What makes you think that's safe? Your prejudice against plastic and cardboard packaging won't help you, Lumpy. Unless you personally verified the quality of the food, water, and air going into the animals whose carcasses are being carved up at the meat counter, as well as the drugs they may have been given, you're not really any safer. The beef you get, for example, was fed with a mixture that included the extracts of OF THE FAT OF OTHER COWS, which I'm told is permitted only in some countries. (I think Japan, for instance, had the good sense to outlaw this...) since the cows can pass diseases to each other this way. It's how they make extra money off the fat they can't do anything else with, they use it to make the other cows fatter without having to buy or produce more of the other ingredients, like hay, corn, molasses, etc. I can't imagine they do things much different with other animals. As for the wheat, since the GMO wheat you're so scared of is modified before it even goes in the ground, making your own pasta won't help you, since you'll be using flour made from the same wheat. Here's what you need to do, Lump, if you really want to live "healthy" without the fear you will be contaminated by FrankenFood. Live in a cave, thousands of miles from anyone else. Raise all your own crops yourself, inside the cave, seal it off from the outside world, so the bad air won't contaminate them. Purify your own air and water, use NO spices you didn't also grow yourself. Test all the seeds and plants and animals you started with, to ensure no GMO contamination, etc., and prepare to live a miserable, sad, lonely existence. You know what, this would be way easier to do on a spaceship, or space station, off earth altogether. Why not just get off the planet, since there are so many dangers here you might eat something "bad". By the way, do you like corn? You do know that corn, A.K.A. maize, is something the Native Americans/Mexicans modified from thousands of years ago, when it started out as a species of grass, right? So no matter how pure you might think corn is, for instance, it's not. That goes for many of our other crops and animals, (domesticated) though not to the extent corn has been. You just can't get away from it, so might as well enjoy it.