How to Avoid Buying Genetically Modified Foods

Visit http://truefoodnow.org/genetically-engineered-foods/shoppers-guide/ to download a portable pocket shoppers' guide to help you find and avoid GE ingredients. The shoppers guide includes valuable information on common GE ingredients, brands to look for, and look out for, and common sense tips to keep you in the know.

If you want to avoid potentially dangerous foods, you need to avoid an ever-growing number of ingredients, or choose ORGANIC versions of them. This is not an easy task, especially if you eat processed food. However, the four most prevalent GM ingredients to look out for are:
1. Soy
2. Corn
3. Cottonseed
4. Canola
You'll also want to avoid the offspring of these products, which includes items like maltodextrin, and high fructose corn syrup.

Buy Organic - Examining the produce stickers on the fruits and vegetables you buy is another way to detect GM foods. The PLU code for conventionally grown fruit consists of four numbers; organically grown fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number nine; and GM fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number eight.

You can vote with your pocketbook by avoiding everything that contains GM ingredients, and ask your local supermarket to stock their shelves with more natural organic foods.

Large portions of Europe have already succeeded in removing GM foods from their food supply, forcing food manufacturers to use real ingredients in their European product lines. But here in the United States we're still stuck with it to a very large degree.

It all starts with you and the choices you make when buying your food. So please spread the word. If more of us begin to refuse GM foods, food manufacturers will have no choice but to listen.