Why is animal feed important?
Commonly genetically engineered crops, like soy, corn and cotton trash, are used to feed animals as well as people. We then get various products from these animals (meat, milk and eggs). The health effects GE feed has on the animals forced to eat it are unknown – and so are the possible health effects on humans who consume these animal products. Under current Australian labelling laws, meat, milk and eggs derived from animals fed on GE crops, DON’T have to be labelled. Most Australian chickens’ diets are thought to contain genetically engineered soy. But if you bought the eggs or meat from that chicken, you would have no way of knowing this. Many food companies don’t even know the source of ingredients such as whey powder, which is produced from cow’s milk. Ask food companies whether the animals used in the production of their food product, were fed on GE feed. Demand that their food production guarantees there is no GE used anywhere in the supply chain.
