Geneticlly Modified Foods

But we are deluding ourselves if we think that choice will solve all the problems. As the food chain grows ever longer we're increasingly dependent upon others to provide us with safe food.

As Americans we browse the supermarket shelves, how can we be sure that the food is healthy and isn't contaminated? The more we know about how our food is produced, the less reassured we are likely to be. How many of us will feel comfortable about eating chicken after samonela outbreaks every week across the world.

We can't measure the amount of tin leaking into tinned tomatoes, or the amount of pesticides contaminating our fresh fruit and vegetables, or the presence of GMOs in many processed foods. Most of us can't even make sense of the information which is “supposed help us” - on food labels. With words so weasel and so tiny, the average food label gives little away. So, increasingly, we have to trust industry and government and hope someone

The company later blamed the contamination on Mexico and their tanker truck.

Yes, we can take better care of ourselves by eating more fruit and vegetables and less salt, sugar and processed food - but can we be sure it's as safe as we think? I know I don't want to discover that fresh food isn't really fresh, or that carrots need to be peeled because they're contaminated with pesticides, or that apples have been waxed into cosmetic perfection. Equally we don't want to be wound up unnecessarily by every new scare and passing fad.

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