yep. And since high-fructose corn syrup is pretty bad for you anyway....I think I'll refrain, myself.
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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:356766 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
