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US Consumers Have Been Given a False Sense of Security
About the Safety of Our Food Supply You may
have heard the FDA and food industry claims that genetically modified (GM) foods are safe, properly tested, and necessary
to feed a hungry world. UNTRUE! Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are one of the most dangerous and radical changes to our food supply. These largely unregulated ingredients found in 60-70% of
the foods in the US, are well worth the effort to avoid them. Many consumers in the US mistakenly believe that the FDA approves GM foods through rigorous, in-depth, long-term
studies. In reality, the agency has absolutely no safety testing requirements. Instead the agency relies on research from
companies like Monsanto, research that is meticulously designed to avoid finding problems. It’s easy to understand the FDA’s industry-friendly policy on regulation of GMOs
when you see the revolving door between agency regulators and the companies they regulate. The White House mandate to the
FDA (under the first George Bush) was to promote biotechnology and the person in charge of developing the agency’s policy
at that time was a former Monsanto attorney, who later returned to Monsanto as their vice president. The FDA has claimed it was not aware of any information showing that GM crops were different
“in any meaningful or uniform way,” from non-GMO crops and therefore didn’t require testing. But 44,000
internal FDA documents made public by a lawsuit show that this was a complete lie. The overwhelming consensus among the FDA’s
own scientists was that GM foods were quite different and could lead to unpredictable and hard-to-detect allergens, toxins,
new diseases and nutritional problems. It turns out that FDA scientists, who had urged superiors to require long-term studies,
were ignored. See, Failed Government Regulation. Even though evidence of this apparent fraud at the
FDA was presented at a Washington, D.C. press conference in 1999 with major media in attendance, the media didn’t alert
the public. In fact, most Americans know so little about this subject, that only about 1 in 4 consumers even know if
they’ve ever eaten a GM food in their lives, even though the vast majority of processed foods contain derivatives from
the four major GM crops: soy, corn, cottonseed and canola. See, GM Foods at a Glance.
NON - GMO SHOPPING LIST PDF.
The Health Risks of Eating GMOs
GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMOs) ARE ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS AND RADICAL CHANGES
TO OUR FOOD SUPPLY In 1999, Dr. Arpad Pusztai, the world’s top GMO
safety researcher at the prestigious Rowett Institute in Scotland was working on a UK government grant to design long-term
testing protocols intended to become part of the official European GM food safety assessment process. When Pusztai fed supposedly
harmless GMOs to rats, they developed potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, smaller brains, livers and testicles, partially
atrophied livers, and showed signs of a damaged immune system. Moreover, the results clearly indicated that the cause of the
problem was due to the unpredictable side effects arising from the process of genetic engineering itself. In other words,
his study suggested that the GM foods already on the market, which were created from the same process, might also create such
effects. When Dr Pusztai expressed his concern he was fired from his job of 35 years and silenced with threats of a lawsuit.
His 20-member research team was disbanded, all testing protocols were abandoned, and the pro-GM establishment embarked on
an extensive disinformation campaign to discredit the study’s results to protect the reputation of GM foods already
in the marketplace. When an invitation to testify before Parliament allowed Pusztai
to finally tell his alarming story, all hell broke loose. The outpouring of news coverage, said to one columnist, “divided
society into two warring blocs” over the GM food issue. An industry wide rejection of GMOs was reached quickly thanks
to the buying power of consumers who convinced manufacturers to keep GMOs out of the European Union, in spite of official
approvals by the pro-GM European Commission.
Dr. Arpad Pusztai - Interview 1
Dr. Arpad Pusztai - Interview 2
GMO's: The Scariest Human Experiment of All Time! Watch the below video clips:
Intro video to GMO and Food
GMO VS OBESITY - PART 1
GMO VS OBESITY - PART 2
GMO - Jeffrey M. Smith - Full Length Interview
Monsanto: Bovine Growth Hormones, GMO Food
Genetically Modified Foods Interview
Genetic engineering: The world's greatest scam?
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