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Cooking and GMO Foods
Dec. 15th, 2014 09:06 pmI spent most of the early morning shredding the turkey breast I'd cooked, believe it or not. I think it turned out okay, but I hated how the whole house smelled like turkey. Now normally, I love the smell, but it pretty much permeated the entire house. Maggie the Cat naturally loved it. Tonight, I made garlic and horseradish mashed potatoes (and a separate non-garlic/horseradish version too for those who don't like horseradish). I admit I do love cooking for the most part, despite the mess I made last night with the turkey.
One of the topics I thought about writing on was GMO Foods, so this seems to be a reasonable segue. I know a lot of health food and organic food folks freak out regularly about GMO foods. If you go to the FDA page on Facebook, pretty much every entry gets slammed with someone complaining about GMO foods, some of them viciously so.
I guess I don't see the big deal. Farmers have been genetically modifying foods for a long term by cross-breeding different strains of fruit, vegetables, or grains, in an effort to gain a heartier product. Modern modifications are done by more direct genetic manipulation with similar results. Some of the folks fear the "GMO" foods so badly that one would think they're crossing radishes with crocodiles, fearing that they will be attacked by a vicious variety of "crocoradish" in the produce area. I personally think most of the fervor over GMO's is due to lack of knowledge.
Granted, my degree is in chemistry, so genetic modification of foods is outside my discipline. However, from what I have read makes me think the GMO foods aren't dangerous at all.
At least I know my mashed potatoes won't hurt anyone tomorrow.
One of the topics I thought about writing on was GMO Foods, so this seems to be a reasonable segue. I know a lot of health food and organic food folks freak out regularly about GMO foods. If you go to the FDA page on Facebook, pretty much every entry gets slammed with someone complaining about GMO foods, some of them viciously so.
I guess I don't see the big deal. Farmers have been genetically modifying foods for a long term by cross-breeding different strains of fruit, vegetables, or grains, in an effort to gain a heartier product. Modern modifications are done by more direct genetic manipulation with similar results. Some of the folks fear the "GMO" foods so badly that one would think they're crossing radishes with crocodiles, fearing that they will be attacked by a vicious variety of "crocoradish" in the produce area. I personally think most of the fervor over GMO's is due to lack of knowledge.
Granted, my degree is in chemistry, so genetic modification of foods is outside my discipline. However, from what I have read makes me think the GMO foods aren't dangerous at all.
At least I know my mashed potatoes won't hurt anyone tomorrow.
