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WTF GMOs!!!?? I tell you what ThE hECK a GMO is! Genetically Modified Organisms are a result of a laboratory process of taking genes from one species and inserting them into another in an attempt to obtain a desired trait or characteristic. No thank you Monsanto! JOIN OUR COMMUNITY! http://on.fb.me/17IizeY http://Facebook.com/RawYouth.org http://Twitter.com/RawYouthCo http://Pinterest.com//RawYouthCo http://RawYouth.tumblr.com http://RawYouth.org Great Non-GMO Resources: http://www.responsibletechnology.org/ http://www.nongmoproject.org/ http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com/ http://www.non-gmoreport.com/whatisnon-gmo.php References: Natural Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, US Department of Agriculture: Acreage. Click here to download PDF (2009) Ruth Winter, A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives: Descriptions in plain English of more than 12,000 ingredients both harmful and desirable found in foods, 6th ed. (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004). Robert S. Igoe, The Dictionary of Food Ingredients, 2nd ed. (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989) Research Triangle Institute, Economic Characterization of the Dietary Supplement Industry, March 1999 Click here to download PDF Codex General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA) Online Database of the World Health Organization (WHO) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the reports of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA). Available at:http://www.codexalimentarius.net/gsfaonline/additives/index.html The University of Maryland Medical Center database of supplements by name: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/index.htm Archives of the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/ Reports of the European Commission Scientific Committee for Food: http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/sc/scf/reports_en.html U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) PubMed Central (PMC): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/