It’s your body, and your family, so surely you have a right to know what you’re giving them. When it comes to wellness, that includes any genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) that are hidden in your food, as GMOs risk family wellness with allergic reactions, antibiotic resistance, pesticide exposure, reproductive damage, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and many potential long-term health issues that are still being discovered. However, certain companies are reluctant to admit the truth about their products.
The World Health Organization argues that companies need to phase out the use of antibiotics in the making of genetically-modified foods, and a recent study from Washington State University found that the use of herbicides has increased by about 25% in the three main GM crops, which belittles the argument that genetic modification reduces pesticide exposure. However, the problem isn’t just the foods themselves but also the lack of transparency concerning them. GMOs are not labelled on food packaging, and due to massive campaigns on the part of corporations using GM foods, any legislation to make things otherwise have been shot down.
Companies who have opposed GMO food-labelling legislation, who, in other words, don’t think that your wellbeing should be secure in the knowledge of exactly what your putting in your body, include Pepsi-Co owned company Naked Juice, Kraft’s Back to Nature company, Coca-Cola’s Honest Tea, Odwalla, and Simply Orange Juice, General Mills’ Cascadian Farm, Muir Glen and Larabar, Kellogg’s Kashi, Morningstar Farms, Gardenburger and Bear Naked, J.M. Smucker’s R.W. Knudsen and Santa Cruz Organic, Ben & Jerry’s Unilever, Dean Foods’ Horizon Organic and Silk, Abbott Nutrition’s Similac, and Goya Foods, Welch’s and many more. This is based on the research of The Cornucopia Institute, and these companies collectively spent millions to crush Proposition 37; Californian legislation that would force companies to label foods containing GMOs.
Other companies were part of this list too, but the ones above specifically target their products as ‘healthy’, all the while preventing you from knowing which ‘frankenfoods’ you’re giving your family. You can fight for your wellness by voting with your wallet, and steering clear of companies, and their parent companies, on this list until they change their ways. If wellness is your goal, you have the right to know exactly how your food is affecting it.
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