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1) Further Resources
2) Article of Dr. Joe Mercola interviewing Jeffrey Smith
3) GMO - Practical solutions of what you and everyone can do
(scroll down to:How to Sniff Out GMOs & Vote with Your Pocketbook
4) (Click link -->) Further steps to join our Non GMO Project and movement
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Further Resources:
GMO Brochure - 2 pages to explain GMO's -
print out, post somewhere, e-mail, or mail
State of the Science - Health Care Risks
Best
Comprehensive interview of Jeffrey Smith, explaining in a practical way
the problem and how massive it is in our food supply, the science, and
a proposed solution (on the website : www.ResponsibleTechnology.org)
American Academy of Environmental Medicine - Policy Statement on GMO's
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Great article written by Dr. Joseph Mercola with an interview of
Jeffrey Smith - the amazing leader in this GMO movement. www.ResponsibleTechnology.org
Warning: This Common Food (GMO's) Causes
Devastating Offspring Defects in New Research Study
Posted By Dr. Joseph Mercola | May 22 2010
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/22/jeffrey-smith-interview-april-24.aspx
In this interview, Jeffrey Smith, author of the bestsellers
Seeds of
Deception, and Genetic Roulette,
discusses the latest GMO research
findings coming out of Russia,
which adds fuel to previous concerns about
long-term sterility
and other highly bizarre physiological side effects.
Sources:
The Voice of Russia April 16, 2010
Jeffrey Smith Interview Transcript (PDF)
Huffington Post April 20, 2010
I strongly believe that one of the most obvious clues about the danger of GMO
foods are that just about EVERY species of animal that is offered a GMO food
versus a non-GMO food will avoid the GMO one. Many times they will do this
to the point of starvation, as they have an intuitive sense of the danger of this food.
Please listen to the interview as Jeffery expands on this point in great detail.
It’s one you can use to effectively share with your friends and family
who are not yet convinced of the dangers of GMO foods. If you have more time
with them you can bring up the sterility argument that is expanded upon
with these new research findings. You might have read this before that genetically
modified foods may cause sterility in future generations but now the latest research
from Russia provides shocking confirmation of this potential.
This study, which was conducted by the Russian equivalent of the US National
Association for Gene Security, has not yet been published, but its findings
were recently announced. It’s anticipated that the details will be published later
this summer.
Russian Scientists Find Third Generation of Hamsters Sterilized by GM Soy
The release of this new information provides yet another health risk,
and
confirmation on earlier problems related to fertility, birth weight of
offspring, and
infant mortality. In this feeding study they used hamsters, an animal which
has not been previously featured in GM safety studies.
One group of hamsters was fed a normal diet without any soy whatsoever,
a second group was fed non-GMO soy, a third ate GM soy, and a fourth group
ate an even higher amount of GM soy than the third.
Using the same genetically modified (GM) soy that is produced on over 90 %
of the soy acreage in the US, the hamsters and their offspring were fed
their
respective diets over a period of two years, during which time the
researchers
evaluated three generations of hamsters.
First they took five pairs of hamsters from each group, each of which
produced
about seven to eight litters each, totaling about 140 animals.
At first all went well, but serious problems became apparent when they
selected
new pairs from the offspring. The first problem was that this second
generation
had a slower growth rate and reached their sexual maturity later than normal.
However, this second generation eventually generated another 39 litters:
- The no-soy control group had 52 pups
- The non-GM soy had 78
- The GM soy had only 40, of which 25 percent died
So these second-generation GM soy-fed hamsters had a five-fold higher
infant
mortality rate, compared to the 5 percent normal death rate
that was happening
in the controls.
Nearly All of the Third-Generation GMO Babies Were Sterile!
But then an even bigger problem became apparent, because nearly all of
the third generation hamsters lost the ability to have babies altogether.
Only a single third-generation female hamster gave birth to 16 pups, and
of those,
one fifth died. In short, nearly the entire third generation of GM soy eaters were
sterile! But it doesn’t end there.
In the GM soy-fed groups they also found an unusually high prevalence of
an
otherwise extremely rare phenomenon – hair growing inside the animals’ mouths.
(You can see the images here.)
Says Smith:
“… it’s a very rare phenomenon but he [study author, Dr. Surov]
had
never in his life seen more hair in mouths of hamsters than with these
GM soy-fed, 3rd generation hamsters.” As you may know, genetically modified crops
weren’t released until 1996,
starting with GM soy, corn and cotton.
Modified canola came about a year later. Please remember humans have MUCH
longer life spans than rats and that
GMO foods were only introduced in 1996.
This is LESS than one generation. So we’re still nowhere near seeing the full effects
of these potential ramifications
in humans, as we’re only about 15 years into it.
But if the effects are
anything like the effects on numerous types of animals,
we could be looking at
sterility on a grand scale as our great-grandchildren grow up
and begin to try to procreate... The fact that the US is completely unwilling
to implement the precautionary principle with regards to GM foods is
incomprehensible in light of the findings we already have from animal studies.
Additionally, some 800 genetically engineered food applications have
been
submitted to the USDA, but not one single environmental impact statement
has been prepared. So not only are human health ramifications ignored,
but the entire eco system is being jeopardized.
Rampant Conflicts of Interest Put You and Your Family at Great Risk
Unfortunately, it’s clear that the US government is not in a position to
make
reasonable and responsible decisions related to GMOs at this point,
when
you consider the fact that the Obama administration has placed
former Monsanto
attorney and Vice President, Michael Taylor,
in charge of US food safety, and
serious conflicts of interest even reign
supreme within the US Supreme Court !
That’s right. Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas is also a former Monsanto attorney, but
refuses to acknowledge any conflict of interest as he’s hearing Monsanto’s
third appeal for deregulation of genetically modified alfalfa seeds.
After corn, soy and wheat, alfalfa is the most widely grown crop in the
US,
so allowing GM alfalfa to be deregulated could spell disaster in several
ways.
It’s easily cross-pollinated by bees and wind, and it’s a perennial,
meaning
GM alfalfa could live on for years, spreading their genetically
modified traits far
and wide for a long period of time. It remains to be seen how Justice Thomas
rules in this case… But in addition to conflicts of interest, we’re also dealing with
government agencies that refuse to acknowledge the science produced by their own scientists.
Closely tied to the production of GM crops is the use of the herbicide
Roundup,
which contains glyphosate. Monsanto’s Roundup is the most widely used
herbicide
in the world, and contrary to the popular belief propagated by
industry, pesticide
use has significantly increased – DOUBLED since 2005 --
rather than decreased
with the use of GM crops. As it turns out, this is a serious problem for more reasons than one.
Not only are GM food crops saturated with more pesticides than ever before, which
naturally ends up in your body when you eat them, but
glyphosate may also be killing the soil itself.
This startling conclusion comes straight from one of the USDA’s own
scientists,
Dr. Kremer. However, his employer has opted to more or less ignore
his findings,
which, according to this article in Grist, include evidence that glyphosate causes:
damage to beneficial microbes in the soil increasing the likelihood of infection of a crop by soil pathogens
More Evidence of Reproductive Problems from Eating GM Foods
But let’s get back to the infertility caused in animals.
The evidence of third-generation sterility in hamsters is just one link
in a chain
of studies that show evidence of this tragic side effect.
For example, back in 2005, Dr. Irina Ermakova, one of the senior
scientists with
the Russian National Academy of Sciences, reported that more
than 50 percent
of the babies from mother rats that were fed GM soy died within
three weeks,
compared to a 10 percent death rate among the controls.
Again, that’s a death rate five times higher than normal –
identical to the findings in the hamster study above.
Similarly, the rats were also growing more slowly, just like the
hamsters, and
their offspring also had lower birth weights. And again, when the
rats’ offspring
tried to reproduce, they too were found to be mostly sterile,
but it happened sooner, with infertility striking the second generation of
rats, as opposed to the 3rd generation
of hamsters. Ermakova wanted to perform further studies to analyze the organs
she’d collected from the study, but she never got the chance. Says Smith:
“She told me as we were sitting at the EU Parliament after giving a
presentation
there, that her boss had been pressured by his boss.
So, she was told to do no more GM food study on animals, her documents
were burned on her desk, samples were stolen from her laboratory, and
one of
her colleagues tried to comfort her by saying,
“Well maybe the GM soy will solve the overpopulation problem on earth.”
She wasn’t impressed.” (Neither am I) .
However, she inadvertently stumbled upon further proof that GM soy
wreaks
havoc with reproductive health. She discovered that the rat chow being
fed to
all rats in the facility had been switched, so that all of it contained
GM soy…
Two months later she asked her colleagues whether or not they’d
discovered any
surprising changes in the infant mortality of their various
studies, and yes indeed,
they had ! Inexplicably, infant mortality in the animal studies performed at the
National Academy of Scientific Laboratory in Moscow had skyrocketed to over
55 %, sometimes higher. There’s more evidence of reproductive health being
harmed in various
ways.
Smith explains: “[Ermakova] gave me a slide of a completely new study in which
she fed male rats genetically modified soy, and it’s absolutely stunning.
On the left side of the slide is a pink testicle. On the right side of
the slide,
is a blue testicle. She said that when the GM soy was fed to the male rats,
it changed the
color of their testicles from pink to blue, and you could see the
cells
on another slide, left to right, the structure of the cells in the
testicle was different;
a completely different blood flow. And this reminded me of what they had studied
in Italy, where they fed
mice genetically modified soy and
they also had changes in their testicles, including damage to the young sperm cells.
Now, if you’re damaging the young sperm cells, it could result in one of
two things.
They can result in infertility, or problems with the offspring.
Well, it appears that they may have had both.
In fact, with the mice, they looked at the offspring and they took the
embryos
out of the pregnant mothers and looked at how the DNA was functioning.
And they compared the DNA of those who were born to GM soy-fed parents
versus those who were fed non-GM soy and the DNA functioned differently.
So we’re seeing a fundamental change in the offspring of mice that were fed
genetically modified soy, whose parents were also fed genetically modified soy.”
Other feeding studies using GM corn have also produced similar results.
For example, mice fed GM corn had increasingly fewer and smaller babies
the
longer they stayed on the GM diet. There are also plenty of reports about pigs,
cows and other livestock
having reproductive problems when fed genetically
modified feed.
It’s Time to Save Yourself and Your Family Because White Knights
Don’t Exist in Government
It’s important to realize that the key to ending the ongoing atrocity of GM foods lies with you and me not with government.
Consumers are going to have to drive GM foods out, and we CAN do it.
Through educating yourself, your family, friends and community about
GMOs, and
most importantly of all, through the food purchases you make, you can
stop this
unregulated science experiment.
Once we reach the tipping point, which is probably as little as 5 % of the
US population, the market WILL respond. They can’t afford not to!
Once enough people refuse to buy GM food products, it won’t be long
before food
manufacturers start switching their ingredients.
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How to Sniff Out GMOs and Vote with Your Pocketbook
You CAN avoid GMOs, if you know what to look for.
First of all, remember there are 8 Genetically Modified food crops:
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