On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:07 AM, William Bowen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The only food I consume that might have GMOs are chocolate Cheerios. > > My brother-in-law works for General Mills, if you'd like I can find > out whether there's GMOs in Cheerios... (FWIW, I'm pretty sure the > answer is no.)
There is a good chance that they either don't know (because they don't want to) or won't say. The odds of it not containing GMOs are very slight, however. Cheerios has multiple corn products in it (corn syrup, maltodextrose, maltodextrin, modified corn starch) and the majority (I believe around 80% now) of commercial commodity corn comes from GMO sources. It also has refined white sugar, most of which comes from sugar beets these days and something like 95% of sugar beet crops come from GMO sources. As I've said before, I care about the distinctions. Not all GMOs are the same and do not all (in my opinion) present same sort of threat. However, the first major steps toward properly understanding risk are to get more research done and to get more information in the hands of consumers, so I'm totally down with mandatory labeling as a first step. Cheers, Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:356747 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
