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Cheerios To Go GMO-Free
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "ABC News reports that General Mills has ended the use of genetically modified ingredients in Cheerios, its flagship breakfast food. General Mills has been manufacturing its original-flavor Cheerios without GMOs for the past several weeks in response to consumer demand. Original Cheerios will now be labeled as 'Not Made With Genetically Modified Ingredients,' although that it is not an official certification. 'We were able to do this with original Cheerios because the main ingredients are oats,' says Mike Siemienas, noting that there are no genetically modified oats. The company is primarily switching the cornstarch and sugar to make the original Cheerios free of GMOs. Green America has been targeting Cheerios for the past year to raise the profile of the anti-GMO movement. 'This is a big deal,' says Green America's Todd Larsen. 'Cheerios is an iconic brand and one of the leading breakfast cereals in the U.S. We don't know of any other example of such a major brand of packaged food, eaten by so many Americans, going from being GMO to non-GMO.' For its part, General Mills says, It's not about safety,' and will continue to use GMOs in other food products."
Cue the Monsanto shills in 3...2...
That I'm right, and you don't like it, doesn't mean I'm a troll.
Fact is, if there were no Monsanto, it would be necessary for the anti-GMO moment to invent it.
Fact is, if there were no Monsanto, there probably wouldn't be an anti-GMO movement, or at least it would be a pale shadow of its current self. Because Monsanto is provably pure, unadulterated evil which should have been destroyed and its officers imprisoned for their environmental crimes long before they knowingly created dioxin-contaminated Agent Orange which we sprayed all over Viet Nam. The only good thing about Monsanto is that you know anything they are involved with must be evil.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"