What exactly is this corn I am eating?!

So I popped into a locally owned fine food store, Wills & Co. this afternoon to pick up a few things and when I walked through the door an interesting sign caught my eye.  It made reference to local organic corn being in, and that it was not Monsanto.  What on earth is Monsanto I thought?!  And why isn't it good?  So after buying some of this organic, local, non Monsanto corn I headed home and googled what exactly Monsanto is.

So thanks to Wikipedia, I now know that Monsanto is an multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation and the leading producer of genetically modified seed.  What on earth does that mean?  So again, thanks to Wikipedia:

"Genetically modified foods (or GM foods) are foods derived from genetically modified organisms. Genetically modified organisms have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering techniques. These techniques are much more precise^[1] than mutagenesis (mutation breeding) where an organism is exposed to radiation or chemicals to create a non-specific but stable change. Other techniques by which humans modify food organisms include selective breeding; plant breeding, and animal breeding, and somaclonal variation."

Who knew?! I certainly didn't.  So does this mean that all the corn I have been buying in my regular grocery store is all genetically modified?  There doesn't really seem to be a clear answer to this.  In the process of my Internet search I did come across an interesting pamphlet produced by Greenpeace, "How to Avoid Genetically Engineered Food - A Greenpeace Shoppers Guide", http://gmoguide.greenpeace.ca/shoppers_guide.pdf
Turns out that a lot of the processed foods I purchase for my family on a regular basis contain genetically engineered ingredients.  Even baby formula is on the list!
Now don't get me wrong, I am not saying I will never purchase any of the products on the list, but it would be nice to know that these products contained genetically engineered ingredients.  Looks like I have a little reading to do to make myself and informed consumer.

So why am I posting this here, in a blog about my family's garden?  Well we did plant corn in our garden...I would like to think it is organic, non Monsanto corn...but who knows...guess I should have checked the plants I bought.