In line with Targets recent proclamation to offer more ‘green’ and ‘non-GMO’ foods to their customers with its Simply Balanced brand, global health care company Abbott will soon sell a GMO-free baby formula at Target called Similac Advance – the very first mainstream baby formula that will not contain genetically altered ingredients.
Krishna and Amber Mehta found themselves homeless through no fault of their own and were making the best of it – that is until Child Protective Services (CPS) stormed into their lives.
What kind of person, even as the head of a major food retailer, would want to feed developing children pesticides and questionable genetically modified ingredients? That’s a question to consider when you find out that one of Gerber’s popular baby food items has been found to be full of insecticidal GMOs.
Do these executives not realize they are feeding these to our children or do they just not care?
It’s unfortunate, but mothers and babies who receive federally-funded WIC assistance (Women, Infants and Children Program) are usually provided with formula comprised of GMO ingredients, including GMO corn and GMO soy. Mothers who desire organic baby formula for their developing children are denied it. Are the poor relegated to carcinogenic, developmentally-altering, genetically modified food, and nothing else?
In what has evolved into a heart-breaking story between a father, his wife, and his newborn son, a man named Samuel Forrest was forced to choose between his wife and his new baby diagnosed with Down Syndrome. Sadly, he had to make this decision because his wife’s family was too ashamed of the newborn’s condition. Just hours after the birth, his wife of 18 months gave him an ultimatum – the woman he loved, or his newborn son.
