Not to start a GMO debate here, but in all honesty if you want to try some beet pulp for your horses in my opinion I don't think the GMO or non GMO debate should stop you from trying beet pulp and I don't think you should worry you are doing anything bad or that your are not being a good horse mommy by considering feeding beet pulp to your horses.
Of one concern I have is that world wide the average age of farmers is over 60 and young folks are not going into agriculture. It is a sad thing when folks can't make a living growing food. When your non GMO corn blows down with the smallest puff of autumn wind and you pay 8 bucks a bushel for purchased corn to feed your cows over the winter, only to have your milk prices drop and you find that sending a gorgeous 110 lb per day milking cow to slaughter is more profitable than processing the expensive feed through her for the milk, and your government allows imported weird milk product into your cheese and allows the big name cheese folks to still call it american cheese instead of american cheese product... ... well.... anyway...Even amish are quitting farming and dairy farming in record numbers. My question from a farming standpoint is... "who is going to grow our food?" I think it is most important to protect our USA grown food sources. USA farmers do a great job. I tip my hat to anybody surviving by farming and by growing food for us.
My horses did not like beet pulp, but I have friends whose horses love it. I have mostly heard of folks soaking it to remove the molasses and then feeding it. My guys chucked their feed tubs on the ground and maybe I should have tried easing them into the new feed. I mostly feed enrich 32 and some really fine grass hay and my chubby boy gets some Quiessence on his feed.
best wishes folks...PS, I am NOT knocking those of you who are concerned and do not feed GMO feed... That is the beauty of having a CHOICE. Please do not fry me or turn this into a debate and get us deleted... I applaude those of you who are aware of what is in your food and are concerned, but I also think there is more to be learned. I avoid MSG, Aspartame, weird milk products... hydrogenated stuff, but on occasion might be seen eating poptarts or oreos LOL...., we all have our individual things we avoid or do not like seeing in our food. What does scare me is the high cost of food and would like to see more effort put into making it affordable for farmers to bring us the food we want to buy and feed and eat. cheers.. please don't fry me folks. I am not knocking the other poster and I enjoy all views and enjoy reading different view points. If everybody agreed with each other we would sure live in a very boring world... just tickling a hopefully polite other view and awareness in the spirit of this wonderful forum.