Day: July 21, 2023

Vermont requires that label for any product that COULD contain an GMO ingredient. Doesn’t mean it does, but any non-organic product likely contains some because such products are commonly used on many farms, as it reduces the need for application pesticides and improves crop productivity.

Most likely it may contains Bt corn which has genetically altered to express one or more proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, to resist the European corn borer, along with other ear and root worms.

Another possibility is it contains sugar from round-up ready sugar beets or soy from round-up ready soybeans. These crops resist a light application of round up to them, which allows farmers to spray for weeds while not killing off the target crop.

But probably the bigger concern about Campell’s Chicken Noodle soup is a single container has 2,225 mg of sodium from added salt — or 97.5% of the daily recommended levels. Such high levels of salt consumption lead to increased fluid retention, which means elevated blood pressure and heart attacks. Most Americans eat way too much salt, which means a severe risk of premature dying from heart failure.

The dangerously high salt levels is what should alarm you, not that farmers used technology to produce quality corn, sugar, and soy in ways that reduce the use of pesticides and wasted crops.