Anti-GMO scare and stupidity, level 50. Remember when Cheerios and Grape-Nuts went GMO-free? That was about a year ago, when their corporate creators announced that these products would no longer contain ingredients made from genetically modified organisms like common types of corn, soybeans or sugar beets. When they actually arrived on supermarket shelves, though, there was a mysterious change in their list of ingredients. Four vitamins that previously had been added to Grape-Nuts — vitamins A, D, B-12 and B-2 (also known as riboflavin) — were gone. Riboflavin vanished from Cheerios. There are strains of bacteria that produce these vitamins naturally. Yet even such microbes may not qualify for non-GMO status, because theres another hurdle. Vitamin-makers have to show that their microbes consumed feed — glucose, for instance — that came from non-GMO sources. It is still possible to find non-GMO vitamins, she says. Increasingly, you can get them from China.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 15:59:11 +0000