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Creationism/Evolution Title: Hello Trader Joes, your pink slip is showing Taken from the article: More than 90 percent of corn and soy grown in the United States is genetically modified, and Chipotle used soy oil to fry its chips and tortillas. Canola oil comes from rapeseed, another large G.M.O. crop. I have told Trader Joes over and over that their use of Canola makes null and void their claim to be GMO free. Trader Joes, like all foreign owned companies, could care less about our health or telling us the truth, you must read labels when doing business with either Trader Joes or Whole Foods. Below the line, is the entire New York Slimes article. In a first for a major restaurant chain, Chipotle Mexican Grill on Monday will begin serving only food that is free of genetically engineered ingredients. This is another step toward the visions we have of changing the way people think about and eat fast food, said Steve Ells, founder and co-chief executive of Chipotle. Just because food is served fast doesnt mean it has to be made with cheap raw ingredients, highly processed with preservatives and fillers and stabilizers and artificial colors and flavors. In 2013, Chipotle was the first restaurant chain to indicate which items contained genetically modified organisms, and a small but growing number of restaurants, largely in fine dining, also now label their menus. Grocers, too, are moving to offer consumers more products free of genetically altered ingredients. The shelves and cases in Whole Foods stores are to be free of products containing such ingredients by 2018, and Walmart is vastly expanding its selection of organic foods, which are free of genetic alteration by law. Even big food companies are moving to take genetically modified ingredients, or G.M.O.s, out of their products or to label products so that consumers know which are free of them. Whether other major restaurant chains will follow Chipotles lead is uncertain. The increased demand for such products has made them more expensive and difficult to obtain in the amounts that big businesses need. Say that to live up to the promise of being non-G.M.O., you need a non-G.M.O. ingredient that accounts for just 1 percent of your formula, said Nicole Bernard Dawes, founder and chief executive of Late July Snacks, which makes chips, crackers and other snacks from organic ingredients. If you have a supply shortage in that ingredient, you cant produce your product. Ridding the supply chain of genetically altered components is difficult. They lurk in baking powder, cornstarch and a variety of ingredients used as preservatives, coloring agents and added vitamins, as well as in commodities like canola and soy oils, corn meal and sugar. Chipotle has run short of beef from time to time, and last December it announced that it could not supply all of its restaurants with the pork needed for carnitas after an audit found that one of its suppliers had failed to meet its standards for raising pigs. That shortage continues, cutting into the companys sales, and last week it said it probably would not be able to offer carnitas in all of its more than 1,800 restaurants until this fall. Mr. Ells said he did not expect to run into the same problem with supplies of non-G.M.O. ingredients. Were working with our farmers to plan enough of these crops we need to meet our supply, he said. With pork, its harder because we only need one part of the animal, the shoulder, and the farmer needs to sell the whole animal to make it work. Eliminating genetically engineered ingredients is easier for Chipotle, where the entire menu uses just 68 ingredients, including salt and pepper, while one of its competitors uses 81 just to make a burrito. The vast majority of our ingredients dont come in a G.M.O. variety, and we use lots of whole, unprocessed foods, so it was easier for us to do, Mr. Ells said. More than 90 percent of corn and soy grown in the United States is genetically modified, and Chipotle used soy oil to fry its chips and tortillas. Canola oil comes from rapeseed, another large G.M.O. crop. Getting rid of genetically engineered corn was easiest. Chipotles primary tortilla supplier was already producing non-G.M.O. corn flour in small amounts, and it agreed to increase its production. But one oil cant simply replace another. Different oils have different smoking temperatures. They impart different flavors and having varying viscosity. Chipotles chefs preferred sunflower oil but finding enough was tricky. Chipotle found a farmer willing to increase his production of sunflower, but the company needed more oil than he could produce. So instead of using one oil for the majority of its needs, Chipotle now uses sunflower to fry its chips and tortillas, while a non-G.M.O. rice bran oil will be mixed into rice and used to fry fajita vegetables. The flour tortillas posed a bigger problem. The shortening had an oil in it that was derived from soybeans, said Chris Arnold, Chipotles spokesman. We wont use lard for tortillas because of our vegan and vegetarian customers, and we cant use palm oil because of the environmental impact. So Chipotles flour tortillas are now made with a non-G.M.O. canola oil, which costs more, and the company said last week that it might have to raise prices slightly this year. But Mr. Ells said the cost of going G.M.O.-free was de minimis. Its really mostly about beef, he said.
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#1. To: BobCeleste (#0)
We only have 4 Trader Joes here in the Houston area, (vs 155 Krogers, 130 H-E-Bs and bunches of other supermarket chains). So even though I can find them with Google, I've never actually seen a Trader Joes around here in real life, so I don't go there very often. Anyway, I just noticed on the TV that H-E-B was advertising an increased variety of their own store brand "organic/natural, non-GMO" foods at supposedly "lower" prices.
Willie, my wife and I were anti-salt warriors at one time. I wish you well, Willie.
Thanks Gatlin... my meds seem to be keeping everything under control, and I feel pretty well overall, so I don't worry about it too much. And I see the doctors regularly, so I'm pretty satisfied that I don't have any major issues that are being neglected. Actually, this is a pretty big week for me. My prosthetist is supposed to be finished building my pegleg on Wednesday, and I begin physical therapy on Friday to start learning how to use it. (It's actually a cool, pretty high-tech contraption, so I can hardly wait to see how the final thing is actually put together & works.)
I have 1 about 4 miles up the highway - but I really But here's an idea for something GMO free Start by going to the health food store Bake those things in a preheated slow (200 degrees) If you get more ambitious, you can buy organic tomatoes, Or take the 9 month route and GROW you own tomatoes and
Sounds like your spirit is great, Willie ... that's most important.
My prosthetist is supposed to be finished building my pegleg on Wednesday Cheer up things could be worse:) "you're getting whittled down pretty good Mr. Meriwether"
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
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