An Un-Natural Disaster
In layman’s terms, GMO, or Genetically Modified Organism, is a nice way of saying a plant that comes from a seed that has been injected with bacteria or pesticides to help it stay alive when the land it grows in is doused with chemicals.
Chemical companies have invested billions of dollars into developing these genetically modified seeds and in fighting to keep them secret from agencies that aim to protect us. Farmers who choose to use GMO seeds must sign a contract saying that they will use these seeds, and only these seeds, year after year.
What the chemical company then does is raise the prices of the seeds every year. This puts more economic strain on not only the farmer, but also the taxpayer, as the government, in turn, has to increase the subsidies. The end result is ever-rising food prices and our homes filled with products that come from unregulated genetic modification—the long-term effects of which have yet to be seen. At Garden of Life, we support only farms that use Non-GMO Project Verified seeds in an effort to bring this cycle to an end.