Sugar is Good for You

No matter how many scientists seem to weigh-in on the safety of genetically modified foods, there is still a public perception of danger. Here are the opinions of a couple of high-level scientists. Dr. Steve Strauss is a distinguished genetics professor at Oregon State University. Simplot plant sciences have been working on modifications to potatoes that are really scientifically cool and are going to create some of the first products that consumers are going to say this technology really does have something for me. Potato chips are going to have less acrylamide when they are fried, they will taste better, there will be less use of fungicides because they are going to speed breeding for disease resistance and they are doing it in a way that they are using potato DNA .

Alison Van Eenennaam, cooperative Extension specialist in animal biotechnology in the Department of Animal Science at the University of California, Davis, to conduct a thorough review of the scientific literature and evaluate the effects of GE feed ingredients on the animals consuming those feeds. “The data don’t show that there is any concerns related to the feeding of genetically modified feeds to livestock.”

If you’re still in doubt, here’s a little sunshine to break up your rain clouds. It has been reported that sugar coming from sugarbeets which are almost exclusively genetically modified, is completely free of any proteins containing traces of genetic engineering because they are removed in processing the sugar beets. here is Executive Director of the Idaho Sugarbeet Growers Association, Mark Ruffin. “My understanding is that the sucrose that is extracted from the beets is a pure sucrose or sugar containing no GMO organic material, the genetics have been removed.” Hey doubters, that must mean that sugar is good for you.