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Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)are the result of laboratory processes which artificially insert foreign genes into the DNA of food crops or animals. Those genes may come from bacteria, viruses, insects, animals or even humans. GMOs are not safe, but have been in the food supply since 1996. Most Americans say they would not eat GMOs if labeled, but the U.S. does not require labeling.
Genetically modified foods are linked to toxic and allergic reactions, sick, sterile, and dead livestock, and damage to virtually every organ studied in lab animals. (See summary in Genetic Roulette.) They are banned by food manufacturers in Europe and elsewhere, yet GMOs are present in the vast majority of processed foods in the US.
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Doctors Call for GMO Moratorium
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has called for a moratorium on GM foods, long-term independent studies, and labeling. They called on “Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM (genetically modified) foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks.”
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Consumers are already moving away from milk from cows injected with genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH or rbST). The next big consumer tidal wave will be the complete rejection of remaining GMOs in food products. The purchasing power of the tens of millions of health-conscious shoppers will inspire a new tipping point where GMOs can be pushed out of the entire food supply in the US.
Educate yourself and use the materials in the Campaign Kit to help educate and inspire others. Ask your natural foods retailer to place a Non-GMO Education Center in their store, or get one for your organization to use.
This bill would have restricted any national US dairy from properly labeling their milk products as free from genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH or rbST). Full Story.
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Sugar Beets – Don't let them mess with sugar! Help stop the introduction of sugar from GM sugar beets, grown in 2008 and now being processed and sold! Read the facts. View the list of companies who have pledged not to use GM Beet Sugar.
The World According to Monsanto,a film by Marie-Monique Robin, documents the devastating cost of Monsanto’s race over the last decade to genetically engineer and patent the world’s crops. Ms. Robin has traveled the globe in an effort to capture the human toll of Monsanto’s drive for GMO market domination. Her interviews with scientists, legislators, agricultural officials, farmers, shepherds, and families affected by GMOs, has made this picture critically-acclaimed in every country where it has opened. To purchase or to learn more about U.S. distribution click here.
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Read Jeffrey Smith's blog on Huffington Post Executive Director, Jeffrey Smith spells out his views and takes his turn debunking GMO myths in his regular blog in the Green and Politics Section.
Are Biotech Foods Safe? Real experts going head-to-head on issues you care about. Each side presents their arguments in their own words. Read Jeffrey Smith’s response.
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Fifteen groups in the top wheat-exporting countries of Canada, the U.S. and Australia released a joint statement of opposition to GMO wheat on Monday. It follows the May 14 call by GM wheat supporters in the three countries for synchronized production of GM wheat. Joint Statement
Roundup could cause birth defects The herbicide used on genetically modified soy – Argentina's main crop – could cause brain, intestinal and heart defects in fetuses, according to the results of a scientific investigation released Monday. Although the study "used amphibian embryos," the results "are completely comparable to what would happen in the development of a human embryo,” embryology professor Andres Carrasco, one of the study's authors, told Efe.
Different RoundUp Formulations Lead to Embryonic, Umbilical cord and Placental Cell Death and Are Poorly Assessed (France) For the first time, the toxicity mechanisms of four different Roundup formulations were studied in human cells. They act at doses where they are not herbicides anymore. The cells were neonatal cells freshly isolated from the umbilical cord, or less sensitive cell lines specially used to measure pollutant toxicity. The various components of these major herbicides were tested because they are among the most common in the world. Their residues are among the major pollutants, and moreover they are authorized as residues contaminating GM foods and feed at the tested levels. Full Story
Is Bt cotton: causing human allergies and reproductive problems and deaths of animals. (India) Investigators find human and animal health problems linked with Bt cotton in India. These include allergic reactions in cotton workers, reproductive problems in buffalo and herds of sheep and goats (reduced fertility, aborted foetuses, premature deliveries and calf deaths), toxic effects leading to sudden unexplained animal deaths, as well as reduced milk yields and fat content.
GM Corns Disturbs Immune System in Young and Old Mice (Italy) The Italian government’s National Institute of Research on Food and Nutrition has just published a report online in the Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry documenting significant disturbances in the immune system of young and old mice that have been fed the GM maize MON 810.
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