April 27, 2015

Chipotle Be Like: GMOs GTFO. The FDA Says: Meh.

Today, Chipotle (Hillary's new favorite burrito place) loudly and proudly announced that they shall no more serve genetically modified foods. Because those are terrible for you, right?

Maybe not so much ...


GMOs in foods have been a controversial topic for years, and even the FDA refuses to take an official stance. “While FDA regulates foods and ingredients, including foods made from genetically-engineered plants, the agency neither supports genetically-engineered plants based on their perceived benefits nor opposes them based on their perceived risks,” the agency says on its website.

But the head of the Food and Drug Administration’s food safety center has said the agency found no basis that GMOs pose any different safety concerns than foods developed by traditional plant breeding.
Read more on Yahoo Health, and sarcastic tweets at Twitchy.

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