Is the food you are eating God-made or man-made? Part 2

• Difference between natural and processed sugar
• Difference between unsaturated and saturated fat
• Difference between Hybrid and GMO foods
• Unhealthy Processed Food
• Wheat Bread
• Avoid Eating Blood
• Kosher Law
• Pesticide on Produces
• Containments, especially Flouride, in Tap Water<
• Seed Oils (was Omega-6 and Linoleic Acid (LA))
• Extrusion in Boxed Cereals

• Pfizer GMO Cheese
• How to read ingredient lists and fruit stickers
• Fake Meat
• Apeel and ProduceMaxx
• Glyphosate (future section)

Pfizer GMO Cheese

For thousands of years, this was how we made cheese. Eventually, calf stomachs 
became a byproduct of the veal industry. But in the 1970s, America’s growing 
appetite for cheese collided with its mounting aversion to killing newborn cows. 
Anticipating a crisis of supply and demand, researchers turned to a 
then-unprecedented technology in food science: genetically modified organisms. 
The result was a genetically altered bacterium that produced cheesemaking enzymes 
in a beaker, instead of an animal’s stomach. This revolutionized the cheese 
industry. Today, the vast majority of cheese is made with enzymes produced not by 
baby animals, but genetically modified microbes.

If you want to avoid GM or GMO foods, look for the "Non-GMO product" label on the 
cheeses you buy. A cheese label that states the product is "100% Organic" or "USDA 
Organic" is helpful too, but that doesn't always mean the type of rennet used isn't 
GMO. The best way to determine if a cheese contains rennet, whether animal or 
plant-based or GMO, is to call the company and ask. 

There are four types of rennet used in the cheese-making industry: animal rennet, 
vegetable rennet, microbial rennet and FPC (a GMO version).

Rennet is used as a clotting agent to curdle the milk into cheese, separating the 
liquid parts of milk from the solids. Pfizer makes a genetically modified rennet, 
but because of a labeling loophole, cheese containing Pfizer’s rennet does not have 
to be labeled as containing a genetically modified organism.

Bioengineered FPC was granted Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) status, which 
exempted Pfizer from the pre-approved requirements that apply to other new food 
additives. This is even though studies have detailed concerns about safety.

An estimated 90% of North American cheese is made with FPC rennet, and ingredient 
labels do not distinguish between bioengineered rennet and the original 
animal-based type so consumers have no way of knowing what they’re eating.

How to read ingredient lists and fruit stickers

• Don’t Let the Claims on the Front Fool You
• Study the Ingredients List
• Watch out for Serving Sizes
• The Most Misleading Claims
• Different Names for Sugar

• How to Find Real Food and Avoid Ultra-Processed Food in the Grocery Store
• How to Read Ingredient Lists
• Ingredients to Avoid or Minimize

• Food Label Laws and Regulations
• Food Label Confusion
• FDA Nutrient Content Claims
• Growing Methods & Certification Labels
• Organic Certifications
• Pesticide & GMO-Free Certifications
• Dates on Food Packaging
• Sell by, Use by, and Best by Dates

• What Does ‘Organic’ Really Mean?
• How to Read Labels on Meat
• What Makes Eggs Organic and Humane
• Organic Dairy
• Organic Produce Can Be Coated in Apeel
• Here’s How to Break the Produce Label Code

• What Are Those Stickers Made Of?
• Looking Up Information on a PLU Code
• How to Tell What Produce Is Genetically Modified
• How to Tell What Produce Is Organic
• A Word of Caution

Fake Meat

Apeel and ProduceMaxx