Obesity used to just be a problem of the West, but our insidious Coca-cola culture has spread worldwide along with our junk food habit, so obesity is practically taking over the globe. One of the culprits? Genetically modified ingredients.
Obesity rates do not reflect the often-spread rumor of biotech – that GMOs will feed the world. There is evidence that they do not increase crop yields or make foods more nutritious – in fact the very way in which industrial agriculture conducts its business robs the soil of important nutrients which are then void in our food. What GMOs DO feed are the junk food corporations’ pockets. And believe me, these companies have a voracious appetite.
A study published in the Lancet just last month reveals that the world has witnessed an ‘unacceptably slow’ rate of progress toward overcoming the obesity problem. Over the last decade, the world has gotten fatter, not fitter, and fed with less nutritionally-dense foods.
Why? GMOs account for high fructose corn syrup, and corn solids, sugar from GM sugar beets, as well as ingredients like GM soy used in highly-processed, nutritionally lacking foods that certainly add to the obesity rates.
When they aren’t using GM corn ethanol (which is highly subsidized using our own tax dollars) to make petro-supporting fuels, those ears of corn are making people fat. And this weight gain is followed by cancer, diabetes, reproductive ailments, and kidney diseases. Oh, and don’t forget unhealthy gut flora which adds to decreased immunity and yes, more obesity since your body can’t process the food you eat.
A world of obese children while others starve – that’s an odd picture to fit your head around, isn’t it?
Even the World Health Organization, supporter of Big Ag and Big Medicine, admits that the obesity rates among children is alarming:
“. . .the number of overweight children under the age of five, is estimated to be over 42 million. Close to 31 million of these are living in developing countries.”
What is seriously troubling is that junk food companies target children, creating a GM-generation that is eating Bt corn and high fructose corn syrup by the bucket load. No wonder ‘fat’ children are seen as “an investment in future sales,” according to Tim Lobstein of the World Obesity Federation, a co-researcher on the Lancet series.
Kids are now becoming brand loyal to GM supporters and junk food makers from General Mills, to Pepsi-Co, Coca-Cola to Kraft – unless of course, their parents teach them to refuse the junk food poison being peddled by a few oligarchs.
A Multiple-Country Study Shows GM Crops Contribute to Fat in Surprising Ways
Scientists in Norway, Hungary, Austria, Ireland, Turkey, and Australia have found that GMOs may promote weight gain in other less obvious ways. In their decade-long research, animals fed a diet of GM corn put on weight, were less able to digest proteins, and suffered immune system problems.
In exploring the effects of GM food, studying the impact on rats, mice, pig and salmon, they remarked:
“We are trying to identify which indicators we need to measure in order to explore unintentional effects from GM food,” explains lead researcher Professor Åshild Krogdahl of the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science.
“The findings could give us some understanding of the potential effects for these animal species as well as for humans.”
In the study, led by Professor Krogdahl, rats were fed corn which had been genetically modified to withstand pesticide and herbicide spraying in the hope of being resistant to pests. For 90 days, these rats were fed GM feed, and the control group was not – you can guess which group of rats were fatter at the end of the 90 days – the GM rats, of course. The very same result transpired when the rats were fed fish that had been fed GM corn.
Krogdahl asks:
“If the same effect applies to humans, how would it impact on people eating this type of corn over a number of years, or even eating meat from animals feeding on this corn? It is an interesting phenomenon and worth exploring further.”
More Freakish Results
When the researchers further examined the result of feeding salmon a GM diet, they noticed some frightening changes. Though some of the changes were deemed ‘normal’ there remained a trend among the GM-fed fish.
According to Krogdahl, the GM-fed salmon were:
“. . . slightly larger, they ate slightly more, their intestines had a different microstructure, they were less able to digest proteins, and there were some changes to their immune system. Blood samples also showed some change in the blood.”
The inability to digest proteins efficiently is also linked to obesity. Our bodies need to be able to do this to access amino acids for utilization throughout the body’s systems. This means that contrary to the lies that biotech has told us, GM products affect us in numerous ways beyond obesity – including causing diabetes, digestive disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, colitis, autism spectrum disorders (ASD) (ADD), autoimmune diseases, sexual dysfunction, sterility, asthma, COPD, and more.
GM Organ Damage
The researchers also noticed subtle changes in almost all of the internal organs, including the digestive organs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, adrenal glands and reproductive organs.
Krogdahl points out that there’s nothing inherently unusual about physiological changes after food consumption, as this happens with non-GM food as well, but that the changes they observed could cause problems over the long-term in human subjects.
By examining salmon intestines after GM food consumption, the researchers also looked at the intestines of rats eating the salmon. The rats ate slightly more and grew faster than their GM-free counterparts. These rats also had poorer immune systems.
GMO Lie: GM Food Doesn’t Survive the Digestive System
The study also exposes another biotech lie. Krogdahl explained:
“A frequent claim has been that new genes introduced in GM food are harmless since all genes are broken up in the intestines. But our findings show that genes can be transferred through the intestinal wall into the blood; they have been found in blood, muscle tissue and liver in sufficiently large segments to be identified. . .The biological impact of this gene transfer is unknown.”
The more consumers become aware of the results of studies like these, the less likely they are to be happy with eating biotech-altered food. What’s more, is that the platform upon which many GM foods were created and sold to the public – that of being vital to the growing population’s food supply – is proven, beyond a doubt, to be backwards.
Most GM crops are simply used in junk foods, and if the other toxic ingredients in them aren’t already unpalatable enough for you – just know that GMOs could be making you sick and fat. There’s better food out there, we just have to demand it.
This was a good read.
Very solid and revealing truth about GMOs. It’s amazing how gullible the people are and especially GMO supporters who have been duped by big business. This list of noxious and abusive GMO foods needs to be part of everybody’s avoided commodities.
Thanks for keeping us up to date on how the American consumer is being lied to and deceived by big business and by a government who isn’t sensitive to and protective enough of their charges and true responsibilities.
GMO’s feeding the troll of the world.
Last week GMO Bob and I were having a one way conversation about the lab rats. All he could say was the Sprague Dawley rats sucked. I asked him what should the use since that rat seems to be the norm for Monsatan and there ilk. I seen some labs use Mongolian Gerbils, and he had some perverse idea about them. So I looked into it a little bit like what did these rats eat before going to the lab. Make sense?
1. What are standard diets?
A more complete name would be Standard Natural-Ingredient Diets. These diets are manufactured in large quantities (at least 2 tons) and stocked at one or more Harlan Teklad distribution centers. Standard natural ingredient diets are readily available and can generally be delivered within a few days after an order is placed. These diets primarily contain grains (corn, wheat), legumes (soybean meal) and to a lesser extent ingredients such as fish meal, and meat and bone meal. Standard natural ingredient diets includeGlobal and Traditional diets and are available Irradiated and/or Certified.
so the obvious question that comes to mind with “Certified” USDA certified??
5. What are certified diets?
Certified diets are diets that have been tested for a standard panel of environmental contaminants that are known to be capable of interfering with a study. These diets help ensure that a study complies with the FDA’s Good Laboratory Practices regulations requiring periodic feed analysis. A Harlan Laboratories certificate of analysis signed by a nutritionist is made available to the customer. For more information see Certified Diets.
Well this tells a little.
Contaminant Maximum Acceptable Limit Unit
Arsenic 1.00 ppm
Cadmium 0.50 ppm
Lead 1.50 ppm
Mercury 0.20 ppm
Selenium 0.50 ppm
Aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, G2 5.00 ppb
Aldrin 0.03 ppm
Lindane 0.05 ppm
Chlordane 0.05 ppm
DDT & related substances 0.15 ppm
Dieldrin 0.03 ppm
Endrin 0.03 ppm
Heptachlor 0.03 ppm
Heptachlor Epoxide 0.03 ppm
Toxaphene 0.15 ppm
PCB’s 0.15 ppm
a-BHC 0.05 ppm
b-BHC 0.05 ppm
d-BHC 0.05 ppm
Hexachlorobenzene 0.03 ppm
Mirex 0.02 ppm
Methoxychlor 0.50 ppm
Thimet 0.50 ppm
Diazinon 0.50 ppm
Disulfaton 0.50 ppm
Methyl Parathion 0.50 ppm
Does anyone else notice what I don’t see??
Malathion 0.50 ppm
Parathion 0.50 ppm
Thiodan 0.50 ppm
Ethion 0.50 ppm
Trithion 0.50 ppm
I see some pesticides, but I guess there is some truth to “The Government doesn’t test for glyphosate”.
What’s your point Abe?
HOW DO YOU RIG AN ANIMAL FEEDING STUDY?
Well lets say your going to do a feeding study with these rats on GMO’s.
Well these animals at the lab rat creation factory have been eating foods with glyphosate and BT toxins till they get thrown into a box and sent to do a study.
As you can see by this list to be certified,,, I see they don’t test for Glyphosate, BT Toxins, 2,4-D, etc……
So after your study you conclude there’s know difference because the study group and the control group both have say tumors.
In laymens terms the control is already contaminated with the chemicals, and toxins your going to study. Diabolical? Yes Sneaky? Youbetcha. Brilliant? I’d shoot’em dead at the door of my casino!
Oh I see what you were getting at. Not sure if I fully agree but you don’t have to try to convince me that many anti-GMO studies are flawed.
What does obesity have to do with GMOs???
By Washington’s Blog
Global Research, March 20, 2012
Washington’s Blog 20 March 2012
Scientists tested GM corn at Monsanto laboratories, and found that the GMs increase body weight in rats. Specifically, a paper published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences reported in 2009:
We present for the first time a comparative analysis of blood and organ system data from trials with rats fed three main commercialized genetically modified (GM) maize (NK 603, MON 810, MON 863), which are present in food and feed in the world. The three animal feeding studies were conducted in two different laboratories and at two different dates; at Monsanto (Missouri, USA) for NK 603 and MON 810 (June 7, 2000) and at Covance Laboratories Inc.
(Virginia, USA) for MON 863 (March 14, 2001) on behalf of Monsanto.
Crude and relative liver weights are also affected at the end of the maximal (33%) GM maize feeding level as well as that of the heart which for corresponding parameters to a comparable extent, showed up to an 11% weight increase.
Additional statistically significant differences include … higher … overall body (3.7%) weight Several parameters indicate increases in circulating glucose and triglyceride levels, with liver function parameters disrupted together with a slight increase in total body weight. This physiological state is indicative of a pre-diabetic profile.
Our data strongly suggests that these GM maize varieties induce a state of hepatorenal [i.e. kidney and liver] toxicity.
This can be due to the new pesticides (herbicide or insecticide) present specifically in each type of GM maize, although unintended metabolic effects due to the mutagenic properties of the GM transformation process cannot be excluded [Remember that some GM crops are engineered to have the plants produce their own pesticides, some pesticides can cause obesity, and the pesticides are not magically destroyed before making it into our bloodstream].
All three GM maize varieties contain a distinctly different pesticide residue associated with their particular GM event (glyphosate and AMPA in NK 603, modified Cry1Ab in MON 810, modified Cry3Bb1 in MON 863).
These substances have never before been an integral part of the human or animal diet and therefore their health consequences for those who consume them, especially over long time periods are currently unknown.
What GMOs DO feed are the junk food corporations’ pockets.
I don’t see how this statement is remotely accurate. GMOs profit the companies that produce them and the farmers that use them. But I’m open minded, perhaps there is some evidence to support this claim?
Why? GMOs account for high fructose corn syrup, and corn solids, sugar from GM sugar beets, as well as ingredients like GM soy used in highly-processed, nutritionally lacking foods that certainly add to the obesity rates.
Whether these ingredients are derived from GM crops is wholly irrelevant.
more obesity since your body can’t process the food you eat.
Let me get this straight. Not being able to “process” (whatever that means) food results in increased obesity? How can your body become fat off of food it can’t process? Am I the only one that finds this hilariously wrong?
What is seriously troubling is that junk food companies target children, creating a GM-generation that is eating Bt corn and high fructose corn syrup by the bucket load.
Again, what does GM corn have to do with this? I highly doubt that any Cry proteins remain intact or even present in processed HFCS. I’m not saying HFCS is good for you, quite the opposite. But Christina Sarich’s incessant need to tying this issue to GMOs is delusional and ignorant at best or outright intentionally misleading at worst.
Scientists in Norway, Hungary, Austria, Ireland, Turkey, and Australia have found that GMOs may promote weight gain in other less obvious ways.
I can’t find the scientific paper presenting these results. As usual, Sarich just links to another anti-GMO blog, not an actual peer-reviewed study. If anyone can link the study, I am very curious to read it. I haven’t heard this claim before and would like to follow up on it.
The very same result transpired when the rats were fed fish that had been fed GM corn.
Hmm. That sounds fishy. I’m not buying it.
GM products affect us in numerous ways beyond obesity – including causing diabetes, digestive disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, colitis, autism spectrum disorders (ASD) (ADD), autoimmune diseases, sexual dysfunction, sterility, asthma, COPD, and more.
Rubbish. In science there is a saying that a theory that explains everything explains nothing. Claiming GM products are the behind everything from autism to asthma and sexual dysfunction is exactly the same thing. There is no plausible hypothesis as to how GMOs (which don’t have any common physical characteristic) could possibly have such broad impacts. This is blatant fear-monger.
“perhaps there is some evidence to support this claim”
There is – so why not go out and do some research instead of getting someone else to do it for you. You are dangerously close to be branded a troll.
John, I do quite a bit of research. I read a lot of peer-reviewed papers, and I actually conduct laboratory research in this field. Call me whatever you want. I only care about empirical evidence.
How about if I call you GMO Robert2
Once again you attack someone that simply doesn’t agree with you, thanks for knocking your own credibility again johnny.
OMG I broke out laughing so hard after reading your post I scared the cattle. Isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black.
GMO Roberts- the most consistant troll and attack artist this board has ever seen. LOL.
Buddy you need to read your post while staring at the mirror.
And by the way Mr.GMO “mind your own business” Roberts where did I disagree with him?
Now you are trying to dictate who can post? You seem to think the whole world should bend to your perverted will. If you don’t want me to reply to you then don’t post. If you do quit posting use the time to educate yourself for a change.
“Now you are trying to dictate who can post?”- prove it
Your comments say anything that needs to be said. Each person may make up their own mind — Oh I’m sorry people thinking for themselves doesn’t sit well with someone like you does it?
The only reason you incessantly drone on about how wonderful GMO products is because you’re a paid troll for Monsonto. It’s obvious to everyone here. You add nothing to the discussion here. You refuse to acknowledge any of the mounting scientific evidence that is available on hundreds of web sites and scientific magazines. Instead you believe religiously, every single spoon fed, secret Monsanto story. You can’t think for yourself so you blindly obey the Monsanto creed totally oblivious to any serious consequences to humans and the environment. Nobody here wants anythng to do with you.
They are all tired of your deceitful garbage you spew.
Again speaking for others? You already proved that get that wrong with the water issue. Also you don’t listen as I have stated I don’t work for Monsanto, I’m an ag retailer. I don’t even buy anything from Monsanto and haven’t for years. I do buy a huge amount from Dow and those are the traits we support as well. If your simple information is this wrong you expect me to believe your scientific results? Please try to be serious.
Everyone knows you are a monsanto informant.
They’re not my scientific results. You need to do some more reading
Skipped right over your democracy statement didn’t you Johnny. Why don’t you just admit that you were wrong? It isn’t that hard it will even be good for you.
“Now you are trying to dictate who can post?”- prove it
Your comments say anything that needs to be said. Each person may make up their own mind — Oh I’m sorry people thinking for themselves doesn’t sit well with someone like you does it?
Call me whatever you like, but that doesn’t address anything I’ve said. Look up “ad hominem fallacy”.
This is something that might interest you.:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm…
By the way can you supply the readers here with some links to your research in this field?
Authors: Marina Santadino, Carlos Coviella, Fernando Momo
Pesticides’ sublethal effects are not regularly taken into account when assessing agrochemical’s toxicity. With the objective of detecting chronic,
sublethal effects of the widely used herbicide glyphosate, an experiment
was performed using the earthworm Eisenia fetida as model organism. Earthworm adults were randomly assigned to three glyphosate treatments: control (no glyphosate), regular dose for perennial weeds, and double dose. Six E. fetida individuals were placed in each pot. Two random pots were taken weekly from each treatment and the number of adults, individual weight, number of cocoons, and presence and number of young earthworms were recorded. A matrix analysis was performed with the data. The matrix population model built showed that while the control population had a positive growth rate, both glyphosate treatments showed negative growth rates. The results suggest that under these sublethal effects, non-target populations are at risk of local extinction, underscoring the importance of this type of studies in
agrochemical environmental risk assessment.
John, I am very much open to the idea that pesticides are unhealthy. It’s not something I am disputing. My mistake if I gave the impression that I was.
By the way can you supply the readers here with some links to your research in this field?
Nope. I’d prefer to stay anonymous right now thanks. I understand you might not believe me, but I’d rather take that risk than have nuts start harassing me personally. (Not saying you’re a nut at all).
Why? What are you afraid of. Do you work for Monsanto. If you are an independent researcher with no ties to Monsanto or the other GMO producers what are you worried about.
You said
“John, I do quite a bit of research. I read a lot of peer-reviewed
papers, and I actually conduct laboratory research in this field.”
Unfortunately if you can’t produce evidence that you are then this statement is no longer valid. Sorry,
I wish to remain anonymous. Anti-GMO activists (I’m not saying you) can be ruthless and some outright delusional. I don’t want to risk subjecting my family to crazy people.
Remain anonymous if you wish just don’t try to come off as knowledable about things if you can’t back it up.
John, I am very open about what I know and don’t know. If you think I’ve said something wrong, point it out.
http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416
“In science there is a saying that a theory that explains everything explains nothing.”
There is another saying:
If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem.
And what exactly is the problem? Obesity? I’m actually at the gym right now.
you
By Gina-Marie Cheeseman
on October 30, 2013
Several studies in the last year have linked obesity to the consumption of GMO food, including a 2012 European study on the impact of GMO food on rats, mice, pigs and salmon. Researchers from Hungary, Austria, Ireland, Turkey, Australia and Norway participated in the study. The animals were fed GMO corn and soy over 90 days. What the researchers found is that the rats fed GMO food grew slightly fatter faster than the control group fed non-GMO food. Fish fed GMO food experienced the same effect. The researchers also found changes in the organs of the fish fed GMOs.
Researchers were able to disprove the claim that new genes introduced in
GMO food are harmless. Professor Åshild Krogdahl of the Norwegian
School of Veterinary Science said the study showed “that genes can be
transferred through the intestinal wall into the blood; they have been
found in blood, muscle tissue and liver in sufficiently large segments
to be identified.” He added that the “biological impact of this gene
transfer is unknown.”
A peer reviewed paper by American researchers released this last spring looked at the
toxicity of residue of the herbicide glyphosate on food. As the paper notes, glyphosate, which GMO food is engineered to tolerate, is “found in the main foods of the Western diet, comprised primarily of sugar, corn, soy and wheat.”
That means GMOs are present in most processed food. What the researchers found is that glyphosate “enhances the damaging effects of other food borne chemical residues and environmental toxins.” They linked a number of diseases common in Western countries
with glyphosate residue on food, including obesity, diabetes, and heart
disease.
I’m interested in the peer-reviewed research behind blog posts like this, not the blog posts themselves. I won’t even read blogs. They’re a waste of my time.
What are you doing here then?
Good question. I enjoy talking to people who share different opinions. I try to expose myself to other ways of thinking to avoid becoming too limited in my perspective.
Authors: Hanaa A. S. Oraby, Mahrousa M. H. Kandil, Amal A. M. Hassan, Hayam A. Al-Sharawi
Genetically modified (GM) food crops are considered to have the
potential of providing food security especially in developing countries.
Scientists have raised concern over the hazards associated with the
consumption of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). One of these
hazards, which have great controversy reports, is the possible
horizontal gene transfer from GM-food or feed to human or animal
tissues. Many researches were conducted to investigate the presence of
some transgenic sequences in animal tissues fed on GM- crops. Many of
the inserted genes in the GM-crops are under the control of the promoter
of the Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMVP35S) and produce insecticidal
proteins. Health hazards are suggested to accompany the ingestion of
this promoter. CaMVP35S can function in a wide range of organisms
(plants and animals). It has also been demonstrated that the CaMV-P35S
promoter sequence can convert an adjacent tissue- and organ-specific
gene promoter into a globally active promoter. The present work was
conducted to evaluate the possibility of horizontal gene transfer from a
diet containing DNA segments from Cauliflower mosaic virus -35S
promoter (CaMVP-35S) to the cells of different organs of rats fed for
three months on diets containing genetically modified components.
Analysis of the results revealed that: 1) ingested fragments from the
CaMV-35S promoter incorporated into blood, liver, and brain tissues of
experimental rats, 2) The total mean of transfer of GM target sequences
increased significantly by increasing the feeding durations, and 3) The
affinity of different transgenic fragments from the ingested GM-diet, to
be incorporated into the different tissues of rats varied from one
target sequence to the other.
Horizontal gene transfer is a theoretical risk, but not one that concerns me to any significant degree. After all, humans have been eating plants ever since humans evolved. We ingest DNA from plants and animals every day without any noticeable negative consequences. There is a dramatic difference between ingesting foreign DNA and that DNA becoming incorporated into the genomic DNA of our cells. This paper does not demonstrate that the latter is happening. Show me evidence that this presents an actual risk, not just that we simply absorb the DNA of things we eat. To that I say, who cares? We’ve been absorbing the DNA of things we eat for our entire history.
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/health-risks
Look just like GMO Roberts you are willing to take a risk on the many proven potential dangers of GMOs and are instead taking the risk on the unproven “safe” partial research done on GMOs. There have been no long term generational studies on GMOs and you are unable to prove that GMOs are safe. The majority of unbiased, neutral scientists in the world would never go out and a limb and suggest GMOs are safe.
“We ingest DNA from plants and animals every day without any noticeable negative consequences.”
You are talking apples and autos here.
” After all, humans have been eating plants ever since humans evolved.”
Again you are generalizing and simplifying ( which every narrow minded GMO Monsanto human plant has done here).
Never in nature has anything remotely similar to these GMOs ever survived in the wild.
What “proven potential dangers”? That’s exactly what I’m talking about with regards to horizontal gene transfer. There is no evidence to support the claim that GMOs pose an inherent risk. Yes, it’s something we should be mindful of, but there’s not reason to think GMOs are inherently more dangerous than similar non-GM plants.
There have been no long term generational studies on GMOs
Have you tried looking?
Assessment of the health impact of GM plant diets in long-term and multigenerational animal feeding trials: A literature review
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691511006399
You are talking apples and autos here.
How so? Explain to me how DNA from a GM plant is dramatically different than DNA from a non-GM plant.
Never in nature has anything remotely similar to these GMOs ever survived in the wild.
There aren’t any wild Granny Smith apples either. No wild bananas. No “natural” wheat anywhere similar to what we grow. This concept of “natural is better” is built upon a lack of awareness of context.
Do you even know what long term means?
Over eighty five percent of the worlds scientists say they are safe. You lose again. By the way what government do we have again johnny?
Over ninety percent of the worlds scientists say they are unsafe. Better check your sources. Lost again are you fascist.
Prove it. List them. Without it you are just lying. Of course what would you expect from anyone that doesn’t even know what type of government rules them.
Prove it Sammy
It is in many articles go ahead and read them. By the way if you are reading try to figure out what kind of government we have here.
Tell us all about it Sammy – if you really can. I know you haven’t read any of these articles yourself. That’s why all you do here all day long is harass posters. You haven’t posted anything informative yet. That’s because you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Informative? that is your opinion, but it is a fact that you don’t even know what type of government we have.
Conclusion
Ginsberg believes government officials should be taken out of
Washington and rotated through field offices. “Every study shows that
public officials working in the field offices develop more sympathy for
the American people,” he says.
Americans’ civic education could stand some change, too, he says:
“There should be less about George Washington and the cherry tree—more
about how to be a little cynical and understand politics as it’s seen in
Washington.” He adds, “Officials’ lack of concern or even knowledge of
the views of the general public does not leave us with much confidence
that the interests of ordinary citizens will carry much weight in the
process of administrative rule making.”
Hard to have sympathy for people not smart enough to know what kind of government we have.
http://www.organic-systems.org/journal/92/abstracts/Swanson-et-al.html
You have it right! All of these bad things like high fructose corn syrup and processed foods would still exist if gmos didn’t and would be just as bad for you. Gmos have nothing to do with it. It is lack of exercise and bad diets.
How you can avoid eating GMOs
There are several ways that you can avoid eating GMOs. One
of the main ways is by significantly reducing the amount of processed
foods in your diet. When you do want to reach for a salty or sweet
treat, make sure that it is either certified organic or certified
non-GMO by the Non-GMO Project. You can also obtain a copy of “Unjunk Your Junk Food: Healthy Alternatives to Conventional Snacks”
by the creators of Naturally Savvy and use it as a guide to eating better junk food.
The safety of GMO foods is unproven
and a growing body of research connects these foods with health
concerns and environmental damage. For this reason, most developed
nations have policies requiring mandatory labeling of GMO foods at the very least, and some have issued bans on GMO food production and imports.
GMOs are not the answer for global food security.
Genetically engineered crops have shown no increase in yield and no
decrease in pesticide use. In many cases other farm technology has
proven much more successful, and even Monsanto agrees that its
genetically engineered crops yield less than conventional farming.
the Daily Beast
[Bad habits] cannot explain the ballooning of one particular segment of
the population, a segment that doesn’t go to movies, can’t chew, and was
never that much into exercise: babies. In 2006 scientists at the
Harvard School of Public Health reported that the prevalence of obesity in infants under 6 months had risen 73 percent since 1980. “This
epidemic of obese 6-month-olds,” as endocrinologist Robert Lustig of
the University of California, San Francisco, calls it, poses a problem
for conventional explanations of the fattening of America. “Since
they’re eating only formula or breast milk, and never exactly got a lot
of exercise, the obvious explanations for obesity don’t work for
babies,” he points out. “You have to look beyond the obvious.”
GMO’s only benefit the companies that patent and sell them., Monsanto, etc. Two out of the six countries that manufacture GMO’s have banned them in their own country.
The USA is too corrupt to protect it’s citizens and ban GMO’s.
http://www.aaemonline.org/gmopost.html
They are not safe, regardless of the flawed, industry produced studies.
For any Canadians out there:
http://gmoinquiry.ca/where/
The GMO Inquiry 2015
is a project of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN). CBAN
is a campaign coalition of 17 organizations that researches, monitors
and raises awareness about issues relating to genetic engineering in
food and farming. CBAN members include farmer associations,
environmental and social justice organizations, and regional coalitions
of grassroots groups. CBAN is a project of Tides Canada Initiatives.
Good post- and good site- I look forward to sharing this link for the benefit of the readers here.
LabelGMOsNewEngland!
Organic Consumers Association
Dear Organic Consumer,
At noon today, several of our Maine-based OCA staff joined Maine lawmakers at a press conference in the State House to announce the introduction of a bill to require mandatory labeling of GMOs now—not later.
OCA is leading the grassroots coalition that will work to pass LD 991, a bill that has strong bipartisan support in the Maine state legislature.
Please help us raise $200,000 by March 31 to fund GMO labeling in
Maine, and in other New England states, including Massachusetts. Details on how to donate online, by check or by phone here.
If you were wondering if Monsanto had knocked the wind out of our sails, wonder no more. We may have narrowly lost a few ballot initiatives. But we won in Vermont in 2014.
And we can win in Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island this year. But only if we pull out all the stops.
You may recall that in 2013, Maine passed a GMO labeling law. But that law contained a trigger clause which requires five Northeast states, including New Hampshire, to also pass mandatory labeling laws before Maine’s law can take effect. Maine’s 2013 law also said that if the five-state threshold isn’t met by December 31, 2018, the bill is dead.
We can’t let that happen.
Please help us raise $200,000 by March 31 to fund GMO labeling in Maine, and in other New England states, including Massachusetts. Details on how to donate online, by check or by phone here.
The bill we introduced today, with broad, bipartisan support, would remove the trigger and make Maine the second state to pass a trigger-free mandatory GMO labeling bill.
Why is Maine important? And why do we also need to raise money to support mandatory GMO labeling in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and other New England states?
Because the race is on in Washington D.C., a race funded by Monsanto and the junk food industry, to pass a federal law that would preempt states’ rights to protect their own citizens by passing state
GMO labeling laws.
Right now, only Vermont has passed a trigger-free labeling law. And the state is currently defending that law against a suit filed by the biotech and junk food industries.
As soon as enough states have passed laws requiring the mandatory labeling of GMO foods, Congress will be forced to follow suit—not with a weak, voluntary law that has no teeth, but with a strong, mandatory law that provides consumers with the same basic information that citizens
in more than 60 other countries already have the right to know.
We believe we can win in Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island this year. But only if we commit the resources to counter the inevitable attack we will face in these states by Monsanto and the Junk Food
Giants.
Please make a donation here today to help us raise $200,000 by March 31.
Yes lets spend all that money needlessly just so the federal government can enact a national standard of voluntary labeling.
What really scares you about labellng? What are you and Monsanto really hiding. Oh well we’ll soon find out .
And by the way comrade this is a democracy.
Do you ever tire of being wrong? Look it up the US is NOT a democracy, it is a republic. You really do make this to easy Johnny. The least you could do is try.
I see you still can ‘t answer the question – that’s because you can’t give an honest answer and yes, for all intents and purposes we are a democracy
Do you even know the what a democracy is? Obviously not, LOL. The founding fathers didn’t want anything to do with it, and they were right in doing so because of the irrational thinking like labeling. So you just really can’t admit it can you? LOL, why Johnny? afraid everyone will think less of you for admitting something we all know already?
The founding fathers wanted to have a republic because of GMO labeling. Boy I laughed some hard on that one.
I see you still can ‘t answer the question – that’s because you can’t
give an honest answer and yes, for all intents and purposes we are a
democracy
Insulting hundreds of thousands of Americans again are you Sammy?
You wouldn’t know anything about the founding fathers- all you ever studied was facism.
Prove you know what I studied? Once again you are just running off the mouth about things you have no clue. We do have your own words though to prove you have no idea what kind of government we have.
I know you are a student of fascism and I know what you haven’t studied.
Yes, just as you KNOW the United States is a democracy. Lol, you are a riot johnny boy.
Trying to divert the main topic of conversation again I see.
Trying to stay on the topic of getting you to repent your errors. So what kind of government do we have again Johnny?
We have a very corrupt government Sammy
Trouble staying on issue Johnny? We were discussing what type it is and how you don’t even know that simple thing. But I will humor you if you think it is so corrupt then leave.
Data
Ginsberg and Bachner made a point of surveying individuals who
had been hired or appointed—that is, the unelected who make policy.
They gathered directories of government offices, think tanks, and
Capitol Hill offices, then emailed individuals. They reached
respondents in person and online. Ultimately, they gathered about 1,000
responses, which Ginsberg says is about the same response rate used by
the average national survey intended to represent the views of 350
million Americans. Findings included that 46.5 percent of respondents
believed the percentage of the U.S. population that is 65 or older is 22
percent, when in reality it is 13 percent; 43.1 percent of respondents
believed the median income in the United States to be $47,000, when it
is actually $52,000; and 47.6 percent of respondents believed
African-Americans make up 17 percent of the population of the United
States, when in fact it’s closer to 13 percent.
But do they know the type of government?
They do but unlike you they don’t want fascism
Wrong again Johnny, quite a habit of yours isn’t it. I like it the way it is. By the way what is that way Johnny?
If you don’t like it on this blog why don’t you leave? What are you really doing here What’s really your agenda?
To discredit liars like you. And to educate you of course on the type of government we have here in the good old USA. Of course so far I have failed in that area, because you still don’t have a clue.
You are the big failure here. No one believes a word you say since you can’t back up anything you say. How’s that check from Monsanto- a little less this week?
Last check from Monsanto was over ten years ago for chemical rebates. Since then we haven’t sold any of their products. I have repeatedly told you this but you do not listen. As far as facts I back them up plenty for people that really want to know to learn something, but you obviously don’t because you don’t even care enough to learn what kind of government we have.
Let’s hear you back them up here – can’t do it- you’re a fraud
Johnny, why do you always try to change the subject Johnny? Admit your mistakes and then we can move on.
You are the only one hung up on that Sammy.
Yes I am. I think it is disgraceful that you care so little for you country that you can’t even know the basics about it.
You don’t care about this country because you are willing to expose men women and children to this GMO experiment. I wonder if your conscience will bother you when all the ugly repercussions finally appear and there will be no going back
Conscience is fine. Does not bother me one bit to put those healthy gmos on my families table. I think it is far better than some of those organic labeled produce that were created using atomic radiation. As far as who care about the country, at least I care enough to know what type of government we have.
Except for the fact that you don’t know they are healthy or not. You are only going on biased information you have received second hand.
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, just like I know what type of government we have Johnny. None of these are secrets Johnny so why is it you are always in the dark?
Chemical boy, we were founded as a “Republic” but in the early 20th century we really became a democratic society, unfortunate but that is the truth. Please stop lying to yourself and everyone here! If we had a true Republic I doubt we would have the current mess that we have. Enough of your lies, and you win, I won’t reply so that you can play your assinen games.
So you really wish we had a true republic so are weak state governments would quit giving into the whining of the mob that call for labeling for no good reason? You seem to have more sense that anyone gave you credit for kimmie, you really do like gmos!!
After 20 years in Washington, Johns Hopkins political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg came to believe that American policymakers assume the
American public is stupid. So in 2013, he and Jennifer Bachner, director of the Johns Hopkins master’s program in government analytics, decided to find out in a more rigorous scholarly way what Washington’s bureaucrats think of the Americans they represent. The researchers sought the opinions of 850 civil servants, congressional and White House staffers, and consultants and contractors.
The forthcoming book What the Government Thinks of the People (W.W.
Norton, 2016) addresses disparities between the ruling and the ruled.
It also offers suggestions that Ginsberg and Bachner believe could llessen the polarity between the two.
Context
Ginsberg, who is chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies in D.C., wanted to survey unelected U.S. policymakers because while elected officials pass legislation, the unelected write the rules.”Much of what we think of as the law is written not by elected officials but by government agencies,” he says. “That’s why it’s important to find out how they view us—they aren’t elected, and much of what they do is not overseen.”
This issue is possibly the most important Ginsberg has addressed in book form, he says. “The creators of the Constitution created a very nice framework, but much of our government is in the hands of bureaucrats, who on a day-to-day basis march to their own drummers.”
I bet Ginsberg could tell you the form of government how bout you Johnny Boy?
There are hundreds of thousands of Americans in the White house?
The founding fathers would never have approved of GMOs
LOL, you know so much about them like what kind of government they created for us. Don’t even try and go there you already lost all credibility on that one Johnny. Why don’t you man up and admit for a change you were wrong.
You are very Naive. You are living in the past. The government we have to day is nothing like the founding fathers had in mind. In those days you didn’t have huge powerful companies who were in bed with the government. You need to wake up and smell the roses. You are being duped and can’t see the light.
The form of government is still the same. You like to talk out of both sides of your mouth. For farming you claim we can’t be progressive and have to go back to the “old ways of the past” and for everything else you only want progress. Once again you simply can’t believe anything you say.
Upshot
Moving forward, Ginsberg thinks bureaucrats must receive more
education about the nation’s citizens: “Number one, we need to expect
officials to have a fiduciary responsibility [toward those they
represent], like a doctor or a lawyer. I don’t need a good understanding
of the criminal code to hire a lawyer—they’re trained in that. Civil
servants aren’t good servants to us, [in part because] they have no
training in how to understand the American public.”
He also thinks mass media mistakenly concentrate on how little
citizens know about government. ”I got tired of reading those articles
about what people know about government and how they couldn’t pass the
citizenship quiz, which is a very silly quiz, by the way. There’s this
entire area of literature disparaging the people.” We should be more
concerned about how little government knows about its citizens, he says.
Still trying to change the topic? just admit that you were wrong. It really isn’t that hard Johnny.
Why should the government be more educated on citizens like you that don’t care enough to learn about the basics of the government? It sounds Johnny like you are worried they might take away your food stamps someday. Maybe you should figure out what type of government we have so you can do something about it.
Oh my not this again – you just insulted millions of Americans- Americans don’t want fascism – why don’t you leave your fascist ideals out of here.
Johnny, again try to follow this time we don’t have a fascist government, if we did troublemakers like yourself would have disappeared long ago. That strike two Johnny, try again and tell us what kind of government we have.
Having trouble reading my posts again? You really have to stop smoking that weed
Tell us again what type of government do we have johnny boy?
Yes, lets have industry spend over 100 million dollars to fight labeling their unwanted, altered food.
http://www.inspirationgreen.com/vote-yes-on-37.html
We will be spending much more money in health care after the problems of GMO products surface their ugly heads.
how long do we have to wait? After twenty years zero issues the only thing ugly is your lies, and lack of knowledge about your country.
I can see from your comment you know very little about science and even less about how huge corporations can fudge their research in order to sell a poisonous product to the public. You really need to take off those rose colored glasses and wake up to the truth.
Yes the great conspiracy it always has to be doesn’t it. We have used them in the real world for almost twenty years now with zero issues so it has confirmed the research that they are totally safe. By the way what type of government do we have? If you don’t know the simple stuff why should we believe anything else?
What do you and your bosses have to hide Bobo?
Nothing John boy, except maybe what kind of government we have! They put it in plain view and you are still to blind johnny boy.
Lets don’t forget that the American Academy of Environmental Medicine is listed on Quackwatch as well.
So what.
Monsanto has been voted the most hated corporation on earth.
Put that on quackwatch too.
237WallSt Jan 14, 2015 America’s Most Hated Companies
Monsanto didn’t even make the top ten in America let alone the world. Maybe if gullible people like yourself wouldn’t believe lies from organizations like the AAEM they wouldn’t get a such a bad wrap.
So, in 2015, they fell out of the top ten.
What an accomplishment!
It is but still well behind helping farmers to feed the world!!
They are only concerned with market shares and profits.
http://www.grain.org/article/entries/4720-gmos-fooling-er-feeding-the-world-for-20-years
http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/GMO/Monsanto/monsanto.html
That’s a complete lie. You can’t back up a word you say. It does the opposite. It causes farmers to commit suicide.
LOL I guess they could get buried under the mountain of grain we have produced the last two years. You are a riot Johnny Boy.
If you were a farmer or had any idea what farmers have to suffer through, you would be more sympathetic to the farmers plight and not making light of their situation.
Still can’t back up a word you say. Monsanto is going to do a better job with their troll choosing.
LOL, yes raising record yields for the last two years does present a lot of problems logistically for the poor things. Fuel bills are extremely high making all those extra trips to the bins. Or should I be sympathetic to the best five year stretch in farm profits? You Sir Johnny have no clue how good have been on the farm the last five years.
Now I know you are against the farmers -you just proved it to everyone here
Thanks!
My customers would disagree since I have helped them to make a lot of money the last few years.
In your wildest dreams. You only have one customer – that’s Monsanto. And you have made Monsanto very mad since they know you haven’t had any effect on readers here..
Monsanto as a customer! That would make me pretty important if my business sold to them? I realize that you think some like myself, who has a far superior iq to you