Beer and GMOs: What’s in your beer?

A few weeks back, an entrepreneur (in this case a modern-day version of a snake oil salesperson) who calls herself the Food Babe used her website to malign the brewing industry. Take a few minutes to read what she has to say (and then come back, okay?)

If you’d rather stay here, a brief summary: She accused brewers of employing a host of “shocking” ingredients: GMOs! Beaver anal glands! Corn syrup! GMO corn syrup! Carcinogenic caramel coloring! Etc.

She claimed to have conducted a substantive “investigation” into beer ingredients and when breweries declined to confirm/deny, concluded that beermakers had something to hide.

Read the full, original story here: “What’s In YOUR Beer?”

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