Genetically Modified Organisms have been in our food for a while; however, long-term studies are never done and the short term studies are done by industry funded scientists. The GMO issue is very complex. GMOs could conceivably be used for good. However, the political, social, legal, environmental, livestock, and human physiological effects of this technology will likely never be given balanced or objective overview. This is largely due to the inordinate influence of GMO producing agri-giants over the supposed regulatory bodies in our political system.
In the eighties, the FDA found GMO crops to be generally recognized as safe and, so long as the industries fund and hand-pick 90 day studies, these "authorities" don't recognize any substantial difference between GMO crops and their natural counterparts. Most testing cannot pinpoint the meaningful differences of GMO crops at the DNA level and they cannot predict what mutant amino acids/allergens may be altered or accentuated in individual plants.
Nowadays, GMOs are in nearly every packaged product, usually sweeteners or oils and lesser known ingredients, and are on the verge of replacing many whole fresh fruits and vegetables sold. Corn, sweet corn, soy, canola, cotton, sugar beets, papaya (bummer, investigate papaya enzymes), yellow crookneck squash, alfalfa, and zuccini have been approved. Whole fresh foods in produce aisles have stickers, you can identify fresh GMO foods by the number which begins with an 8. Not sure if alfalfa has been approved for human consumption (to the sprouters out there), but who really knows, considering cross pollination. Many more are on the verge of approval.
Many companies have caught on to consumers' concerns with HFCornSyrup, so "sugar", from GM sugar beets, is possibly/likely found in products unless they explicitly state "cane sugar". As of now products labeled "natural" may contain GMOs.
As of now, most approved genetically modified crops are designed to do one of two things: survive massive dousing of Round-Up Herbicide (yum), or grow with soil bacterium (bacillus thuringiensis) genes in every cell of the plant which acts as a pesticide to mess with the digestive system of insects and kill them. Yes, BT is sometimes sprayed onto crops by organic growers, but this can be washed off--unlike the GM crops with much higher concentrations of BT inside the cells of the plant. The one and only human experiment involving GMOs found BT to survive and populate the gut of their digestive flora... http://www.saynotogmos.org/scientific_studies.htm
Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rbgh), a genetically engineered hormone, is used in non-organic milk and has been found to dramatically increase the amount of IGF-1 (a hormone) in the resultant milk and, in humans, is associated with breast and prostate cancer. RBGH also causes mastitis in the cows resulting in puss and infections requiring antibiotics which then cause drug resistant bacteria (MAP, anyone?).
Please see here for comprehensive movies, studies, and shopping guides: www.responsibletechnology.org
Please see here for proof of undeniable conflicts of interest by clicking the graph halfway down the page(WARNING: O-bots may fry their mainframes and, to be sure, Mittens' cartel would be just as rife with corporatists and Goldman Sachs banksters):
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a.../ge-food-supporters-insist-organic-foods.aspx
The tumorous Food and Toxicology Journal's rat findings of late, which dared to conduct a long-term study (take it or leave it, the fact remains this is the most comprehensive study ever allowed to be done on GMOs): http://research.sustainablefoodtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Final-Paper.pdf
Here is a reasonable article from an otherwise slanted source which put the paper in perspective:
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/09/gmo-corn-rat-tumor
***Anyhow, I just thought I'd do a brief overview to get people thinking about GMOs. Californians should consider voting YES on Proposition 37 coming up on Tuesday, November 6th to JUST LABEL GMOs.<--Update: this was lost to mega-corporatists who shoveled $55 million to dissuade and influence communities against voting Yes with misleading ads , etc.. Not only that, but a recount was started by Tom Courbat, former senior budget analyst for LA County and leader of Prop 37 recount, until Fresno County wanted to charge tens of thousands of dollars ($18,000 up front, $4,000 per day). Courbat estimated a 3 week recount to cost $78,000 and gave up. Compare this to the Orange County recount which only costed $600 a day (no substantial change in totals was found there).
In the eighties, the FDA found GMO crops to be generally recognized as safe and, so long as the industries fund and hand-pick 90 day studies, these "authorities" don't recognize any substantial difference between GMO crops and their natural counterparts. Most testing cannot pinpoint the meaningful differences of GMO crops at the DNA level and they cannot predict what mutant amino acids/allergens may be altered or accentuated in individual plants.
Nowadays, GMOs are in nearly every packaged product, usually sweeteners or oils and lesser known ingredients, and are on the verge of replacing many whole fresh fruits and vegetables sold. Corn, sweet corn, soy, canola, cotton, sugar beets, papaya (bummer, investigate papaya enzymes), yellow crookneck squash, alfalfa, and zuccini have been approved. Whole fresh foods in produce aisles have stickers, you can identify fresh GMO foods by the number which begins with an 8. Not sure if alfalfa has been approved for human consumption (to the sprouters out there), but who really knows, considering cross pollination. Many more are on the verge of approval.
Many companies have caught on to consumers' concerns with HFCornSyrup, so "sugar", from GM sugar beets, is possibly/likely found in products unless they explicitly state "cane sugar". As of now products labeled "natural" may contain GMOs.
As of now, most approved genetically modified crops are designed to do one of two things: survive massive dousing of Round-Up Herbicide (yum), or grow with soil bacterium (bacillus thuringiensis) genes in every cell of the plant which acts as a pesticide to mess with the digestive system of insects and kill them. Yes, BT is sometimes sprayed onto crops by organic growers, but this can be washed off--unlike the GM crops with much higher concentrations of BT inside the cells of the plant. The one and only human experiment involving GMOs found BT to survive and populate the gut of their digestive flora... http://www.saynotogmos.org/scientific_studies.htm
Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rbgh), a genetically engineered hormone, is used in non-organic milk and has been found to dramatically increase the amount of IGF-1 (a hormone) in the resultant milk and, in humans, is associated with breast and prostate cancer. RBGH also causes mastitis in the cows resulting in puss and infections requiring antibiotics which then cause drug resistant bacteria (MAP, anyone?).
Please see here for comprehensive movies, studies, and shopping guides: www.responsibletechnology.org
Please see here for proof of undeniable conflicts of interest by clicking the graph halfway down the page(WARNING: O-bots may fry their mainframes and, to be sure, Mittens' cartel would be just as rife with corporatists and Goldman Sachs banksters):
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a.../ge-food-supporters-insist-organic-foods.aspx
The tumorous Food and Toxicology Journal's rat findings of late, which dared to conduct a long-term study (take it or leave it, the fact remains this is the most comprehensive study ever allowed to be done on GMOs): http://research.sustainablefoodtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Final-Paper.pdf
Here is a reasonable article from an otherwise slanted source which put the paper in perspective:
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/09/gmo-corn-rat-tumor
***Anyhow, I just thought I'd do a brief overview to get people thinking about GMOs. Californians should consider voting YES on Proposition 37 coming up on Tuesday, November 6th to JUST LABEL GMOs.<--Update: this was lost to mega-corporatists who shoveled $55 million to dissuade and influence communities against voting Yes with misleading ads , etc.. Not only that, but a recount was started by Tom Courbat, former senior budget analyst for LA County and leader of Prop 37 recount, until Fresno County wanted to charge tens of thousands of dollars ($18,000 up front, $4,000 per day). Courbat estimated a 3 week recount to cost $78,000 and gave up. Compare this to the Orange County recount which only costed $600 a day (no substantial change in totals was found there).
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