GMOs for breakfast anyone?

A new laboratory analysis shows that a popular US children’s cereal contains 100% GMO corn as well as worrying levels of the toxic pesticide glyphosate.

January 29, 2015 by Staff Reporter

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Ever wonder what our food in the UK will look like if we persist in trying to plant more GMOs in our fields and allow more GMOs into the UK food supply?

Our sister campaign The Letter from America painted a powerful and stark picture of that and made a non-nonsense plea for consumers in the UK to raise their voices and stop the UK turning into GMO Britain- before it’s too late.

A recent series of laboratory tests on a popular children’s cereal in the US shows why this is more important than ever.

The campaigning group GMO Free USA has just published the results of independent lab testing which show that 100% of the corn in Kellogg’s Froot Loops was GMO.

The luridly coloured cereal  was found to contain high levels of the insecticide-producing genetically engineered Bt corn that is regulated by the EPA. Tests also documented the presence of glyphosate, the main chemical ingredient of Roundup® weedkiller and the soya contained DNA sequences known to be present in Roundup Ready GMO soya.

Froot Loops are not sold here in the UK (yet) – but we are eating unlabelled animal products (meat milk and eggs) from animals fed on GMOs and there is a steady creep of other GMO food products into our stores.

The public interest non-profit recently launched an initiative Operation: Label GMOs to test popular food products for genetically engineered ingredients (GMOs) and glyphosate, which is heavily sprayed on GMO crops.

GMOs are toxic

There is substantial and growing peer-reviewed scientific evidence that both GMOs and glyphosate are damaging to health. For example an in-vitro study found that the insecticides in this corn may be toxic to human cells.

Feeding studies conducted on mammals found adverse effects, including immune system disturbances, blood biochemistry disturbances, male reproductive organ damage, disturbances in the functioning of the digestive system and signs of organ toxicity. Industry claims that these insecticidal proteins are broken down in the digestive tract, yet a study found the proteins circulating in the blood of pregnant and non-pregnant women and the blood supply to fetuses.

GM plants by design absorb more of the toxic pesticides sprayed on them and these, in turn, find their way into our food. New varieties of GMOs, resistant to the highly toxic pesticides 2,4-D and dicamba are now approved and GMO Free USA plans to expand testing to include 2,4-D, dicamba and well as atrazine and neonicotinoid insecticides.

“We find it disturbing that Kellogg’s is feeding children unlabelled GMOs and toxic herbicides. Statistics show that this is the first generation of children that are sicker than their parents. Is Kellogg’s endangering our children? Based on the growing body of scientific evidence, we believe so and we hold Kellogg’s accountable. Parents need to know what they’re feeding their children, and Kellogg’s is spending millions to keep the composition of their products hidden,” says Diana Reeves, Executive Director of GMO Free USA and mother of three.

Keeping the public in the dark

Knowing what you are eating in a country where 80% of processed foods in the supermarket contain GMOs is difficult. The agrichemical corporations that produce GMOs, together with multinational food companies, have spent millions of dollars in recent years to narrowly defeat citizens’ ballot initiatives for mandatory GMO food labelling in California, Washington, Oregon and Colorado. Kellogg’s alone has spent nearly $2 million to fund anti-labelling efforts in the US.

GMO Free USA is calling on Kellogg’s to commit to removing GMO ingredients from all of their products and enrol in Non-GMO Project Verification in the US.

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