Are Organic Foods Really Organic?

You still need to read the labels on food even when they are labelled organic. The government has tried to allow big agri-business to cash in the ever growing organic food market by lessening the organic food requirements. So even though a package may say organic is may only be made with one organic ingredient. Sometimes it is 70% organic. If you want everything inside the package to be organic you have to find 100% organic. nice....huh? I read the label on everything because I want to know if there are any soy, corn, cotton, or canola ingredients in my item and I want those to be organic. Those four items are the highest risk of probably being genetically modified ingredients. The summer of 2008 was the first planting of GM beets as well, so you can except to find sugar as a GM ingredient in most processed food too. The only way to be guaranteed to get non GM sugar is to look for 100% cane sugar or evaporated sugar cane.

Isn't it nice of our government to not think it is wise to at least give a consumer of choice of knowing exactly what is in our food? (heavy dose of sarcasm here!!!)

So, while there are many very good companies out there trying their hardest to provide you and me with alternatives to the big agri-businesses toxic food products, those big businesses are trying to mislead the consumer with very lax labelling laws. The only reason we still have the 100% organic label is due to consumer DEMAND. I wish there was as much consumer demand for labelling GMO foods. I truly believe you are what you eat.