GMO's: A Growing Concern-Part 1

Do you know about GMO's, or Genetically Modified Organisms?

If you don't, you should know. You are after all consuming them everyday, several times a day. And they are a major threat to our future health.

Of course the FDA and food industry claim that genetically modified foods are safe, properly tested, and necessary to feed a hungry world. TOTALLY FALSE! Genetically modified organisms are one of the most dangerous and radical changes to our food supply. These mostly unregulated ingredients are found in 60-70% of the foods in the US. It takes some education and effort, but trust me, it is worth it to avoid them at all costs, for you and especially for your children (more on that in a future post).

A Quick Rundown of GMO's

Many of our most important crops are being injected by either shooting genes from a gene gun into a plate of cells or by using bacteria to invade the cell with foreign DNA. The altered cell is then cloned into a plant. This process create major damage, causing mutations in hundreds or thousands of locations throughout the plant's DNA. The main reason companies genetically engineer plants is to make them tolerant to their brand of herbicide and pesticide. The "Big Four" major GM plants, soy, corn, canola, and cotton (and now sugar beets) are designed to survive an otherwise deadly dose of weed killer.

(If you are interested in the politics, just google Monsanto and Michael Taylor. It gets bad, but I won't go into that now.)

Why Avoid GM Foods?

A very obvious sign of the danger of GM foods, is that animals offered a choice of GM food or non-GM food will always choose the non-GM food. Even to the point of starvation. Shouldn't we learn something from that??

World renowned biologist Pushpa M. Bhargava states that after reviewing more than 600 scientific journals, it can be concluded that GMOs are a major contributor to the sharply deteriorating health of Americans. Genetic engineering alters genetic codes of the DNA in organisms, creating mutant organisms and dangerously mutating genes. Children are particularly vulnerable because of their rapidly developing systems, and essentially have become the true experimental animals in all this.

Studies were recently finished in Russian on hamsters fed GM soy and the results are truly chilling. By the third generation, those hamsters fed the GM diet were mostly sterile AND had hair growing in their mouth! Disgusting right? Here are the pictures to give you a lovely visual.
I'm sorry, but I really don't want hair growing in my mouth. Creepy!! And this stuff is real. More on this study in Part 3.

So clearly GM foods are unregulated by the government, untested and unapproved. Yet, nearly every mainstream cereal at your local grocery store is made with GM corn and soy. The list goes on and on, and you would never know what you are truly consuming, because it is not required at this time to label a product that is genetically modified. There are a limited amount of organic companies that do label their products as GMO-free, thankfully. But how do we avoid the rest? Find out in the next post.

Stay tuned for Part 2!