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Chipotle becomes 1st US restaurant chain to voluntarily label GMOs

Aloha!

I really enjoy eating from Chipotle and I love their slogan "Food with Integrity"
 
On its “Ingredients Statement” website, Chipotle clearly outlines which of its food products contain GMOs, and also states that it is working aggressively to source completely non-GMO ingredients for all of its products as it moves forward.

This is great news!

The primary GMO offender, as you will notice on Chipotle's "Ingredients Statement" page, is soybean oil, which is reluctantly used in several of the chain's meat and rice products. In fact, this commercial frying and cooking oil appears to be one of the only, if not the only, GMO ingredient still used by Chipotle.

"Our goal is to eliminate GMOs from Chipotle's ingredients, and we're working hard to meet this challenge," explains the page. "For example, we recently switched our fryers from soybean oil to sunflower oil. Soybean oil is almost always made from genetically modified soybeans, while there is no commercially available GMO sunflower oil. Where our food contains currently unavoidable GM ingredients, it is only in the form of corn or soy."

With Chipotle making these changes sooner than later, why is Whole Foods Supermarkets waiting until 2018 to have their vendors reveal to them which food(s) contain GMOs? While in the meantime, customers are paying PREMIUM prices!

I personally believed ( and the many others that shop at Whole Foods ) that we didn't have to be concerned with GMOs at Whole Foods.

Whole Foods defined : Whole foods are basically natural foods that are not refined or processed in any way.

Last I heard, GMO Food is NOT natural.

Yours in Health and Wellness,

Dr.Colgin


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