From: Jayson Funke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
While this article is from 2003 and its data
may be a bit under-representative, it gives some idea of the amount
of GM
food on the shelves (and the percent of GM crops in existence every
year
increase substantially).
"Approximately 76 percent of last year's American soybean crop was
GM, as
well as 32 percent of corn. (Some estimates place the corn figure
closer
to 50 percent.) As habitual label readers know, soybean and corn
products
are ubiquitous on grocery-store shelves, present in everything from
Pop-Tarts to veggie burgers to Campbell's tomato soup (which lists
"high
fructose corn syrup" as a primary ingredient). No government body
keeps
precise statistics, but a popular guesstimate among university
researchers
is that around 70 percent of processed foods contain GM ingredients.
Considering that about 90 cents of every dollar spent at the
supermarket
goes toward processed foods, chances are you've been unwittingly
consuming
GM victuals since the mid-1990s, when they began appearing in stores."
Full article at: http://www.slate.com/id/2083482/
Thanks for this. It would be great if we had a US map of GM crops
(showing where GM corn, potatoes, soybeans, etc. are grown) based on
latest data.
Yoshie Furuhashi
<http://montages.blogspot.com>
<http://monthlyreview.org>
<http://mrzine.org>
