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Report Finds Gerber Baby Food Filled with GMOs

• http://naturalsociety.com, BY CHRISTINA SARICH

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?

Lab tests have confirmed that Gerber's Lil' Crunchies snacks are full of Roundup Ready, insecticidal GMO ingredients. Even the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued a policy statement recommending that children's exposure to pesticides be reduced. How can this company put them in a snack that little ones are meant to munch on?

"Children encounter pesticides daily and have unique susceptibilities to their potential toxicity. Epidemiologic evidence demonstrates associations between early life exposure to pesticides and pediatric cancers, decreased cognitive function, and behavioral problems."