Many cultural traditions eat fermented vegetables on New Years Day to bring good fortune. Folklore has it that the long threads of sauerkraut potentially represent a long life. Greens are also associated with money and thus thought to bring good fortune. A practical reason for the tradition may be because cabbage is a late fall crop, and the best way to preserve it for the winter is by making sauerkraut. However, these traditional reasons to eat sauerkraut are trumped by a thoroughly modern concern not based in myth.

Dr Don Huber, an expert in the area of science that relates to the toxicity of genetically engineered (GE) food, has revealed a number of facts about the catastrophic alteration and destruction of our environment, our food supply and our biology. Huber explained that GE crops not only destroy healthy soil microbes, but they also destroy healthy gut flora. Healthy gut flora prevent colonization by disease causing bacteria.

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