FOOD These Charts Show Every Genetically Modified Food People Already Eat in the U.S

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These Charts Show Every Genetically Modified Food People Already Eat in the U.S.

Dave Johnson @davejohndc Siobhan O’Connor @siobhannyc

April 30, 2015
See all the GMOs you may already be eating

Chipotle announced Monday that the chain will no longer serve food containing genetically modified organisms (GMO), raising the bar for transparency in the United States, where there’s no requirement to indicate the presence of GMO ingredients on food labels or in restaurants. Likewise, biotechnology companies aren’t required to report which genetically modified seeds are used in production.

Yet the use of GMOs is undoubtedly widespread. Since GMOs were approved for commercial use, and then first planted into U.S. soil in 1996, their production has increased dramatically. More than 90% of all soybean cotton and corn acreage in the U.S. is used to grow genetically engineered crops. Other popular and approved food crops include sugar beets, alfalfa, canola, papaya and summer squash. More recently, apples that don’t brown and bruise-free potatoes were also approved by the FDA.


Adoption of GMO Crops in the US, 1996-2014
1996199820002002200420062008201020122014% Farmland per Crop0102030405060708090100Bt corn80Bt cotton84Ht cotton91Ht soybeans94Ht corn89
Ht: Herbicide-tolerant Bt: Insect-resistant
Source: USDA Economic Research Service

It's also instructive to look at permits granted by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — the American GMO gatekeepers, together with the Environmental Protection Agency – though it's important to note that not all the issued permits are for crops that are approved for commercial use.

To produce crops commercially, biotech companies apply for "deregulated status", the green light from the USDA to plant and distribute without restriction.

The bar chart below shows all deregulated crops, sized by the number of genetic varieties approved for each. The ten crops in green are currently produced in the United States, and described in detail in the list below.
USDA Approved Genetically Modified Crops
Produced in US Not currently produced
appleroseplumsugarbeettobaccoflaxcichorium intybusalfalfacanolaricepapayabeetsquashpotatorapeseedtomatocottonsoybeancorn05101520253011111112222226710162033
Source: USDA Animal and Health Inspection Service

1. Corn
Genetically modified corn turns up in many different products in the U.S. — and corn on the cob is the least of it. This crop is used to produce many different ingredients used in processed foods and drinks, including high-fructose corn syrup and corn starch. But the bulk of the GM corn grown around the world is used to feed livestock. Some is also converted into biofuels.

33 Genetically Modified Varieties
Applicant Phenotype Date Effective
AgrEvo Phosphinothricin Tolerant and Male Sterile 3/16/99
Pioneer Male Sterile and Phosphinothricin Tolerant 5/14/98
AgrEvo Phosphinothricin Tolerant and Moth and butterfly Resistant 5/8/98
Monsanto Herbicide Tolerant 11/18/97
Monsanto Herbicide Tolerant and European Corn Borer Resistant 5/27/97
DeKalb European Corn Borer Resistant 3/28/97
Northrup King European Corn Borer Resistant 7/18/96
Monsanto European Corn Borer Resistant 3/11/96
Plant Genetic Systems Male SterileMS3 2/22/96
DeKalb Glufosinate Tolerant 12/19/95
Monsanto Moth and butterfly Resistant 8/22/95
AgrEvo Glufosinate Tolerant 6/22/95
Ciba Seeds Moth and butterfly Resistant 5/17/95
Dow 2,4-D and ACCase-Inhibitor Tolerant 9/22/14
Bayer/Genective Herbicide Tolerant 9/25/13
Monsanto Male Sterile 9/25/13
Pioneer Insect Resistant and Glufosinate Tolerant 6/20/13
Stine Seed Herbicide Tolerant 5/3/13
Syngenta Rootworm Resistant 2/27/13
Monsanto Drought Tolerant 12/27/11
Pioneer Male Sterile, Fertility Restored, Visual Marker 6/28/11
Syngenta Thermostable Alpha-amylase 2/15/11
Syngenta Moth and butterfly Resistant 4/20/10
Pioneer Herbicide & Imidazolinone Tolerant 12/9/09
Monsanto European Corn Borer Resistant 7/24/08
Syngenta Corn Rootworm Protected 3/16/07
Monsanto High Lysine 1/23/06
Monsanto Corn Rootworm Resistant 12/14/05
Dow Corn Rootworm Resistant 9/23/05
Dow Moth and butterfly Resistant & Phosphinothricin Tolerant 10/20/04
Monsanto Corn Rootworm Resistant 10/8/02
Mycogen c/o Dow & Pioneer Moth and butterfly Resistant Phosphinothricin Tolerant 6/14/01
Monsanto Herbicide Tolerant 9/29/00

2. Soybeans
The second largest U.S. crop after corn, GM soy is used primarily in animal feed and in soybean oil—which is widely used for processed foods and in restaurant chains. In fact, soybean oil accounts for 61% of Americans' vegetable-oil consumption. It's also often used to make an emulsifier called soy lecithin, which is present in a lot of processed foods, including dark chocolate bars and candy.

20 Genetically Modified Varieties
Applicant Phenotype Date Effective
AgrEvo Phosphinothricin Tolerant 11/23/98
AgrEvo Phosphinothricin Tolerant 6/8/98
Du Pont High Oleic Acid Oil 5/7/97
AgrEvo Glufosinate Tolerant 7/31/96
Monsanto Herbicide Tolerant 5/18/94
Monsanto Dicamba Tolerant
Monsanto Lepidopteran-Resistant SoybeanMON 87751 10/17/14
Dow 2, 4-D, Herbicide and Glufosinate Tolerant 9/22/14
Dow 2,4-D and Glufosinate Tolerant 9/22/14
Bayer/Syngenta HPPD and Glufosinate Tolerant 7/18/14
Dow Insect Resistant 4/17/14
BASF Imidazolinone Tolerant 3/18/14
Monsanto Increased Yield 11/7/13
Bayer and M.S. Technologies Herbicide and Isoxaflutole TolerantFG72 8/21/13
Monsanto Stearidonic Acid Produced 7/13/12
Monsanto Improved Fatty Acid Profile 12/16/11
Monsanto Insect Resistant 10/12/11
Pioneer High Oleic Acid 6/8/10
Pioneer Herbicide & Acetolactate Synthase Tolerant 7/24/08
Monsanto Herbicide Tolerant 7/23/07

3. Cotton
Much of GM cotton is turned into cottonseed oil, which is used for frying in restaurants and in packaged foods like potato chips, oily spreads like margarine, even things like cans of smoked oysters. Some parts of the plant are also used in animal feed, and what's left over can be used to create food fillers such as cellulose.

16 Genetically Modified Varieties
Applicant Phenotype Date Effective
Calgene Bromoxynil Tolerant and Moth and butterfly Resistant 4/30/97
Du Pont Sulfonylurea Tolerant 1/25/96
Monsanto Herbicide Tolerant 7/11/95
Monsanto Moth and butterfly Resistant 6/22/95
Calgene Bromoxynil Tolerant 2/15/94
Monsanto Dicamba and Glufosinate Tolerant 1/20/15
Bayer Glufosinate Tolerant, Moth and butterfly Resistant 2/22/13
Bayer Glufosinate Tolerant, Moth and butterfly Resistant 10/12/11
Syngenta Moth and butterfly Resistant 9/29/11
Bayer CropScience Herbicide Tolerant 5/22/09
Syngenta Moth and butterfly Resistant 7/6/05
Monsanto Herbicide Tolerant 12/20/04
Mycogen/Dow Moth and butterfly Resistant 7/15/04
Mycogen/Dow Moth and butterfly Resistant 7/15/04
Aventis Phosphinothericin Tolerant 3/10/03
Monsanto Moth and butterfly Resistant 11/5/02

4. Potatoes
A new kid on the block, the very recently approved GM crop is resistant to bruising and may produce less of a cancer-causing chemical, called acrylamide, when exposed to high heat. It has not yet seen adoption in the food supply, but is expected to be.

6 Genetically Modified Varieties
Applicant Phenotype Date Effective
Monsanto Colorado Potato Beetle and Potato Virus Y Resistant 2/25/99
Monsanto Potato Leafroll Virus & Colorado Potato Beetle Resistant 12/3/98
Monsanto Colorado Potato Beetle Resistant 5/3/96
Monsanto Coleopteran Resistant 3/2/95
J.R. Simplot Low-Acrylamide Potential, Reduced Black Spot BruiseE12, E24, F10, F37, J3, J55, J78, G11, H37, H50 11/10/14
Monsanto Potato Leafroll Virus & Colorado Potato Beetle Resistant 7/17/00

5. Papaya
Bred to withstand ringspot virus, which can destroy papaya plants, these genetically engineered 'Rainbow Papayas' were first commercially produced in the late 1990s. Much of the yield is grown in Hawaii.

2 Genetically Modified Varieties
Applicant Phenotype Date Effective
Cornell U Papaya Ringspot Virus Resistant 9/5/96
University of Florida Papaya Ringspot Virus Resistant 9/1/09

6. Squash
Zucchini and yellow summer squash have been commercially available in the U.S. since the mid- to late-'90s, though GM squash accounts for just 25,000 acres of farmland, by some estimates.

2 Genetically Modified Varieties
Applicant Phenotype Date Effective
Asgrow Cucumber Mosaic Virus, Watermelon Mosaic Virus 2, and Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus Resistant 6/14/96
Upjohn Watermelon Mosaic Virus and Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus Resistant 12/7/94

7. Canola
GM canola is used to make oil for cooking, as well as margarine. It's also used to produce emulsifiers that are used in packaged foods. By some estimates, 90% of canola grown in the U.S. and Canada is GM.

2 Genetically Modified Varieties
Applicant Phenotype Date Effective
Monsanto Herbicide Tolerant 9/25/13
Pioneer Herbicide Tolerant 7/18/13

8. Alfalfa

In a controversial decision in 2011, the FDA approved the commercial use of GM alfalfa that contains a gene making it resistant to herbicide. The crop is used mainly as hay for cattle.

2 Genetically Modified Varieties
Applicant Phenotype Date Effective
Monsanto/Forage Genetics Reduced Lignin 11/10/14
Monsanto & Forage Genetics Herbicide Tolerant 1/28/11, 6/14/05

9. Apples

Another newly approved crop, this apple from a Canadian biotech company does not brown even after it's been sliced. It recently received FDA approval. The agency said it is safe to eat, which means they may appear on supermarket shelves.

1 Genetically Modified Variety
Applicant Phenotype Date Effective
Okanagan Non-Browning 2/18/15

10. Sugar Beets
More than half the granulated sugar in the United States comes from GM sugar beets, which have been in production since 2008. Though their use was temporarily halted due to safety concerns, production resumed in 2011.

1 Genetically Modified Variety
Applicant Phenotype Date Effective
Monsanto and KWS SAAT AG Herbicide Tolerant July 20, 2012, February 8, 2011 (Partial), March 4, 2005

Methodology

GM crops produced in the U.S. are listed at the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech. Deregulated crops are tracked at the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

Link to source:
http://time.com/3840073/gmo-food-charts/
 

Blue 5

Veteran Member
That particular science is slowly killing us all. But hey, go ahead and stick your head back up your ass where it's warm and safe...
 

WalknTrot

Veteran Member
That particular science is slowly killing us all. But hey, go ahead and stick your head back up your ass where it's warm and safe...

It's a personal choice whether you eat that stuff or not. OTOH, a lot of folks around the world could well be starving without it, and may not be so choosy. Just another perspective. No need to get nasty.
 

Ragnarok

On and On, South of Heaven
Sounds good to me. Better living through science.

Geez... I thought this was sarcasm until I read your next post.

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ShadowMan

Designated Grumpy Old Fart
The only way to change this is to vote with your pocket book. REFUSE to buy GMO! DEMAND to know what is GMO and the biggest effort should be to GROW YOUR OWN and get DIRECTLY INVOLVED in your foods production through Farmers Markets and Community Supported Agriculture, simply get to know who grows your food and how it's grown. Until Big Ag feels the pain they are not going to stop!

MONEY TALKS and BULLSHIT WALKS!
 

Codeno

Veteran Member
It's a personal choice whether you eat that stuff or not. OTOH, a lot of folks around the world could well be starving without it, and may not be so choosy. Just another perspective. No need to get nasty.

Just a bare minimum of research will reveal that the starving countries are still starving. "Feeding the World" is a myth, swallowed and regurgitated by sheeple who do no research, or prefer not to know the truth at all. Meanwhile, Monsanto et al. get richer by the day while both humans and animals suffer at their hands, as was the intention all along.
 

jazzy

Advocate Discernment
we only have a choice when there is honest labeing so we CAN make a choice. but sine the GMO pushers are spending big bucks fighting against honest labeling---the average american has no idea if what they are buying is GMO or not.

i have always wondered why they spend so much money and energy to fight against having their GMO products identified for the public. if they got nothing to hide then why try so hard to hide it?
 

TerryK

TB Fanatic
Do we know yet how eating GMO Food affects the body? I still don't like the idea.
Each case of GMO plants is different. Mostly GMO is to make the plant more resistant to some particular disease or insect to which it is normally easy prey. Technically any hybrid is GMO but what most people are worried about is when scientists take a gene from another plant or bacteria that has a quality they are looking for and insert it artificially into a plant to make it resistant to diseases or insects. Like any new technology, some of it is probably overall good and some is probably bad in the long term.
If anything, it is probably the long term effects of certain proteins etc. produced by GMO foods that may be harmful. Short term effects are pretty thoroughly tested, but it is impossible to test the long term 30 or 40 years exposure. However this is also a problem with any new product, not just food.

To answer Codeno's assertion that "people are still starving": Years ago people were starving because we didn't produce enough food. Today the world has a surplus of food. The only reason that people are starving today is because of government issues, or transportation and distribution problems, many of which are again caused by governments.

Some info on how they modify genes in various organisms:
http://ag.arizona.edu/yavapai/anr/hort/byg/archive/geneticallymodifiedcrops1.html
Scientists and farmers have been genetically modifying food crops since the late 1800's through a process known as hybridization or selective plant breeding. This was the pre-biotechnology method of introducing genetic materials from one individual plant to another. Since the mid-1990s, scientists have been genetically modifying crop plants by inserting genes from different organisms (such as bacteria) with desirable traits into the crop plant.

If you follow the national and world news, this issue is undoubtedly familiar to you. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are a highly emotionalized topic. Production agriculture sees them as an opportunity for increased production while decreasing the uses of pesticides. Companies that have created them see them as good business. However, health-conscious consumers are highly skeptical of them for a variety of reasons. Why not take the time to become better educated on this topic so that each of us can make informed decisions about GMOs. Our first lesson will be: how do they do it?

Scientists and plant breeders first identify a gene of interest. For example, Bacillus thuringiensis otherwise known as Bt is a bacterium that contains a gene for a protein that is toxic to caterpillars and a few other larval stages of insects. Bt is available on the shelves of most nurseries as a "safe" pesticide for caterpillars but due to its fragile nature, it does not last long in the environment. Enter genetic scientists that have the identified the segment of DNA that codes for the specific protein in Bt that kills the caterpillars.

The scientists then isolate the DNA containing the desired gene and purify it. In a long segment of DNA, only a small segment contains the actual gene that must be extracted. The genes are removed from the long DNA strands by restriction enzymes that can located the beginning and end of the gene, tightly bind to it, and snip out the desired gene. The restriction enzymes locate the beginning and end of the gene by finding a specific key sequence for that gene. The small quantity of snipped out gene segments are isolated and removed.

In order to increase the quantity of desired genes, they must be introduced into bacterial cell. Bacteria are used because they reproduce very rapidly. This is done by isolating plasmids from host bacterial cells. Plasmids are small, circular DNA molecules that are reproduced each time a bacterial cell divides. The gene segment is incorporated into the plasmid by using the same restriction enzymes that cut it out of its original host DNA. In order to do this, the plasmids must contain the same key sequence as the host.

The plasmid opens up and the desired segment of DNA inserts itself into the break making the plasmid a circle again. The altered plasmid now has the desired gene in it. Now, the scientists remove the altered plasmids and reintroduce them into live bacterial cells. These designer bacteria now produce the plasmid (and hence the desired gene) every time they reproduce through cell division. In a short time, there are thousands of copies of the designer bacteria. This methodology is used to create large quantities of gene products for the pharmaceutical industry.

These gene products can also be extracted again for insertion into plant cells. By selecting the proper genes, scientists can create crop plants that contain Bt and are therefore resistant to attack by selected insect pests. Other genes can make a plant disease resistant or even resistant to certain herbicides. This is where the public can become frightened of a "Frankenstein" plant.

One such frightening case was a study where GMO corn containing Bt was studied under laboratory conditions. The study showed that when pollen produced by the Bt corn was placed on milkweed foliage, it caused a high percentage of monarch butterfly caterpillar mortality. Recently, the EPA found that monarch caterpillars out in the field simply don't eat enough of the toxic pollen to significantly increase the mortality rate.

There are several other issues of concern surrounding GMO food issues: allergens, nutrition, labeling, and the list goes on. I'll try to cover some of these issues as the data emerges. Until then, keep an open mind and keep informed with sound scientific information.

The University of Arizona Cooperative Extension has publications and information on fruits and vegetables. If you have other gardening questions, call the Master Gardener line in the Cottonwood office at 646-9113 or E-mail us at mgardener@kachina.net and be sure to include your address and phone number. The Yavapai County Cooperative Extension web site is http://ag.arizona.edu/yavapai/.
 

vessie

Has No Life - Lives on TB
.9 Apples

There is an apple which is non-browning and I believe it's the Only one on the market and that's the Opal apple.

Ryan's Juice company in Hood River, Or. I think has the sole market on this and they use it for making their Opal apple juice http://ryansjuice.com/artisan-releases/opal/

I have a relative who is 'high up' in that company and so I know what I'm talking about.

Back in Dec. I think, I was watching one of the local Seattle news stations and they had a big apple farmer on from eastern Wa. extoling the wonderful virtues of the non-browing apple but he was pontificating on the new GMO non-browing apple, Not the Opal apple which I would consider quite safe.

I believe Safeway carries the sweet and crispy Opal apple and it's a cross between the topaz and the golden delicious apple.

A little FYI, Ryan's supplies all the other apple juice brands with apple juice and also the big named companies who sell the now popular hard apple cider. V
 

Codeno

Veteran Member
I have studied this topic for years, while living in the middle of Monsantoland farm country. I am on a first name basis with large scale farmers, suppliers, beekeepers, arborists, water diagnosis and treatment professionals, etc. The gmo "industry" has destroyed or negatively affected every one of these areas. There are no illusions here, though some have buried themselves in denial as a coping mechanism. We don't buy much of anything that comes from the lips of government, the EPA, or "scientists" in the employ of Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Pioneer Seed, Archer Daniels Midland, or their contemporaries. Type any one of those names into google, followed by the word "scandal", and watch what comes up.

In addition to the many fine documentaries that have been made exposing this criminal agenda, the internet is chock full of the truth. A good place to start with Monsanto or any of the related chemical companies and gmo crops is to understand that the process just doesn't work unless a farmer spreads and sprays these companies' chemicals on each crop, cradle to grave. It is no longer farming, it is chemistry. Bad, dangerous, disingenuous science. These chemicals are hauled to the fields in tanker trucks and grain hoppers behind semis and are dispersed by machines that are bigger than small homes and look like something out of Star Wars. The seed itself is almost an afterthought, though it has been twisted genetically in such a way that the chemicals are it's lifeline.

It matters not what they claim to have done with their biological tinkering, when the chemicals that are so integral to the process are deadly.

I don't have much time today, but I'll provide a link below to a site that has compiled a number of peer reviewed studies on gmo issues in general, and Glyphosate in particular. Without Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, and a dozen other Roundup spinoffs, the gmo process would be dead in the water.

The argument is often tossed around that there are no peer reviewed studies to prove the dangers of these chemicals and this process, which is just not true. Peer reviewed studies abound, though you have to dig a bit. Once you realize what real science has discovered and proven about the gmo industry, you will begin to realize just how corrupt the people at the top of that industry are. Criminal is too kind a word.

I could post links all day, but this is a good place to start, for those who want the truth...

"Compelling Peer Reviewed Scientific Studies"

http://www.gmofreepa.org/compelling-peer-reviewed-studies/#.VUZZU5PCZ39
 

Ragnarok

On and On, South of Heaven
My brother actually works pretty high up in the Monsanto corporate world .

He is quitting a very lucrative position before he "starts glowing" ( his words ).
 

kittyknits

Veteran Member
People have lived since the beginning of people eating the food God created. I have no interest in eating food created by this mad science. Hybridization is okay; this is not.

Until there is no natural food left in the world, I will not eat this frankenfood.

I don't buy everything organic. I try to go by the Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen, but GMO foods are out.
 

kittyknits

Veteran Member
I thought it came out a few years ago that the people who work for Monsanto demand organic food in their employee cafeterias.
 

spinner

Veteran Member
The recent announcement by the WHO that glyphosate "probably" causes cancer reinforces my decision not to eat any gmo "food."

Hybrid and gmo are not even close to the same thing. Hybridization can and does occur naturally and genetic modification cannot.

As was mentioned before, if genetic modification was so good they would be plastering it all over the labels. NOW - NEW AND IMPROVED WITH GENETICALLY MODIFIED INGREDIENTS FOR BETTER HEALTH AND GREAT FLAVOR!
 

magnetic1

Veteran Member
People have lived since the beginning of people eating the food God created. I have no interest in eating food created by this mad science. Hybridization is okay; this is not.

Until there is no natural food left in the world, I will not eat this frankenfood.

I don't buy everything organic. I try to go by the Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen, but GMO foods are out.

this!
 

Copperhead Road

Contributing Member
That particular science is slowly killing us all. But hey, go ahead and stick your head back up your ass where it's warm and safe...

I think blue is right on. I wonder how much of this stuff we eat everyday and don't realize it. Corn chips , bread, meat etc. all could, might, very well may have gmo modified foods in the pipeline. This science is very bad.
 

ShadowMan

Designated Grumpy Old Fart
It's a personal choice whether you eat that stuff or not. OTOH, a lot of folks around the world could well be starving without it, and may not be so choosy. Just another perspective. No need to get nasty.

It's not a personal choice if you're not able to choose between GMO and NON-GMO is it?

That's all I ask. If something has GMO product in it...LABEL IT AS GMO! THEN I can make a choice. If it's sooooo safe why not put it on the label, why hide it? Hmmmmmmm?
 

RCSAR

Veteran Member




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Cyclonemom

Veteran Member
It already IS labeled.

If it says "NON-GMO" then if you are against eating GMO,you can eat it.

If it doesn't mention GMO's, then your odds are that it is.
 

Cyclonemom

Veteran Member
FYI, Bacillus Thurengesis , the stuff that is used to make Bt corn and other Bt products, is a USDA Organic approved pesticide. Many certified organic producers douse their fields in it. So odds are you are still ingesting some, even if you are eating certified organic food. Your body can't tell whether the DNA came from *IN* the food or *ON* the food.
 

Warthog

Black Out
People have lived since the beginning of people eating the food God created. I have no interest in eating food created by this mad science. Hybridization is okay; this is not.

Until there is no natural food left in the world, I will not eat this frankenfood.

I don't buy everything organic. I try to go by the Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen, but GMO foods are out.
Most of the organic stuff is tainted too!
 
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