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“Mutant Corn” and 12 Other GMO Foods That Could Have a Scary, and Potentially Serious Impact on Your Health
by Bembu
GMO foods have been among us for decades, and it seems as if they are only growing in number. There are certain foods that you should definitely avoid if you’re trying to get GMOs out of your life. Here are some of the top offenders that unless otherwise labeled, will most likely contain genetically modified organisms of some sort.
1. Corn
Pick up an ear of conventional corn and chances are it’s going to contain at least some GMOs in it. Corn is the largest crop grown in America, and some of the biggest providers of corn have altered them so they’ll grow better.
GMO corn has been engineered to that it will ward off insects and battle back against herbicides. These are not the kind of chemicals you’d want to knowingly put in your body, yet there’s no way to avoid them if you’re eating corn that has been modified to inherently contain them.
It would be easy enough to avoid GMOs from corn, but so many products are derived from corn, and corn is used to make High Fructose Corn Syrup, which is found in hundreds of items throughout the supermarket, that this is easily the one GMO food to put your target on and eliminate from your diet first.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2014/07/mutant-corn-and-12-other-gmo-foods-that.html
