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Re: genetically modified food

Margaret,

I referred to manufactured or processed foods as prepared foods.

My comment was directed at fresh produce that could be developed genetically and marketed as reduced sodium, vitamin or nutritional produce or labeled as dietetic just as fresh food items are being marketed as organic.

If the people who flock to health food stores to purchase vitamin or nutritional supplements are any indicator, there is a huge market for items (fresh and processed) that claim to cause a weight loss, increase in energy, expand cognitive processes, and enhance sexual attraction/staying power.

People naturally seem to want to purchase more for less, thus the advertising efforts to super size everything from fast foods to SUVs.

I was attempting to make the point that in the next decade we may see more emphasis on fresh produce and other unprocessed foods that are "less filling". It seems to have been a huge success in selling beer. Another marketing effort has been "the other white meat".
Years ago when I was involved in the avocado industry, growers were attempting to increase market demand for avocados by sending a message to consumers that avocados were the "California Love Fruit", thus increasing their consumption. Their market research indicated that women did the majority of the grocery shopping, yet they hired a female star of a action cop TV show to promote the sales of avocado rather than a male actor.

Claude Sweet
San Diego, CA


Margaret Lauterbach wrote:

If the national desire to curb obesity is sincere, an easy first step is to produce normal sized loaves of bread and muffins. The loaves of bread available in a supermarket will not fit in most bread loaf pans. I haven't seen any that large, for example. The same for muffins. I'd like to have a muffin for breakfast at times or a sandwich with two pieces of bread. For the latter, I cut one slice in half because two slices are far too much. The half slices aren't quite enough. Same with the muffins. We ought to call them Puffin Muffins.

Some dog food is available in high residue formulas. Is that what you think the genetically modified foods are? If there are billions spent to produce low salt foods, why does canned food contain so much salt? We're already getting less nutrients in our fresh food than we used to, according to some organic gardeners. Probably the push to grow large and fast, using more nitrogen than they used to, is responsible.

I think genetically modified foods is a guise to swell profits of three or four multinational corporations. Margaret Lauterbach

Margaret,

I wonder if people will pay extra for genetically modified meats, grains, nuts, fruits and vegetables that contain less food value so they can continue to eat tasty meals, not reduce the quantities they consume, and lose weight?

In my opinion, over weight USA consumers is a major health problem. There are billions of dollars spent every year to produce low salt/calorie prepared foods. The potential for producing dietetic fresh food is the logical next step.

With the amount of vitamins and other nutrients added to milk, cereal, etc. added to the daily intake of multiple vitamin tablets, less people depend on a well balance diet to obtain their daily vitamin/nutritional needs.

Claude Sweet
San Diego, CA



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