{"id":5,"date":"2012-11-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/shelleyhobbs\/gmo-candy-must-see\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:55:15","slug":"gmo-candy-must-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/shelleyhobbs\/gmo-candy-must-see\/","title":{"rendered":"GMO Candy MUST SEE, What Are We Giving Our Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>GMO Candy:<\/h2>\n<h3>Halloween may be behind us, but who knows how long all of the GMO\u2019s will live in our system and what it does to us over time.<\/h3>\n<p>I bet you have a ton of this\u00a0GMO candy\u00a0sitting around your home from last weeks halloween festivities. Even more, with the holiday\u2019s coming up, there is just a different marketing purpose for all of it.<\/p>\n<p>GMO candy is everywhere we look! Just LOOK at the mainstream varieties in the GMO candy graphic below.\u00a0Skittles, Dum Dums, Kit Kat, Candy Corn, M&amp;M\u2019s, Twix, Snickers, Reese\u2019s to name a few Halloween favorites\u2026\u2026..YIKES!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>GMO CANDY:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is GMO? Genetically Modified Organisms.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen a gene from one organism is purposely moved to improve or change another organism in a laboratory, the result is a genetically modified organism (GMO). It is also sometimes called \u201ctransgenic\u201d for transfer of genes. Gross right?!<\/p>\n<p>I got this cool <em>GMO candy<\/em> infographic from\u00a0The GIVE Project\u00a0on Facebook (they have a ton of other cool information too). They have put together this infographic displaying some of the most popular candy that is given away to children who trick or treat on Halloween. This year, please be informed and aware of what you are giving to the children as treats. All of the candies displayed in the infographic contain Genetically\u00a0Modified Organisms (GMOs) \u2014 Please be sure to share this information with your friends so they can be aware and informed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I have a confession<\/strong>, I did not take my kiddos trick or treating this year (and never have in all of their young lives) for a few reasons;<br \/>\n&#8211; They are only 2 and 4<br \/>\n&#8211; Halloween is really a time for <em>kids to beg for candy, men to dress like women, and women to dress like hookers<\/em> (I hope you are laughing at that, but really it\u2019s true when you take a close look at it. )<br \/>\n&#8211; The actual creatures and scary monsters, scare my children. I don\u2019t want to expose them to that or anything about Halloween <em><strong>\u2018on purpose.\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thing is, I\u2019m not trying to hide Halloween and GMO candy from them, I\u2019ve just taken a stand for <em>not \u2018pushing them into it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They will have plenty of years in the future to be naturally exposed to it and there will be little I can do about it. But why now? At such a young age?<\/p>\n<h3>Back to GMO candy\u2026..<\/h3>\n<p>Check out what the FoodBabe has to say about GMO\u2019s in our food \u00a0\u2013 she is taking it to Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of healthier options out there for for our children, substituting GMO candy, that are \u00a0just as tasty. Just search \u00a0\u2019natural candy stores online\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Below is another info graphic for <strong>non-GMO candy<\/strong> also put together by \u00a0The GIVE Project\u00a0on Facebook.<br \/>So, there you have it, GMO candy that you probably never knew was so harmful to your little bugaboo\u2019s and your own health.<\/p>\n<p>Choose the healthier options of non-gmo candy. If that\u2019s the only option you provide, your family will either grow to like it, or choose other options like pure natural fruits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out\u00a0the Give project<\/strong> \u2014 they do some really cool community based volunteer projects\u2026..like juicing events for the homeless. Here are a few video\u2019s about what they do:<\/p>\n<p>I particularly LOVE this next video. I am a HUGE advocate of juicing and we do it in our house daily! My kids love juicing and shakes and I know it packs a nutritional boost to their bodies. I love that the GIVE projects juices for the homeless. Kind of makes me cry when I see the kids.<\/p>\n<h2><span>BEFORE YOU LEAVE\u2026..<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Thanks for stopping by today! Are you a blogger, business owner, online entrepreneur, or stay at home parent or caregiver that simply likes the thought of <strong>being able to make a significant income from a simple low tech blog<\/strong> that the search engines LOVE (like this one you are on right now)?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>If YES<\/strong><\/em> or just curious\u2026\u2026.be sure to <strong>click on the video at the very top of this page or side bar of this page<\/strong>, or, I\u2019ll just make it easy for you and you can CLICK HERE.<br \/>\nSee how I (and 60k+ other people world wide) have made the <a href=\"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/what-happened-to-empower-network\/\">Empower Network<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/courses\/viral-blogging-academy\/\">viral blogging<\/a> system our preferred blog to share info with people like you\u2026.and <strong>get paid significantly for it<\/strong>. BELIEVE IT!!!)<\/p>\n<h3>Have an awesome (and hopefully GMO candy free day)!!<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/356\/2012\/11\/signature.png\" alt=\"shelley hobbs\" width=\"274\" height=\"85\"\/><\/p>\n<div>Email: shelley@shelleyhobbs.com<br \/>\nDirect: 623.308.0333<\/p>\n<div><strong>Connect with me! I\u2019m real. I don\u2019t bite. I promise! <\/strong><br \/>\nFB:\u00a0facebook.com\/workwithshelley<\/div>\n<div>My Blog:\u00a0funworkathomefamily.com<br \/>\nYouTube:\u00a0youtube.com\/shelleyhobbstv<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GMO Candy: Halloween may be behind us, but who knows how long all of the GMO\u2019s will live in our system and what it does to us over time. I bet you have a ton of this\u00a0GMO candy\u00a0sitting around your home from last weeks halloween festivities. Even more, with the holiday\u2019s coming up, there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,9,10,11,12],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-empower-network-viral-blogging-system","tag-give-project","tag-gmo-candy","tag-gmo-halloween-candy","tag-non-gmo-candy","tag-the-give-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/shelleyhobbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/shelleyhobbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/shelleyhobbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/shelleyhobbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/shelleyhobbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/shelleyhobbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/shelleyhobbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/shelleyhobbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/shelleyhobbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/shelleyhobbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/shelleyhobbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}