re: GMO's and their impact on our weight.

Oh, good Lord, give the "working mothers" schtick a rest. Kids are fat because they eat/are fed too much and don't move around enough. It doesn't matter if they're fed too many organic beets from Whole Foods by a stay-at-home mom who fosters kittens and does Pilates in her spare time, or if they're fed too much Popeyes by a divorced dad who doesn't know how to cook. Too many calories is too many calories; coupled with too little movement, it's the recipe for rampant obesity.

And deer feeders, bird feeders, etc all over the freakin' South are chock full of GMO corn---has anyone noticed any animals selectively picking through mixed feed, avoiding the corn?

I'm no huge fan of cross-species genetic modification, but plant cross breeding is itself a form of controlled genetic modification practiced since ancient times. Not all GMOs are cross-species transfers--they're simply cutting out the traditional methods of plant breeding due to big business pressures of efficiency/expediency.