GMO Foods: Benefit or Harm?

[marykmusic]

There are countries that have refused to accept free food from the US because it was GMO crops.<br><br>Some companies are making sure that their products are labeled "Non-GMO" such as Silk soy milk.<br><br>We need to pay attention to this subject; it isn't only about farmers being forced to buy their seed, pesticides, and herbacides only from Monsanto, but also about our health.<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021006H.shtml" target="top">www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021006H.shtml</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

[darkbeforedawn]

Thanks for posting this MK. I have been doing reading on this very topic. The Book "Seeds of Deception" by Jerry Smith goes into great detail about this threat to our health. Most European countries are on to this--they call GM Frankenfoods over there, because this company Monsanto has no idea what monsters they are unleashing on the public and have said as much: They don't feel it should be their responsibility to test the products. We should be the guinie pigs. Some scientists are beginning to feel that the sharp increases in food allergies and indigestion may be in part attributed to GM. They also say that the actual artificialy inserted DNA can get loose in our intestines and attach to the genes of the beneficial flora wrecking havoc with our guts. I have yet to see much on the real benefits of this stuff, except of course to the company which hopes to really rake it in after they let loose the terminator genetic modified seeds so that the farmers always have to come to them for seed crops. <p></p><i></i>

[chiggerbit]

I have gluten intolerance, cannot tolerate wheat products, as well as many other gluten foods. So I am very concerned about genetic modification of foods. For me, the addition of a gluten gene to rice, for instance, would probably be a very big problem. And, as a gardener, I am aware of the "promiscuity" of many pollens. How do you put that pollen genie back in the bottle if it is malicious? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 2/10/06 10:27 pm<br></i>

[darkbeforedawn]

Something like that has already happened to me...I have been intolerant of the tomato family (nightshades) for quite sometime. Meanwhile, a few years ago I took up drinking soy milk. Well soy has had a nightshade gene from the tobacco plant added so that it is pest resistant. I got sick from the soy milk and my digestion still has not recovered. That was three years ago. I am down to about five foods that I can digest. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START >: --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/mad.gif ALT=">:"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> Since that time, I have met many people- particularly menopausal women -who took up soy milk because they were told it was a "natural" estrogen and found too late it wrecked their digestion and/or developed food intolerances they did not have previously. I wish I could sue the ____. <p></p><i></i>

[chiggerbit]

Yikes, does that include potatos, also a nightshade, as well as peppers? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 2/10/06 10:36 pm<br></i>

[marykmusic]

Here's an interesting view of genetically-engineered food, that many of you are probably consuming without knowing it: <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.krafty.org/flash/" target="top">Krafted</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>What options do we have? This tells us: <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html" target="top">Store Wars</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

[invisibletopography]

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[Col Quisp]

I just watched a documentary, The Future of Food, about this very subject. I recommend it highly. I learned that corn is considered a pesticide now, because it has been modified to kill any insect that eats it. <br><br>Also, I read today that European countries may be forced to accept GM food. It was on the google news page today, but I don't have the link now.<br><br>On another food-related subject, someone at work was excited that she bought Orville Redenbacher kettle corn "with Splenda!" I cringed but said nothing. I've already sent her information and websites about the dangers of Splenda in particular, and all of these poisons in general. Yet I see people at work every day mixing up Crystal Lite and downing 5-6 diet sodas per day. They just look at me as if I were a crackpot when I tell them I don't touch that stuff.<br><br>My point is we have to be more vigilant as this crap gets into more and more foods. <br><br>I was at a meeting of journalists who write for a local independent paper last night and every one of them had trouble remembering names of people they wanted to feature in an article. Even the leader of the brainstorming session. I wondered how many of them drink diet sodas. <br><br>One day, I took a container of yogurt offered by a co-worker, and after I ate it, I realized it had 'sucralose," another name for Splenda. I freaked out. I could really tell that something was wrong with me that whole weekend. I felt anxious, shaky, and spacy. (More so than usual! ha)<br><br>It seems the more I preach against this crap, the more entrenched people's desire for artificial sweeteners becomes. I can't believe anyone would willingly swallow formic acid. I beg my mom not to use it, but she insists, since she's diabetic. Hell, this is what is CAUSING diabetes and obesity.<br><br>Oh, how it makes my blood boil knowing that this is a deliberate scheme to depopulate by slow death, with the side benefit of lining the pockets of doctors and hospitals as they treat the profound illnesses caused by Monsanto. And in the meantime, everyone grows more dumbed-down and docile.<br><br>sorry for the rant! I'm cranky today.<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[darkbeforedawn]

That was great col. crisp. Wish more of us would start ranting, because there really is "food wars" in place. The same companies putting the chemicals in our foods then profit when we become sick and have to take their drugs which also have many of the same chemicals. Donald Rumsfeld, deeply caring humanitarian and philanthropist (not) is personally responsible for ramming aspartame through the FDA into our food supply. <br> I went to a poetry slam last week. The poets were great and many were young, but almost all were obese. This is so sad to me because I know the food is making them fat. First they get fat and then they get sick. And they are blamed for not being able to control their "appetites" Their appetites no longer function the way nature intended because the chemicals destroy and cross the signals. They then spend their money on worthless diets fads and books trying to lose the weight. So much needless suffering to buy these bastards their mercedes benzes. Knowledge is power. We should all keep on trying to spread it. <p></p><i></i>

[StarmanSkye]

Five foods 'safe':<br><br>Bloody-Hell; That's just awful. Yet another horrific implication of the corporate scam being perpetrated on 'just us' folks, besides the insidious undermining of third-world economies and their food self-sufficiency -- ie., the public's apparant lack of rights to a safe food supply and inability to hold the agribusiness combines accountable for consequences. Isn't there ANY way to bring a massive class-action suit against the major GMO producers like Monsanto for not doing the most basic health tests or for failing to adequately identify and alert the public and properly label their genetically modified foodstuffs as potentially hazardous? Seems an aggressive money-hungry Law Firm would be keen to explore this opportunity -- but then the GOP's drive to eliminate 'frivolous lawsuits' plays right to protecting their core constituency -- while so-called International 'Free Trade' rules with prohibitive no-appeal 'fines' also institutionalizes corporate profitmaking immune to oversight, regulation and redress. What a corrupt rigged-game outrage!<br><br>Also: I didn't know there's concern re: DNA fragments loosely-bound in GMO foods can reattach to one's gut -- JaYsUS! Lord, preserve us from companies that want to 'help' people (uyh, given the Lord's reluctance to intercede in mortal affairs rather we need to act to kick sum butt, organize and use our mass-influence and economic clout to preserve ourselves!)<br><br>The Roman Empire had NOTHING on the modern version of neocolonial corporate/security state globalist Mafia huckster Overlords.<br><br>Starman<br>-- Thanks for the infolinks Mary K. <p></p><i></i>

[chiggerbit]

What, "properly label their genetically modified foodstuffs"? Haahaaheehee. That is the LAST thing they want to be forced to do. <p></p><i></i>

[marykmusic]

Read labels. And distrust anything that is listed as "and other natural ingredients." Remember, radon is a "natural" radio-active substance. Fouride can be considered "natural." It's in bottled water such as Dasanti. What can be listed as such is FAR from being safe!<br><br>And yes, ANY form of fake sugar is poison. But then, so is "high-fructose corn syrup." And guess what, that's made from GMO corn!<br><br>But a real problem, and hard to avoid, is Monosodium Glutamate. It's in almost everything that those obese poets are eating. And our schoolkids' favorite snacks, such as Flamin' Hot Cheetos. Betcha can't eat just one! <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>'Cause MSG is addictive.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Salad dressing has LOTS of it AND that corn syrup in many cases.<br><br>I've planted my garden, the frost-hardy stuff such as lettuce and peas and broccoli... tomatoes are started in the house. I only have about a 5' by 8' area but I can get a lot of companion plants growing there. --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

[Cosmic Cowbell]

A report from 2004 by the Union of Concerned Scientist entitled "Gone to Seed" can be found here:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_environment/genetic_engineering/gone-to-seed.html">www.ucsusa.org/food_and_e...-seed.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>On another note...<br><br>"Next spoke Constance Clear, a 30-year San Antonio psychotherapist and author of Reaching for Reality: Seven Incredible True Stories of Alien Abduction. She has a long list of professional credentials. However, from 1982 to 1997 she facilitated a support group for bereaved parents, which she feels is her best preparation for the work with abductees she is doing now. She titled her talk, "Ambassadors or Lab Rats". She received one of the 90,000 copies of the Roper report, "Unusual Personal Experiences", mailed by the Bigalow Foundation. This led to her attendance at the Mack, Hopkins, Jacobs conference in San Antonio, which got her on the PEER referral list. Clients drove hundreds of miles to visit her, and her first experiencer support group of seven has met for four years. She has nine in her new group. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>She finds it interesting that all nine and half of the first group seem compelled to save seeds."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>The above was taken from the "Report on the 9th Annual International UFO Congress Convention"<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~donware/Report9th">home.earthlink.net/~donware/Report9th</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Sadly, Constance was killed as a result of injuries sustained in a motorcyle accident several years ago. If you get a opportunity to read Clear's "Reaching for Reality", I urge you to take it.<br><br>~Cowbell <p></p><i></i>

[Col Quisp]

Seed saving is a good idea. Did you know there used to be thousands of varieties of potatoes? But because humans focused on only a few varieties, when the potato blight hit, massive starvation followed. Yet, in South America where they still had more than a few kinds of potatoes, the people were not affected. This was in the documentary <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>The Future of Food.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[darkbeforedawn]

NM Senators Ask <br>Gov To Declare <br>Aspartame Emergency<br><br>By Stephen Fox<br>2-12-6<br> <br>New Mexico Governor William Blaine Richardson III has been requested by 10 New Mexico State Senators in a letter to declare a state of public health emergency, in accordance with NMSA 12-10A-5. <br> <br>To wit: <br> <br>"The nature of the emergency derives from 70% of the adults and 40% of the children in New Mexico having consumed methanol and formaldehyde, the resultant metabolites from their ingestion of aspartame. The conditions that cause the emergency are the fact that the G.D. Searle Corporation ramrodded the approval of this illegal drug through the United States Food and Drug Administration in 1981 asa 'food additive.' It is now found in over 6,000 food products and over 600 children's medications,vitamins, and aspirin." <br> <br>"The expected duration of the emergency is more than thirty days necessary to prevent further instances of methanol/formaldehyde poisoning, and will end when all products containing aspartame, a poisonous and deleterious food additive are removed from sale in New Mexico in accordance with statutes in the New Mexico Food act." <br> <br>Richardson has been requested by the 10 Senators to recognize aspartame disease as a public health emergency on February 13, 2006. <br> <br>The Senators include Judiciary Chairman, Cisco Mc Sorley; Indian Affairs Chairman, John Pinto, Navajo; Rules Chair, Linda Lopez; Conservation Chairman, Carlos Cisneros, Finance Committee Vice Chair, John Arthur Smith; Corporations Committee, Bernadette Sanchez; Indian Affairs Vice Chairman, Lidio Rainaldi; Rules Vice Chair, John Grubesic; Gerald Ortiz y Pino,and Leonard Tsosie, Navajo. <br> <br>Most of the New Mexico Legislators have been given copies of Cori Brackett's DVD, Sweet Misery, to educate them during the Interim before next Session for the New Mexico Legislature. <br> <br>_____ <br> <br>To be apprised of Governor Richardson's response, call Deputy Secretary of Communications Phal Shipley (505)827-3000. <br> <br>Also see the New York Times Aspartame/Methanol/Formaldehyde in 6000 manufactured food products: article Feb.12,2006 by Melanie Warner. <br> <br>For more information on the neurodegenerative effects of Aspartame from Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, contact him in Ridgeland, Mississippi, through Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum. (770) 242-2599. <br> <br>For medical effects, particularly the effects of aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde on diabetics, please contact Internist H.J. Roberts, author of Aspartame Disease: An FDA Approved Epidemic, through Dr. Martini (770) 242-2599 hjrobertsmd@aol.com <br> <br>For information on discussions between state's Attorneys General regarding Aspartame suits similar to the Tobacco Suits of the 1990's, please contact Eliot Spitzer of New York; Mike Hatch of Minnesota; former Attorney General of Mississippi, Mike Moore; former Attorney General of Washington, now Governor Christine O. Gregoire; Attorney General Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma; Attorney General of California, William Lockyer; Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan; Deputy Attorney General of California, Ed Weil; Deputy Attorney General of New Mexico, Stuart Bluestone, and the next Attorney General of New Mexico, Dr. Gary King, Ph.D. Chemistry. <br> <br>New Mexico Secretary of Health is Michelle Lujan Grisham and Secretary of Public Safety is John Denko. <br> <br>For more articles on Aspartame, please see website for World Natural Health Organization: www.wnho.net <br> <br>Stephen Fox, Founder, New Mexico Nutrition Council International Board of Honorary Advisors of World Natural Health Organization stephen@santafefineart.com (505) 983-2002<br> <br><br> <br><br>Disclaimer<br><br>Email This Article <br> <p></p><i></i>