THAT WHOLE GMO THING.

We went to visit an Amish friend of ours who got me thinking. She'd recently (and regrettably) raised chickens on some cheap GMO feed (corn and soybean) and the experience disgusted her. I mean that literally. She said that when it came time to butcher the chickens, the livers all fell apart and were rendered inedible, that their insides were mush. And she––who had probably been processing chickens her whole life––couldn't stand to eat them.One of our local friends who has stopped growing or feeding GMO crops told me he recently took some hogs to a processor and the processor said the hogs had the cleanest insides they'd ever seen. A buddy who was with him said he'd never heard the processor say anything like that. (Notably, our poultry processor said the same thing about our turkeys last year––best they'd seen.).Yet another neighbor, who does raise some GMO crops, told me how he's noticed the deer and cattle won't graze the GMO corn stalks, and that all of his animals vastly prefer the non-GMO stuff.So what then happens to our insides when we consume GMO crops through our burgers, our soy milks, our BABY FORMULA, our soda, our processed foods or what have you? Probably the exact same thing. Now, I keep hearing these scientists proclaiming there is nothing wrong with genetically engineered crops––that we're all overreacting––but if I have a number of relatively conventional farmers, and their animals, telling me they don't want to use GMO crops anymore, that tells me something. Really, that tells me everything I need to know.- Jesse.