Since much of corn is GMO, how safe is eating corn on the cob?

Most folks eat sweet corn, not "field" or "horse" corn, and to my knowledge there is no GMO sweetcorn yet on the market. read more

The corn you eat today was subject to millennia of deliberate genetic modification via selective breeding and hybridization. That is true of just about everything you eat."GMO" is"OMG" backwards, and indeed, there's plenty of"OMG GMO!" over it."GMO" is such a broad term as not to mean anything in itself. read more

And until 2012, we were safe from GMOs if we ate fresh, frozen, and canned sweet corn. But then unbeknownst to many, GMO sweet corn quietly crept onto supermarket shelves. read more

People eat sweet corn fresh on or off the cob, frozen or canned. Some 28,000 American farmers grew 3.1 billion pounds of sweet corn in 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, generating a market valued at $822 million in 2012 (USDA 2012a). read more