Healthy Eating Means No GMOs

[nosmokes]

While health is certainly a concern of mine, I'm still far more more worried about the effects of GMOs on the environment and the implications of life forms, specifically basic food stuffs like grain, being patented and controlled by multi national corporations that are accountable to no one

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Healthy Eating Means No GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms)

By Jeffrey M. Smith

You may have heard that genetically modified (GM) foods are safe, properly tested, and necessary to feed a hungry world. UNTRUE! Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), introduced into our food supply in the mid-1990s, are one of history’s most dangerous and radical changes in our diet. These largely unregulated ingredients are in 60-70% of the foods in the US, but are well worth efforts to avoid them.
Fortunately, health-conscious retailers, distributors, manufacturers, and growers are now participating in The Campaign for Healthier Eating in America, which will eliminate GMOs from thousands of products. This will make it easier for you to feed your family a healthier “non-GMO” diet and may even end the genetic engineering of the entire US food supply. This industry-wide rejection of GMOs can be achieved by a “tipping point,” in which a sufficient number of shoppers in the US avoiding GM ingredients force the major food companies to stop using them.

Informed European Shoppers Say No to GMOs

Europe reached the tipping point in April 1999 and within a single week, virtually all major manufacturers publicly committed to stop using GM ingredients in their European brands. This consumer-led revolt against GMOs in the EU was generated by a February 1999 media firestorm after a top GMO safety researcher, Dr. Arpad Pusztai, was “ungagged by Parliament” and able to tell this alarming story to the press.

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[DemBones DemBones]

1. Amen to that. We should not be lab rats but

we are, because the FDA refuses to tell us whether foods contain GMOs or not.

The FDA is a disgrace. Did you hear that they were going to eliminate HALF of their field stations (labs) to manage under Bush's budget cuts? They are also talking about outsourcing 300 some jobs! They claim these would be administrative, but I've worked in a quality control lab and it's like anyplace else: administrators can order you to suppress information or falsify reports. You can do it, quit, or be fired. I doubt it's any different with the FDA.

[Double T]

2. corporate america needs to maximize its profit at ALL costs..........

and if GMO will obtain their goal, NOTHING ELSE matters. It's a damn shame what the USA has become and bushco has a HUGE stake in engineering this mess.

[soothsayer]

3. death to monsatan!

[SpiralHawk]

4. Don't want no steenkin republicon mutant cloned chemo facsimile food product

Blowing chunks at the thought of republicon Homelander GMO crapola food

[marions ghost]

6. ! ditto !

argh

[Lethe]

5. i agree but GMO will have to become a reality in the future

humans are multiplying exponentially and will eventually reach a growth limiting factor in the form of food supply. (not exactly sure but will be within 100-200 years, maybe sooner) Humans will need every resource they can to survive and create a food supply large enough for everyone.

Personally, I don't want to be a lab rat either though. Sometime in the future buying non-GMO will be cost prohibitive for most of us.

[nosmokes]

7. That's biotech propaganda. We can feed the world with organics, as a

number of studies have shown. And so far, in every aspect that GMO is supposed to be our saviour such as drought resistance or higher nutrional value, organics have outperformed them, and managed to do it while building healthy soil and not contaminating an ounce of water or polluting the air with petrochemical 'inputs' or pesticides. If you think non-GMO food is expensive, wait until you see what the price of food produced with oil on top of oil transported by oil is.

[Lethe]

8. i would be interested in reading some of your sources

for further review. What I've been reading is not propaganda (that I know of), it's information taken from scientific textbooks, journals, and classes.

[nosmokes]

9. Here's a few

You can google more

Can Organic Farming “Feed the World”?
Christos Vasilikiotis, Ph.D.



University of Michigan study

Worldwatch Institute