. The other guy is an antisemite. Learn the difference.
Except this probably isn’t a real antisemite. It’s probably a sockpuppet pretending to be an antisemite to discredit this site and this article. If so, it wouldn’t be the first time. The progressive website Common Dreams busted some a-hole posting antisemtic crap under multiple usernames. Turns out he was a Jewish man who was almost certainly working an agenda.
Anti-semite and proud of it! The only agenda is the jewish control of the banks, media and government. The jews where not expelled from 160 nations for their good deeds!
Racist pig
Ikr?!?
Doug Stanhope says it best watch?v=PDWOP_McMHA
Greg is BANG ON. It IS *THEM* who own EVVVVVERYTHING. They own every media outlet, t.v. station, large corporation (that has sold out to them) etc… You people have NO CLUE how much the JEW owns your life! I’ll start you with one hint. They did 9/11. 666%, they did it… They have you CONNED with THEIR MEDIA that Muslims in Mountains – across the OCEAN did this who have zero money, zero anything… Meanwhile, there are 6,000,000 (there’s that number again!!!) Jews who have DUAL-CITIZENSHIP. What does that tell you? Americans don’t know that they send over $7,000,000 per day to Israel and this is money NOT dedicated to Israel’s total annihilation and genocide of Palestine. People, please educate yourselves before you bash people like Greg. Look, Jews have even made their OWN WORD up for people who are WISE to them; “antisemitism.” That should say it all right there!!! If someone is racist towards us white people, we don’t invent a word for it!!! They Jew sunk the Titanic. Yes, that’s right. THEY write the history books. It was not an iceberg and if it were? It was PURPOSELY steered into it BY a Jew. Why did this happen? There were people who OPPOSED the Federal Reserve on that ship. Now? You have a money system that is TOTALLY and WHOLLY corrupted and invented by Jews. They are not ALL bad. But I will tell you one thing. They will ALL do anything for a buck. They have done SO MANY things to your country it’s not even funny… U.S.S. Liberty was attacked by Jews. Want to talk about Sandy Hook? No, I know most of your attention spans are not long enough… Watch the video (which is being FEVERISHLY scrubbed off of the Internet by Jew-companies like Google, YouTube, Facebook, etc… ,,,Let me get that straight – they are companies that are TAKEN OVER BY JEWS; not founded by them…) These people want a New World Order and that’s why you see things like that black guy being shot and the white cop getting off. They WANT total chaos. That Aurora shooting was a staged hoax as well. The B.P. oil Disaster? That was done ON PURPOSE. They killed the man who knew this in his jacuzzi and said he drowned!!! Remember that 8.9 (9.0) in Japan? Yep, they did that, too. Do the research, people. At first they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win. J.F.K. was right. Sadly, he was your best President and was taken out by “them” as well… Just like all of the people in the entertainment industry who are being killed… Michael Jackson was just about to embark on a journey to expose them… Martin Luther King… There are so many. But Greg? You are a REAL MAN for knowing the truth. You people had better stop worrying about the newest cellphones and gadgets and see that they’re taking away your rights to own a gun, ride a plane (without being raped) and so many other rights… I say this as a FRIEND to the United States!!! I do not even live there but I know a lot because I research and read the documents… Those FEMA camps are real. They are waiting for the right crisis to set them up by using the Jew-run United Nations! Don’t you see it yet?! Also, Katrina! There’s another one!!! Yep, the dykes were PURPOSELY OPENED to make it worse… One could go on all day with what they’ve done…
Peace
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You are a genius above these goyim! Just knowing the truth is something that completely escapes the average television watching fool in the US today! Cheers brother…
You’ve got to be the biggest asshole on the internet.
I guess presenting the truth makes people who do not share your foolish ideology assholes? Good, i am not here to follow i am here to lead.
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Are you kidding me!?
Get back to us when you’ve come to your senses, Himmler
Don’t eat any processed food period… Too many chemicals and “natural flavors” Too much GMO sugar and not enough nutrition. The reason processed food is so cheap is because it is filled with empty calories and cheap fillers.
It’s not just “empty calories”, they count, are metabolized in the liver and converted straight to fat. So they are not “empty calories”. They are toxic calories that are not empty because it packs a deadly punch to the liver and increases fat storage in the body instead of being assimilated into the body and cells.
It also causes insulin resistance, Gout, Diabetes, obesity and a host of other medical issues.
You seem knowledgeable, so this comment is more for others than you. 🙂
What is “GMO sugar”? You do know sugar from GMO sugar beets is chemically identical to non-GMO sugar, right? There is no chemical difference between the two.
Here come the Monsanto minions
Oh no, I pointed out some chemistry, I must work for Monsanto. Only someone from Monsanto can understand basic chemistry.
They are not identical. Can you say 100% that is no foreign DNA in sugar from sugar beets?
Yep, and WTF is foreign DNA..
Regular sugar C12 H22 O11
GMO sugar C12 H22 O11
Sugar grown by Monks using organic methods C12 H22 O11
No difference……
Believe what you want, eat what you want.
I’ll stick to real food, thanks
Belief has nothing to do with it, it is just chemistry. They are all the same.
I think you’re missing round’s point, Captain Corporate America.
It’s funny bc it spikes your glucose levels differently.
Nope, they are all the same. Sugar is sugar, doesn’t matter how it was grown.
bulls*it !!!!!!
cis or trans?
It would not matter for sugar. How could cis or trans be foreign?
EXCEPT that GMO beets and sugar have been injected with another genetic cells and+ pestecides to get more yield and less insect destoying the plants,… that doens’ show in DNA. you miss that part.
Ummmm. No. sugar and beets are totally different things. No GMO crops are injected with pesticides. And DNA is just DNA and there in none in sugar.
Yes, in that sugar has no DNA in it. It’s really not that difficult to purify sugar.
But all that refining is bad for the body too! Don’t use white refined sugar use natural sugar way better you don’t need as much, just as sweet but no chemicals turning it white!!!!!
What chemicals? How is refining bad? Refining is the same as purification, it means filtering out the molasses using centrifuges and then the non-sugar color using carbon filters. Pure sugar is naturally white in color and no chemicals are needed in refining it.
It it the lack of other chemicals that turns sugar white, the so called natural sugar has far more chemicals in it.
Just wondering if we took your sugar away if you would be called hypo zombie?
Nope, I don’t eat much sugar. Not because of the GMO issue, i just don’t have a sweet tooth.
Wait, really? You think sugar has DNA in it? All that’s in sugar is carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen… no nitrogen, no phosphorus, nothing necessary to make a nucleotide.
Nazis…
Actually they are different DNA is biology and what you list is the chemical composition. Every living thing is composed of both DNA and a chemical composition. That is why sciences have 2 paths. They are different.
I am told that GMO sugar beets tastes different than cane sugar so there must be some difference. I read that it is ALMOST chemically the same, but there are differences in “their volatile profiles and thermal behaviors” and that may be why they taste different. While no sugar is generally healthy for us, there are other differences. The GMO sugar beets are more likely to have more residue from glyphosate and the sugar beet byproducts may still have the antibiotic marker which is of course a concern. Even if GMO sugar beets are just as “safe” as cane sugar, they aren’t good for the environment. If you must have sugar, choose cane sugar.
And cane sugar is more likely to have organic pesticides, such as copper sulfate on it which is highly toxic. What’s your point exactly?
I would prefer organic any day. My point is that GMO sugar beets and cane sugar are different, so stop saying they are the same.
And my point is that sugar is sugar, which is chemically identical. They ARE the same.
So e-85 gasoline and regular 87 octane are the same. I don’t think so. How about sea salt and chemically made back with I?
Those things you listed are not singular chemical compounds. Sugar is a singular compound. Sugar is sugar, either a monosaccharide or disaccharide. Though in practically any case when discussing sugar in food, we are discussing the disaccharide sucrose. It’s chemical formula is C12H22O11 and its full name is α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→2)-β-D-fructofuranoside.
How much does this Monsanto gig pay? Looks like a cush job.
If only I was getting paid for spreading science. I could use the money.
BS. There is surcose, fructose, glucose. They can all be called “sugar” but they ain’t the same.
That’s a Monsanto talking point. Ugh. Trolls.
I’m sorry, what? What about “sugar is sugar” has to do with Monsanto? It is a scientific statement and fact. They are chemically identical disaccharides. It is basic organic chemistry.
I understand that you’re a moron that enjoys getting steamrolled by multinational corporations. I kind if hope you’re a Monsanto troll, because if you aren’t getting paid for your asinine comments, I have even less respect for you than I already had. Get your head out of your ass. It’s 2015, already. Next thing I know, you’ll attempt to explain that Democrats and Republicans are “different” even though their policies result in the same finished product — fascism.
these gmo sugars are added to processed foods, drinks, everything from icecream to peanutbutter etc…
Plus, the excessive amount of glyphosate and other herbicides used to grow the GMO beet, sugar cane, or corn. You forgot to list THAT chemical in your GMO sugar profile. Consumers don’t care how harmless some theoretically perfect GMO looks in a lab. We care about the real properties of the actual food once it reaches our plates. Foods engineered to withstand herbicide application are absolutely going to be treated with higher and higher quantities of herbicide each year. (Btw, since you didn’t cite your sources, I see no need to cite mine.) Scientific studies as well as everyday common sense tell us that anything doused in herbicide will absorb and retain some of that herbicide. It is also obvious that anyone who eats such food consumes the herbicide along with it. Arguing that genetic engineering in and of itself is not harmful while ignoring the fact that foods are being engineered almost exclusively to produce or receive high levels of secondary toxic chemicals is like telling people they should go ahead and let themselves be shot because an unloaded gun is molecularly equivalent to a steel girder.
BTW — The phrase you are looking for is “chemically equivalent” not “chemically identical”. That is how GE foods are classified by the FDA. The word “equivalence” acknowledges that there are differences between two things while implying that those differences are simply unimportant. The classification of GMO’s as “chemically equivalent” to natural organisms was based solely on an assumption made by Monsanto’s lobbyists (not their scientists) which was then spoon-fed to the FDA so the agency would write the idea into its regulatory law. The concept of “chemical equivalence” between GE products and their natural antecedents is completely theoretical and was not tested or proven by any independent laboratories before being written into law. This classification was an ingenious move on Monsanto’s part, as it is the very reason why GMO foods have NOT been subjected to any meaningful level of safety testing such as those required for newly synthesized drugs or food additives. So when someone cites the “proven safety” of GMO’s, what they are actually citing is an assumption (made by lobbyists) that allowed Monsanto to skip out on the time and expense of performing actual in-depth safety and environmental studies. What he or she is NOT citing are the conclusions of a scientific investigation. To speak accurately, GMO’s are “presumed equivalent” to natural organisms. They have not, however, been “proven” equivalent or even claimed to be “identical”.
GMO sugar C12 H22 O11
Non GMO sugar C12 H22 O11
Sugar grown biodynamically by Tibetan Monks C12 H22 O11
There is no difference.
I guess that might be true if all of the sugar was produced in a sterile lab. You’re citing a chemical formula, but that is not all that people are consuming when they eat sugar.
Shall we talk about how there are no differences between morons next?
Would that be you…
well you have already proved that you are the moron, so continue.
One word for you, Mr Monsanto: BOYCOTT. It’s killing Monsanto already, and the GMA is feeling it too. Take your GMO’s, keep them, push them – and go out of business.
What? Monsanto sells seed and herbicides, they don’t sell any sugar or even grow food. What the heck are you yapping about.
No, I mean chemically identical, as in the two sugars are the exact same compound with absolutely no difference between them. If given a sample of sugar, there would be no way for you to determine whether it came from a GMO or non-GMO sugar beet, because the sugar itself is chemically identical.
GREAT information!
Actually, glyphosate resistance just means that you don’t have to worry about glyphosate harming crops. It doesn’t necessitate increased pesticide use, only the amount necessary. The general usage is a couple of pounds per acre, mixed with 100 parts water. In terms of actual glyphosate amount, it comes out to about 1 drop per square foot, if not several square feet.
Pesticide usage due to GM crops has dropped significantly.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/gmcr.28449#.VLcuQivF-ap
Which has also resulted in the decrease in potential risk and harm to farmers in general, with cases of pesticide poisoning decreasing significantly after the development and usage of GM crops. Such as with Bt cotton in India.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800911002400
You seem to be operating under the assumption that non-gmo foods don’t recieve just as much pesticide applications. They do. They don’t recieve direct glyphosate applications, but they recieve any number of other herbicides not to mention far more insecticde.
Here’s a penn state publication on soybean herbicides. Take a guess how many of them are used on conventional soybeans.
http://extension.psu.edu/agronomy-guide/pm/tables/table-2-4-12
most sugar and sugar beets are GMO’s
You are completely missing the point. And sugar cannot be GMO, it has no DNA.
You keep repeating these pointless statements, lol. The sugar that comes from a GMO plant came from a GMO plant, which is all that matters. This sugar is a GMO product.
Some people don’t want to eat GMO products. They should have a choice in what they eat. Period.
I stand in favour of choice!
Your point of C12 H22 O11 is the same, regardless of it’s source may be valid within a limited context, but you seem to be missing the greater dialogue. My argument is there are important reasons to distinguish between GMO and non-GMO sugar:
1). Even the white processed sugar available at grocery stores does not contain pure C12 H22 O11; there are trace element (sugar crystals are formed through nucleation around other particles). Trace elements could vary depending on the process and environment, and could potentially be harmful or beneficial over long periods of consumption.
2). The true disastrous impacts of GMO-sugar go beyond what is in the sugar you consume. Buy purchasing GMO-sugar you are supporting a system of accelerated environmental degradation. GMO-strains are used because they can tolerate higher doses of pesticides, which equates to higher levels of soil and water pollution. GMO-based agriculture in it’s core tenets undermines biodiversity. The majority of scientists I know understand the incredible importance of biodiversity, so I won’t take space here to explain.
And what, pray tell, are these hypothetical trace elements? What specifically are they that you are claiming are harmful?
Do you know anything about how pesticides are actually used when growing GM crops? The amount of glyphosate used is the lowest out of any pesticide and averages out to 1 drop per several square feet. The vast majority of what you’re seeing during spraying is just water, as it has to be mixed with 100 parts water.
Biodiversity of what? Agriculture has nothing to do with environmental biodiversity.
The reality is that I don’t know which trace elements are in refined sugars from GMO beets. Since you don’t either, on what basis can you legitimately assure me that they don’t have harmful effects, particularly over long periods of ingestion?
To address your second point, if, as you claim, “1 drop of glyphosate per several square feet” (not sure of your source here) is a safe amount, what happens after 100’s of pesticide application cycles? Water evaporates, glyphosate does not. The half-life of glyphosate is up to 174 days (Forest Service 1984). If you understand the salinity concentration of a terminal basin such as the Dead Sea, you will understand the limitation of your argument.
lastly you state, “agriculture has nothing to do with environmental diversity”. Sure, if you are talking only about soil-less, sealed-environment agriculture, but that’s not what most people (at least in the US) are eating is it? Since sugar beets are pollinated by both wind and insects, including bees, do you still not see the possibility of mono-cultures effecting ecosystems upon which agriculture relies, and therefore “environmental biodiversity”. Not to even mention the cases where transgenic crops have actually leaked into the environment. …but you still don’t hear me though.
SOURCE: Forest Service (1984). Pesticide Background Statements, Vol. I Herbicides. United States Dept. of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook No. 633.
I’m not aware of there being trace elements in the first place. And, being as trace as you’re claiming, they’d be at far too low of a concentration to do anything at all. You absorb more unknown trace elements by breathing than you would get from that.
After glyphosate binds to soil, it’s half life is about 70 days. In water it’s even less at around 30 days. Generally, a single growing season only requires 2-3 applications, thanks to that half life. Not to mention that in soils with heavy metal poisoning (such as the copper sulfate used in organic farming), it helps improve the soil health.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25043609
I see you don’t know very much about sugar beets. Or GM sugar beets at least. They are harvested long before they reach the pollination stage. Which is why the anti-GMO people’s arguments about sugar beets cross contaminating things was so ridiculous, it was clear they didn’t know what they were talking about from the get-go.
And GM crops have not affected monocultures. If anything, biotech has stabilized the growth of monocultures and begun to lessen them by making other crops also viable and profitable for growing.
http://geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/08/08/anti-gmo-claim-examined-does-genetic-engineering-foster-monoculture/
SOLID
“Biodiversity of what? Agriculture has nothing to do with environmental biodiversity.”
Now you’re just being intentionally dense.
In that agriculture is not the environment. Biodiversity has nothing to do with agriculture. Agriculture is inherently non-natural. IN regards to environmental diversity, GM crops are better just for the mere fact that they take up less land for more yield and use less toxic pesticides in general at low concentrations.
Compare that to organic farming, which has between 10 to 30% less yield, depending on the specific crop, and uses more highly toxic pesticides like copper sulfate, which also causes heavy metal poisoning of the soil.
“Biodiversity has nothing to do with agriculture”
Annnnd…credibility completely gone. I have one word for you:
bees.
How can you justify unlinking agriculture and the environment? Do you have any idea how many crops rely on bees?
TOTALLY
Glyphosate is one of the worst things spreading around our nation (and thankfully not around the world as its getting banned everywhere)! It’s killing the bees and our environment (AND US)! Good luck convincing the people who don’t make policies and don’t get the corporate cash to back this load of crap! We all want it and all GMO stuff out of circulation! And we can only vote with our $, as ALL our politicians and policy makers continue to be swayed by $ and cooperate greed and backroom favors!
Glyphosate isn’t banned anywhere, so your comment is rather amusing. And it has nothing to do with bees
your an idiot, Europe uses far more glyphoste that we do in NA. If you want more glyphoste ban GMOs.
Boycotts work wonders. GMO pushers, take note!
Watch this video. There is a difference in the way our bodies process the sugar. https://youtu.be/MOtfeBJK9mI
It is not necessarily the GMO that motivates many of we who want nothing to do with the GMO items. It is the intent of the modification that enrages us. Sugar beets are GMO to withstand high applications of Roundup.
So regardless of the yada yada yada of the chemical difference between the two, we do not want to eat roundup.
GMO has Roundup
Non GMO does not.
If you consider 1 liter per acre to be a “high application”, I guess. Considering that’s one of the lowest amounts needed for any pesticide, I don’t really hold the same view. Also, how is this any different than all of the pesticides used in organic farming like pyrethrins, spinosad, or copper sulfate?
“Sugar beets are GMO to withstand high applications of Roundup. “
Nope, high application would kill them, thus why they are called resistant not immune
“So regardless of the yada yada yada of the chemical difference between the two, we do not want to eat roundup.”
and regardless of source, GMO or non-GMO beet, there is no Roundup. #1) Roundup is a trademarked name of a product containing the active ingredient glyphosate. The glyphosate is the part that the plant takes up #2) all that yada yada you don’t want to hear about, where the extraction of the sugar results in pure C12H22O11, is important
Their naturopath told them that the evil GMOs are hiding in that chemical formula, or how else can you explain that if someone drinks 4 gallons of soda a day they get fat? That never happened before GMOs.
” evil GMOs are hiding in that chemical formula”
when you look at it under scanning electron microscope, you see
That is what I thought, little devil horns on the Oxygen atoms. LOL
oh, this comment is priceless, I have to send it to JoeF too.
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/npr-khpr/mauis_next_steps_on_gmos/#comment-2122354657
I dont get you folks. So instead of sugar beet farmers using one pesticide (Roundup) with GMOs, you would rather they go back to using 3-7 pesticides on the conventional sugar beets?
I’m afraid I’ve got bad news: All food is processed. Another bit o’ bad news: Everything is chemicals.
the worst element of HFCS is that it contains MERCURY, cumulatively, more than in vaccines.
fructose by whatever name is still DEADLY toxic
If it lists more than five ingredients, try something else.
And if any of those five ingredients are not something you could buy and prepare for yourself (if you had the time, knowledge, and/or inclination), try something else.
Agree. If it wasn’t available to your Grandmother, don’t eat it.