HOW TO ENJOY A HEALTHIER NON-GMO THANKSGIVING
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(November 3, 2007- Los Angeles, CA) For a growing number of Americans, Thanksgiving this year will mean avoiding Genetically Modified (GM/GMO) Foods. Read our tips below for a great non-GMO Thanksgiving.
Keeping Our Traditions Healthy
Turkey
Look for the best turkey supplier you can find because most domestic animals are fed genetically modified corn. If it is a prepared turkey dinner or brined turkey, look to see that it has no preservatives such as sodium benzoate recently linked to hyperactivity in children.
Vegetarians can look for non-GMO turkey alternatives. There are several on the market. Remember it must say non-GMO or organic, otherwise, if made in North America from soy, it is almost certainly GMO.
Potatoes – Mashed & Sweet
Genetically modified potatoes were removed from the market in 2001, but keep your eyes peeled and let your store know you want 100% Non-GMO foods, dairy and produce.
Cranberry Dishes
Avoid high fructose corn syrup or soy lecithin in the sauce or gelatin. Use organic apples to avoid pesticides from the apple’s flesh for those cranberry dishes that include apples. In 2007, just peeling many fruits is no longer sufficient to remove toxins.
Pies – Minced & Pumpkin
Lookout for GM vegetable oils in the pie crust and avoid the GM sweeteners high fructose corn syrup and aspartame in pie fillings and in ice cream. This spring, the sugar industry plans to start planting GM sugar beets unless we can convince them otherwise. GM beet sugar may be in your favorite products as early as next fall and you will have no warning label to let you know if you are ingesting real sugar or GM sugar.
Green Bean Casserole
Lookout for soy protein concentrate in your cream soup as well as soy, corn, cottonseed or canola oils. Avoid canola oil or vegetable oil which contains corn, soy or cottonseed oils to stir fry or sauté your green beans. All of these oils are genetically modified. Use other oils such as olive oil, safflower oil, grapeseed oil or peanut oil.
Ice Cream and Dairy
Buying organic dairy will assure that the cows have not been fed GM corn and soybeans or injected with GM bovine growth hormone. If you can’t get organic, you may at least want to look for labels on the milk and ice cream showing that the growth hormone, called rBGH or rBST, was not used.
Remember the 4 Major GMO crops are: Corn, Cotton, Canola and Soy. Sugar beets may be here in 2008, and GM Hawaiian Papaya, zucchini and Crookneck Squash are marketed in small amounts.
Biotechnology companies are trying to force many other GMO crops into the market, don’t buy them! Go to
www.responsibletechnology.org
for more non-GMO information.
The Institute for Responsible Technology,
www.responsibletechnology.org
, is a public education nonprofit that works on non-GMO initiatives with scientists, activists and concerned citizens from around the world.
Institute for Responsible Technology
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