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Genetically Modified Foods – GMO’s

Learn Their Dangers and Health Hazards

Scientific Studies have proven that Genetic Modification of foods can cause cancer and create Allergies, Toxins, Antibiotic Resistant Diseases, Carcinogenic, Anti-Nutritional and other Nutritional Problems. Monsanto and our government have opened a Pandora’s Box in our food Supply which can create serious Health Hazards for all who ingest these Genetically Modified products.

Few people would eat Monsanto’s “genetically modified food” if they understood what it was or knew that they were eating it. President Obama and his family won’t eat it. Neither did the Bush family. Even a Monsanto employee cafeteria rejects it. This is no laughing matter! Your health and the health of your children and grandchildren are at stake. It seems more like a scene from a horror flick than something happening in modern day America. Imagine your digestive tract turned into a Roundup Ready herbicide factory and other warped genetic signals slowly and progressively rotting away your health. Unlike acute food poisoning from infectious E.coli, it is a slow and insidious poisoning.

Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM) of food involves the laboratory process of artificially inserting genes into the DNA of food crops or animals. The result is called a genetically modified organism or GMO. GMOs can be engineered with genes from bacteria, viruses, insects, animals or even humans. Most Americans say they would not eat GMOs if labeled, but unlike most other industrialized countries , the United States (U.S.) does not require labeling.

The people must know the dangers and what GMO or Genetically Modified Foods are to arm themselves with knowledge on protecting themselves and their familys. Many countries have banned the sale of GMO’s. There are good reasons that are scientifically proven. If you arm yourself with the knowledge we are providing you in this blog, you will be doing what we all should do to make our lives richer and healthier. Please share this information with everyone you know and care about.

Genetic Modification or Biotechnology of our food supply is, in my opinion, opening a Pandora’s Box in our food supply.

As I try to explain how Genetically Modified Foods came about, I am starting with a video that will explain just how our country and it’s administration has been irresponsible in allowing these dangerous foods in our food chain. Greed seems to have overtaken our leaders and corporations causing them to disregard the public food safety.

First you need to know what Genetically Modified Foods are and how this proceedure is done. See the video below for a good explanation of Genetically Engineered Food and Seed.

What is Genetic Engineering or Genetically Modified Foods?

I also have other videos below that will explain the dangers of GMO’s. Remember, knowledge is Power and it could save you and your loved ones lives. Watch the information provided and make your own determinations.

I am also adding this FREE Non-GMO Shopping Guide to help you avoid these dangerous Genetically Modified Foods. The Non-GMO Shopping Guide is designed to help reclaim your right to know about the foods you are buying, and help you find and avoid GMO foods and ingredients. Use this in Good Health for you and your family. This is Guide is a Lifesaver and it can be easily printed. Please print and use this guide to protect you and your family. Here is another Color Coded Shopping Guide for your convienence.

There are four major food groups, the basic rule is to avoid the following foods: Soy, Corn, Cotton-seed and Canola. More information is available at www.seedsofdeception.com.

The video below “The Future Of Food” offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind genetic engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.

Here is an excerpt of a page you need to read as well: Monsanto plans to unleash its latest Frankenfood experiment on the American and Canadian public. “In the 2010 growing season Monsanto plans to unleash its latest Frankenfood experiment on the American and Canadian public, a new version of genetically mutated corn with eight abnormal gene traits called Genuity SmartStax corn. It is the culmination of an astonishing scandal that has been steadily building over the past decade. During this time Monsanto’s mutated seeds have grown to 90% of the U.S. soy crop and 85% of the corn crop – and wheat is next on their agenda. Their efforts have been marked by corporate bullying and have drawn the attention of the Justice Department who is conducting an antitrust investigation. All the while they have been spending millions on lobbying to fast track their agenda before the American public even realizes what hit them. Monsanto is making an ominous power play to corner the worldwide market on food and seeds. In the process they are adversely altering the very nature of food itself.”

The Health Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods

Videos are by Jeffery M. Smith

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Man has been “genetically modifying” everything from food to dogs for many centuries; but in the past, the only tool has been selective breeding. For example, if you wanted to create a breed of corn with resistance to a certain fungus, you would plant a plot of corn and see how individual plants did with the fungus. Then you would take seeds from the plants that did well, plant them, look at their performance against the fungus… and so on over the years until you had created a strain of corn plant that had very high resistance to the fungus in question.

Using selective breeding techniques, people have created everything from variegated roses to giant pumpkins to strains of wheat with twice the yield and very high disease tolerance. In the same way, you can take chickens, analyze their eggs and find chickens with eggs that contain less cholesterol. Then you can breed them to create a strain of low-cholesterol chickens. You can select on any detectable trait and selectively breed members of the species that do well on that trait.

Genetic engineering techniques now allow scientists to insert specific genes into a plant or animal without having to go through the trial-and-error process of selective breeding. Genetic engineering is therefore extremely rapid compared to selective breeding. With genetic engineering, you can also cross species very easily (for example, you can create a plant that produces human insulin). You can read the article How Cells Work to learn about DNA, genes and gene splicing. The techniques are now standard and genes can be spliced very easily.

There are a variety of techniques used to modify plants and animals through genetic engineering. For example, there is a widely used herbicide called Roundup, made by Monsanto. Roundup kills any plant that it touches. Monsanto has genetically modified soybeans and other crop plants to create “Roundup Ready” strains that are not affected by Roundup. By planting Roundup Ready seeds, a farmer can control weeds by spraying Roundup right over the crop. The crop completely ignores the herbicide, but the weeds are eliminated. Roundup Ready seeds reduce production costs and increase yield, so food becomes less expensive. Other scientists have inserted genes that produce a natural insecticide into corn plants to eliminate damage from corn borers, and a variety of anti-fungal genes can be inserted as well. The list goes on and on — there really is no limit to what can be done.

Below I have listed some enviromental hazards, human health risks and economic concerns that we all should be concerned about.

Environmental hazards

Human Health Risks

Economic concerns

Bringing a GM food to market is a lengthy and costly process, and of course agri-biotech companies wish to ensure a profitable return on their investment. Many new plant genetic engineering technologies and GM plants have been patented, and patent infringement is a big concern of agribusiness. Yet consumer advocates are worried that patenting these new plant varieties will raise the price of seeds so high that small farmers and third world countries will not be able to afford seeds for GM crops, thus widening the gap between the wealthy and the poor. It is hoped that in a humanitarian gesture, more companies and non-profits will follow the lead of the Rockefeller Foundation and offer their products at reduced cost to impoverished nations.

Patent enforcement may also be difficult, as the contention of the farmers that they involuntarily grew Monsanto-engineered strains when their crops were cross-pollinated shows. One way to combat possible patent infringement is to introduce a “suicide gene” into GM plants. These plants would be viable for only one growing season and would produce sterile seeds that do not germinate. Farmers would need to buy a fresh supply of seeds each year. However, this would be financially disastrous for farmers in third world countries who cannot afford to buy seed each year and traditionally set aside a portion of their harvest to plant in the next growing season. In an open letter to the public, Monsanto has pledged to abandon all research using this suicide gene technology.

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