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Mar 20, 2009 · Take genetically modified (GM) foods. The new documentary The World According to Monsanto takes an in-depth look at the billion dollar, multi-national corporation Monsanto and its push to spread its bio-engineered seeds.
Sep 13, 2016 · The list of “Monsanto-Created Food Products” are the food products that contain Monsanto-engineered ingredients like GM soy, and the like, which are designed to be “roundup-ready” a chemical created by Monsanto.
Dec 20, 2019 · Marches and rallies against Monsanto, a biotecnologie company and genetically modified organisms (GMO) food and seeds were held in dozens of countries in a global campaign highlighting the...
- GMOs increase corporate control of our food. Increasingly, the food industry is dominated by a handful of powerful corporations that control nearly every aspect of how our food is produced.
- GMOs don’t live up to the hype. GMOs often don’t even do what they’re supposed to do. You’ve probably heard that “we need GMOs in order to feed the world,” on the presumption that only GMO crops have a high enough yield to keep up with a growing population.
- More GMOs means more chemical use. Many GMO crops are specifically engineered to resist certain weed killers, such as the potentially carcinogenic Roundup, so planting GMOs means that farmers end up using the associated chemicals, and using them in more ways, when they use GMO crops.
- GMOs and organics can’t coexist. Trying to keep a farm GMO-free is harder than you might think. Some GMOs don’t stay put where they’re planted. It’s quite common for them to contaminate neighboring farms, or even farms many miles away when pollen from GMO crops drifts on the wind.
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- GMO Foods
- Types of GMOs
- Uses for GMOs
- Approved Applications
This article provides information about the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food and other products. It explains that most GMOs are used to make ingredients for processed foods, animal feed, and some medicines. The article also mentions the role of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in ensuring the safety of GMO products.
Many foods and food products are made with ingredients from GMO crops, including cornstarch, soybean oil, canola oil, granulated sugar. The U.S. Department of Agriculture maintains a list of bioengineered foods available throughout the world and consumers will start seeing the “bioengineered” label on some foods due to the new National Bioengineere...
Only a few types of GMOs are grown in the United States such as soybeans (94%), cotton (96%), corn (92%) which make up large percentages of their respective crops grown; most used for animal food or making ingredients for processed foods.
Most common uses include making cooking oils and margarine (canola), feeding cattle/dairy cows (alfalfa), producing fabric materials(cotton), preventing insect damage while reducing need to spray insecticides(Bt Corn). Some were developed to resist browning after being cut or plant viruses like summer squash or papaya ringspot virus disease respect...
FDA has approved an application allowing sale of AquAdvantage Salmon & GalSafe pig both genetically modified but safe & nutritious as non-GMO salmon & pigs ; genetic engineering also important in creating medicines that go through extensive FDA approval process before human use .
Oct 18, 2012 · Here's the full list of food crops for which you can find GMO varieties: Corn, soybeans, cotton (for oil), canola (also a source of oil), squash, and papaya. You could also include sugar...
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Nov 5, 2021 · Monsanto, the chemical company with outsized influence and impact on our agricultural practices, is often in the news. Its genetically modified Roundup Ready crop seeds were introduced 25 years ago, and have changed how many of us both eat and think about our food.
