[Editor’s note: Nicole Rodriguez is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist.]
Every day is Election Day – at the grocery store. Here’s how to cut through the nonsense and vote with your food dollar. By avoiding one easy-to-spot label [the Non-GMO Project butterfly], you’ll save money, enhance your diet, and take a stand for science.
This post has been a long time coming, and it’s personal as much as it’s professional. Here’s what: I’m tired. Exasperated. Frustrated. And simply can’t sit quietly while a sham of a non-profit contributes to food-shaming at its finest. By finest, I mean absolute worst.
Genetically modified wheat isn’t available in the United States. All pasta is Non-GMO. Same for anything else not mentioned on the list above. So, when I see the butterfly on pasta, coffee, kiwi, or any of the other thousands of foods that DO NOT HAVE A GMO COUNTERPART, it resonates in a very particular way. That way is a slap in the face.
Foods verified by this now seemingly Godly seal are not any more nutritious or wholesome than their non-labeled counterparts. And companies that choose to become verified by the Non-GMO project and label foods containing ingredients aside from potato, corn, canola, soy, papaya, sugar, or summer squash are preying on consumers’ misplaced fear. I CRINGE at the thought of someone, especially another mother like myself trying to feed her young family, feeling shamed into making food purchases based on pure nonsense.
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