90% of American cheese is GMO
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-gmo-rennet-cheese-us-cola/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20240306
This one hits me in the feels, because I love cheese and I believe cheese should be its food group. I could dump queso on just about anything I eat. Cheese is my guilty pleasure.
Rennet tablets, which are used to curdle the cheese into solid form, has now been hijacked by our good friends at the Pfizer factory. They are now making “genetically modified” rennet tablets. Rather than use traditional animal or vegetable rennet, they are using this trash.
“Genetically modified FPC — To overcome some of the shortcomings of the vegetable and microbial rennets like the potential bitter cheese taste, scientists have leveraged genetic engineering technology to create new, genetically modified species that generate these milk-curdling enzymes.Introducing the most common alternative to animal rennet in cheese making — FPC. (Chymosin refers to the enzyme that curdles milk, and is naturally present in the stomach lining of ruminant animals).
In fact, 90% of the cheese manufactured in the U.S. uses these enzymes from GMOs.
FPC was created by the one and only Pfizer (biotech company) and is made possible by using CRISPR gene editing technology where the genomes of living organisms are modified. The “safety” of FPC was evaluated by a 90-day trial in rats.”
I saw a video a week or so ago of a woman in a supermarket looking at the back of cheese packaging to check for GMO’s. Now I know what the GMO is.
I am going to hunt down organic non GMO cheese if it’s the last thing I do. I cannot live cheese-free!
Try to get cheese from Germany, Italy or better France, like Comté, Bleu d'Auvergne, Morbier or Tomme de Savoie to name a few...
I second the motion to seek out cheese from GMO unfriendly countries. Cheese from the US has been on a downhill slide for a long time. The popular unnaturally yellow/orange sliced cheese that comes with individual wrappers hasn't actually been cheese for a long time. The nearest it has ever been to a moo cow is if it was driven past a pasture of them on the way from the factory to the warehouse. Grated Parmesan cheese has sawdust in it. They like to say the content is not "high", but to my way of thinking any amount of sawdust in my food constitutes a high sawdust content. Yuck. Years ago I noticed that cheese seemed to taste different. More bland. Less flavorful. That is when the GMO buffoonery with cheese began. I will pay extra for cheese (OK, just about any food) processed in a country that frowns on GMOs. Not because they are inherently evil (I'm not arguing they aren't), I do it because they taste better. It has been more difficult since the intentional disruption of the supply chain. Which I might point out was working fine right up until 2020. I feel better after my rant.