Marketing Ploy May Mean Moving Ag Backwards

Several large yogurt companies have released statements that they would be moving to using milk from cows that have not been fed GMO feed. The reality is that 90 percent of the U.S. cattle feed is made from genetically enhanced sources — which has been scientifically proven with more than 30 years of data and research — there is no difference in cattle whether they received non-gmo or GE feed — these companies are going to have import milk products to achieve their goal. Cooperative Extension Specialist for Animal Biotechnology and Genomics at the University of California-Davis Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam who did the researh study says
Van Eenennaam: “If you keep up the fear-mongering that there is some problem with these feeds then people will sensibly try to avoid them because apparently you get cancer or autism or hair grows out your nose. And so, consumer do what is seems sensible based on the information that are being presented. So when companies swap over to alternate production systems in the absence of any evidence that there is anything wrong with existing one. That they are more or less just saying, ‘We really don’t care about the science.’ Actually what concerns me is that we are shifting to less productive production systems and that has huge environmental impacts on the footprint of our food. We are moving in the wrong direction and that worries me as a scientist. We make all of these amazing innovations and then we preclude them from being used. This is not helping with overall food productions’ footprint — it is going the wrong way.”