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Mendel’s Peas & Today’s Conversation Around GMOs

March 31, 2015 / Posted in: The GMO Debate / Tagged: healthy food, science of GMOs

In the grand scheme of things, genetics is a relatively young field. The innovative human spirit has taken science to new heights in only the past two hundred years or so. (That’s not really a whole lot of time.) Some of our more brilliant ideas have aided the human race in previously unimagined ways, while others have created even bigger problems. The flame that lit the GMO firestorm that concerns many, many individuals today was actually sparked back in in mid 1800s with the experiments conducted by a man named Gregor Mendel.

Bye-Bye Roundup Weed Killer: GMO-Free Livestock Feed Is Here To Stay

March 30, 2015 / Posted in: The GMO Debate / Tagged: health dangers of GMOs, healthy eating, herbicides and pesticides

We all want to eat naturally, to get food in the purest, healthiest form possible, but sometimes these desires are in direct conflict with a farmer’s need to produce a high yield for an ever growing consumer base. Nature is working against us in our quest to consume all-natural, as weeds and bugs attack our crops. Enter Roundup weed killer.

Those crops, in turn, need to feed our livestock, and we believe that those animals shouldn’t be stuffed full of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Hiland Naturals chicken feed, pig feed, turkey feed (and the list goes on) are GMO (and Roundup) free, and here is one reason why.