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further to my radio column about gmos in beer here is a list of 8 beers that contain them govern yourself accordingly update:  and here is a rebuttal to that article not really touching on the gmo aspect, but totally slamming the rest of the scary beer ingredients aspect (and fabulous use of my new favourite word: dumbassery - mostly due to it that great silent b in the middle)

here are my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast talking about gmos in beer with mathew lazin-ryder: Let's begin this post-St. Patrick’s Day column with a mention of green beer.   I am a fan of beer; good beer, quality beer.   If you could make your beer green in colour without taking away from the quality of the beer, then I would be all for it.   To the best of my knowledge though, the green beer on offer around Vancouver is courtesy of green food colouring.   As a card carrying beer geek I'm not down with that! Which leads me to what else shouldn’t be in beer - such as genetically modified organisms. Beer has four ingredients, water, yeast, hops and barley.   Of those four, water is not a substance that can be genetically altered, so it’s fine.   Hops and barley are currently not on a risk list, so they are not likely to contain GMOs.   Yeast, however, is on the high risk list.   Adjuncts like co...

in the wall street journal, the opposite of most craft beer articles apparently some people are not fans of craft beer's takeover of north america and this just in from crannog ales, there are gmo yeasts tainting our beer

infographics are so the new black!

one of the joys of craft beer is that it encourages folks to drink locally produced beer so if you're on that bandwagon how about jumping on the eating local bandwagon too? and make it organic too, where possible look, even doctors agree! avoid over-processing, fructose and gmos support your local (organic) farmer! and, from my lovely naturopath, a handy guide to which fruits and veggies are most important to purchase organic, and which ones you can get away with purchasing regularly - to help stretch your grocery dollars: Shoppers Guide To Pesticides Sometimes we cannot afford to purchase all of our fruit and veggies organic. Here is a list of must-buy organic (highest in pesticides) and may-buy organic (lowest in pesticides) Worst (buy organic) 1. Celery 2. Peaches 3. Strawberry 4.Apples 5.Blueberry 6.Nectarine 7. Bell Peppers 8. Spinach 9. Kale 10. Cherries 11. Potatoes 12. Grapes   Best (low in pesticides) 1. Onions 2. Avocado 3....