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Monday, September 27, 2010

Numbers You Need To Know When Grocery Shopping

I recently read an interesting article about how to know if you're buying fresh fruits and vegetables that were grown either organic, conventionally (with pesticides) or genetically manufactured (these are bad, stay away from these).  You just need to look on the stickers they put on the fruit or vegetable:


 5-digit number starting with 9 means organically grown
 4-digit number starting with 3 or 4 means conventionally grown
 5-digit number starting with 8 means genetically modified
I thought this was very interesting and have definitely started using this information when shopping for fresh produce!!
GMO products are bad and could be lethal to people who have food allergies, because the food you are buying could have genes that have been spliced from the food you're allergic to or worse yet, some other "unknown" species. 

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