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The Nightmare of GM Foods
“You have to know where your food is coming from.” These words of warning were spoken by biologist and plant expert, Arpad Puszati at a gathering of concerned citizens in St. Catherine’s, Ontario earlier this year.1
As far back as 1998, Dr. Puszati’s research at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland showed that genetically modified potatoes caused health problems in rats, including a weakened immune system and abnormal growth. For blowing the whistle on Big Agra, he was dismissed from his job.
Eleven years later, as companies like Monsanto successfully silenced their critics, genetically modified organisms have gained a stronghold in taking over the world’s food supply — in spite of the fact that a growing body of evidence shows the alarming health effects that are being seen in people and animals who are consuming GM foods. But unlike years ago, concerned physicians and scientists are now banding together and advising their patients and the general public to avoid GM foods altogether.
The latest professional group to voice their warnings is the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) who is advising physicians to educate their patients and the medical community about the health risks of GM foods — including “infertility, immune problems, accelerated aging, insulin regulation, and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system.”2
Why are these medical professionals so sure that GM foods are to blame for the growing list of health problems? Because of the reason and method they were manufactured. GM corn and cotton for example, are produced with a built-in pesticide called Bt. When the insect bites the plant, the poison kills it. The problem is that the Bt toxin in GM plants is thousands of times more concentrated and toxic than the spray version — and it cannot be washed off — it’s part of the plant.
And as health professionals for the AAEM have pointed out, there are precious few human studies to document the safety of GM foods. The animal studies however, tell a frightening story.2 Here are just a few examples:
- When GM soy was fed to female rats, most of their babies died within three weeks—compared to a 10% death rate among the control group fed natural soy. When male rats were fed GM soy, their testicles turned from a natural pink to dark blue.
- In India when grazing animals fed on the remainder of harvested GM cotton plants, all of them died including thousands of sheep. Those that grazed on natural cotton plants remained healthy.
- In the US, farmers have reported that thousands of pigs became sterile after eating GM corn.
- In Germany, GM corn is thought to have caused the death of both cows and horses.
There is only one human study so far that demonstrates what GM foods might be doing to us — and it is chilling indeed. The modified gene that is inserted into GM soy transfers into the DNA of our intestinal bacteria and is still functional. This means our own gut flora could continue to produce the pesticide long after we have eaten the food — perhaps forever.2
Could GM foods be the cause of skyrocketing numbers of obesity, diabetes, autism, and even cancer? According to researchers, it may be, but we may never know for sure. The link to GM foods can’t be traced and the onset of the disease may take several years.
But that doesn’t mean we should take any chances, or wait for the results to come in. If Big Agra has its way, any damning evidence that links GM foods to chronic diseases will be stifled and the epidemic of immune and degenerative diseases will continue to rise.
What you can do is stay away from all processed food unless it clearly states on the package that it is organic or made from non-GMO ingredients. According to the Institute for Responsible Technology and the Center for Food Safety, you should also steer clear of soy or corn derivatives, cottonseed and canola oils, and GM sugar beets. These two organizations provide a downloadable Non-GMO Shopping Guide for consumers to refer to help with their food choices.
Let’s not be lab rats for the benefit of Big Agra. Together we can take a stand and just say no to the foods that are not fit for human or animal consumption.
References
- Scientist Issues Genetic Food Warning, January 19, 2009, The St. Catherines Standard (Canada).
- Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food,http://www.responsibletechnology.org/utility/showArticle/?objectID=2989.
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Great information, ez to read and understand. Only 5 foods to avoid, but these foods show up in alot of our choices. My daughter has some medical drama now with digestion, but she has always eaten smart ~ guess what her doctor told her to eat during this time “JELLO”. I have saved your pamplet on her desktop for reference. We just don’t know how much we are doing wrong!
Years ago now David Icke, widely known but(in my opinion) very much under-rated as a ‘conspiracy’ researcher, wrote in one of his books about Dr Puszati’s research work and the KGB-type treatment he received. The talk at the time over here in the UK was that Blair, his puppet strings being pulled by Monsanto, set the whole thing in motion.
Never in all the years since have I read anything in the emails or books of prominent health researchers (mostly in the US) saying WHY these foods should be avoided.
I congratulate you on bringing the dangers of GM to the public’s attention. A 5-star rating!!!
No download link for Non-GMO Shopping Guide that you mentioned.
Keep up the great articles.
thankis
Hmm? I’m guessing your “non-gmo shopping guide” was intended to be a link!?
Thanks for this great article. The French Arte-tv ran a lengthy documentary on Monsanto and its GM(OGM in French)soy; readers can click to read this if still available on the web. French activists anti GM uprooted GM maize farms and received jail sentence for that. The 400gr. packet of precooked soy I bought last friday did not mention it is bio. The danger of infertility does exist. Human race in its self-destructive part talks only of the environment and only few raise awareness of the potential health hazards of GM.
I read your article on GM foods and find it very one sided. You do not provide any links or even research which actually decomposes a GM canola seed vs a regular canola seed (or corn or soybean)and let’s us know what the actual different compositions are and how they are different. You also make it sound like canola has the pesticide bred into it and I believe it does not. I think before you fearmonger everybody into eating non-GM foods you should have real evidence from scientific studies not just the anodotel possibilities you suggest without any real science behind it.
You also do not discuss the fact that GM food products have made it possible to feed a world that is claiming millions of people are starving due to lack of food or that they cannot afford to buy food. If you are prepared to pay 3 to 5 times as much for your food and to subsidize poor nations then you might have the moral high ground to make your claims.
I spend a significant part of each year in Europe.
I am forever amazed to see how difficult it is (near impossible) in Scandinavia to determine the point of origin of foodstuffs.
It’s a bit ironic that the initial “evidence” presented in this article is sourced to Scotland. For all I know, the British insist on better information for consumers, as to where their food is coming from, but I can tell you that if you buy a jar of olives in Sweden, a bag of oranges, a can of tomatoes, or a thousand other things, you cannot determine the source. It is astonishing for a country that enjoys a reputation for consumer information and high standards. Don’t kid yourself. What I am stating is simply fact.
So forgive me if I read the first part of this article and discounted it. Secondarily, one of Europe’s favorite hobby horses is the complaint about GM foods, which many if not most impartial observers recognize as a continuing ploy to restrict North American food imports.
I’m a little disappointed to find this website taking a rather partisan point of view on this issue. More facts please, less ideology.
The information you are providing is important to everyone who will read or listen. They and their friends and families will not hear about this on the television or from the government which no longer seems to care about anyone but big business and money money money. The FDA is proof of this. The US is still using Flouride when other countries have stopped. The US also has prevented treatments from being used here that are being used around the world. They are not doing this out of concern for you and I but for big business. If a natural product is good for you but can not be duplicated in a lab for a profit it is labeled bad and harmful by the FDA. Side effects like those mentioned in the article are acceptable as long as there is enough money in it to pay all those involved. America needs to be more concerned for the people and not big business at the cost of the peoples lifes. While we do have to take care of big business we have failed there as well. We let our last big steel plant go over seas and the price of steel coubled. Go figuer. Nafta works great, NOT so. Everything in the world seems to be made in China at our economies expense. The people need to fight back and vote for those who want to build our economy not bury with debt that is not working or make our health care government run, and model it after the very poor Canadian system the new government leaders think is so great. Only the stupid beleive this. The problem is there are to many stupid people ready to support and continue down this path. Fight back with where and how you spend your money. Start today!
It’s disturbing that people like this seem to speak with authority on this subject. The author of this tabloid trash seems to lack even basic understanding on the process involved in creating GM plants. Nothing is ever perfect and there are isolated test done in third rate enviroments which can dicredited the GM process. The GM process is nothing more then the natural evolution extending from the work of plant breeders which has been part of agriculture since the first crops were sown. GM plants have greatly increased both the volume and quality of the worlds food supply. Because of this prices have been kept very low. As I producer I’d be happy to recieve 20-30 dollars per bushel for my Canola. Because of GM food production has increased so significatly that the price is $10. Consumers can boycott GM foods, but should be prepared to pay 2-3 times more for there groceries and recieve lower quality products. Lets not even go into what would happen to our poorer nations is their food supplies were reduced even more!
This article is a good start to research more on GM foods. It is a known fact that organic foods have more nutrition in them than mass produced food. There are always going to be starving people so producing GM foods to feed a growing population isn’t really a solution. What is a solution is training these people to farm and produce their own food locally. Don’t give me your bleeding heart ideology that GM foods feed millions, sure it may but we then have all these sick people who now depend on healthcare and they can’t afford that either. Look at the list of ingredients on most packaging and you will find CORN!! Since find out I’m allergic and removing most processed foods from my diet I am a much healthier person. Amazing…do the research.
This is just horrible! What are they trying to do?
Killing the human race as well as the animals.
We must be living in the end.
Best regards Chris.
If we murder from anger or rage and are caught, we pay with our lives one day at a time in a cage. If we murder for profit, we are businessmen who deserve to make a profit. What’s all this talk about values at election time?
Thank you for this notification… I surly appreciate it.
PLEASE SHOW SOME LINKS AND PROVE WHAT YOUR SAYING.IT ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO MONEY DOESNT IT.
5 FOODS WE SHOULDNT EAT …WHAT FOODS????
MONEY TALKS AND BULLSHIT WALKS…DOESNT IT??
SILVERBILL
The article led to a link that had to be purchased so a lot of good that did. That was a waste of time, why not put the names of the five foods if they are so important ? Thanks for nothing.
Legislation that mandates the labeling of GM food products was introduced by Ohio Senator Dennis Kucinich in 2002, but it has yet to be voted on. Americans have been ingesting bio-engineered foods for a decade or two, but nobody in Congress seems to be in a hurry to let us know about it or discuss the long-term effects.
In Japan, their government requires labeling of GM foods. Their government is very concerned about the effects that GM food may cause in children. One government official there has stated off the record that rather than spend billions of dollars researching this, they will simply ‘watch the kids in the U.S. for the next 10 years’.
A good source for more information on this subject is a documentary by Deborah Koons Garcia, 2004, “The Future of Food”. This documentary examines agribusiness’ aggressive push for genetically modified food, and how the farming community is responding. You can do a search, and watch it for free on the web.
Another source of information on GM food is the new movie “Food, Inc.” (shown in almost NO theaters) and the book of the same name, subtitled, “How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter and Poorer - and What You Can Do About It.” Details can be found at the web site http://www.foodincmovie.com.
Hope this helps.
This article educates the public about making better choices in selecting our food. I don’t understand the companies that sell GMO seeds. If everyone is sick and are dying, who’s left to buy their products? Another thing, what in the ham sandwich do the people who advocate buying this poison eat?
This is a great info and I think can be use by Plan Parenthood to control population and the American precident will make you a part of his Cabinete ,can be use to feed unresponsable human males from making to many single mothers in wellfare!!!!!!!
Great article, keep up the good work.
Those who believe that the GMO food is great….please keep on eating it….you will find out the hard way like many others have..This is just another form of of modern day natural selection to get rid of dumb sheeple. There is no shortage of credible research to prove that GM foods are not in our best interests for good health.Just do a google search….if you really want to know.