Non-GMO (Non-GMO is short for genetically modified organisms) means the food you eat is free of genetically modified organisms. However, the U.S. government, and many other countries, has taken this to mean that the food you eat has not been tested on animals (that is, GMOs) and was never genetically modified.
Non-GMO is a pretty nebulous term, but people seem to have some pretty weird beliefs about what it means. My boyfriend thinks that if he eats his cat’s food, it’s not GMO, but he’s also fairly certain that the food he eats isn’t GMO. He’s definitely eating it though, so that makes sense.
The FDA will also take this to mean that GMO food is safe to consume. That’s not actually what it means though, and I’m sure the FDA takes this to mean that no-GMO food is safe to eat.
I think that this is mostly a matter of semantics and the meaning of GMOs is actually kind of complicated. The fact is that the word “non-GMO” is somewhat ambiguous, so the FDA will probably take this to mean “not genetically modified.” If you’re eating GMO food, you’re not eating non-GMO food. So, essentially, you can eat anything you like, as long as it’s not genetically modified.
You can eat any food that has a GMO in it. I mean, some people may be able to see that theyre eating a GMO, but it doesn’t matter. As long as it contains a GMO, theyre eating something that has a GMO in it. The only thing that counts is if the GMO is found in the food. And even then, there is no guarantee that the GMO is actually there.
I think this is a really good point. If you have a certain GMO in your corn then you can eat it! But if you have a GMO in your rice then you can’t eat it! So, if you’re trying to tell me that you can eat a non-GMO food, you’re probably not telling the truth. Just saying.
The only time that I have heard of a non-GMO food being eaten was in a movie called the “Grapes of Wrath.” But that was just a movie with a different story and the people were eating GMO corn.
Yeah, I know. We are all supposed to eat a corn based diet, and I know that most of our ancestors did. But a lot of us are only able to get a taste of those foods from the movies, or the TV shows, or maybe even just from something like the New York Times. Those are the types of foods that we are forced to eat when we feel that we should and we feel that we deserve to.
What I love about food is that it can be just about any food at all. But it doesn’t take much to make people feel uncomfortable about what they are eating, and the issue of GMO foods is just a symptom of that. It’s not like the people who are making GMO foods are just out to make money, they are trying to force us to accept something that we feel is wrong.
A lot of the recent talk about GMO foods is more about what its going to do to our food supply than what its doing to us. The point is that we want GMO foods, but we dont want them just because they are evil. It is important to understand that there is a huge difference between what we want to eat and the foods that we are forced to eat. If we want to eat the food that we feel is good, then we should be able to find it.
One of the problems with GMO foods is that the food industry forces us to take the food stuffs that are advertised as “natural.” In a nutshell, GMO crops are planted in the ground with no knowledge of how they are going to be grown. They are grown with no knowledge of how they are going to be used. The result is that they just end up growing themselves and becoming toxic to us.