The Tangled Web of GMO - Do We Know What We are Eating?

We are eating food each and every single day without a clue that it is laced, built, manufactured, processed and produced with Genetically Modified organisms, ingredients and feed stuffs. 

There is absolutely no consumer choice in this matter – your food is filled with GMO ingredients. You are eating it, drinking it and thinking it. We don’t know our food at all anymore.

What bothers me so much is that this is being done beneath the noses of the same people who are saying “No Thanks’ to GMO foods. Here in Europe, people have been quite outspoken about their general concern when it comes to anything genetically modified. 

Perhaps the most significant point to make here is this – we are living in a so-called consumer driven economy. What the consumer wants, someone will produce. Makes sense so far, right? 

There is absolutely no demand for genetically modified foods at the supermarkets. I honestly cannot recall hearing of anyone asking for GM vegetables, or grain or anything else. There is no queue around the corner waiting for this kind of food.

The next point to be made here is that while GM feeds and GM ingredients added to a product must be listed on the label (you see this in cheese rennet and animal feeds) – the food grown on GM corn and soy are not required to be labeled as such. 

This means that you might buy a piece lamb today – nothing on the label will inform you of what this animal was fed. At every farmers Cooperative in Ireland (the world?) ordinary feed for animals usually contain GM ingredients. You have to ask for and order something different if you want to avoid GMO being fed to your meat animals.

So just who or what is driving this into our food? Obviously ‘he’ who controls the seeds, controls the food and therefore controls the world. We are all becoming genetically modified inside of our guts – because we are eating the food that has eaten these plants. 

And if you ate meat today – unless it was organic, it might have been raised on GM feed. I sincerely hope that you knew that and next time you shop you can be even more discerning when it comes to your food. Ask questions and demand answers. 

Or, if you have a back garden – build a shed and look into raising your own food to make every effort to remove yourself from the food grid. 

April 

Lamb, sweet corn & root vegetable stew