GMO’s
Reblogged from realfoodology
What does GMO stand for? Genetically Modified Food.
As of right now they are not legally forced to state when a food contains GMOs. The only time you can really know if a food is free of GMO’s is if it says on the label ‘CONTAINS NO GMOs’. Otherwise it is safe to assume the food you are consuming has some GMOs in it considering that about 94% of soybeans and about 74% corn grown in this country is ALL GMO. and they don’t even have to tell us when our food contains these frakenfoods. HOW SCARY IS THAT?!
Here are some facts from this article that may (and should) concern you about GMOs!
- While Europe, despite immense pressure from the Clinton administration, initially banned them, the FDA hid 40,000 documents indicating their extreme toxicity, to get them introduced in the US.
- Ten years after Monsanto’s Bt corn was first planted in 1996, diabetes had increased 90% with the highest incidence among Hispanics for whom corn is a sacred and central part if their diet.
- Those GMOs are being kept unlabeled. A Monsanto official once said to label them would be like putting a skull and cross bones on them.
- They do not even qualify as food. Food, by normal definition, supports life & fertility and heals. But GMOs are in fact causing infertility and spontaneous abortions in animals and are destroying reproductive organs. This comes on top of studies indicating a relationship to diabetes, cancer, asthma, and birth defects.
- People purchasing elegant looking items believe what they are eating is nourishing food but the pesticides and GMOs, aside from being toxic in themselves, bind to the crucial micronutrients in soil and in the plants, preventing them from being accessed for use by micro-organisms or animals or humans. What matters in food; what makes food, food – is unavailable. It is not by accident that the corporations have actually gotten food redefined as “stuff.”
GMOs were developed by Monsanto which also developed the nuclear bomb, PCBs (considered the most toxic substance known), chemicals weapons, Agent Orange.
If one were to be more accurate about GMOs not being food, one would say that the “stuff” actually meets the definition of bioweapon. This should not be startling since Monsanto has made its fortune in creating weapons of destruction, and with GMOs they shifted to biologic ones (that are patented) that people are tricked or trapped into being exposed to.
Concerned about GMOs? (as you should be) Go here: http://justlabelit.org/ to sign the petition to tell the FDA we have a right to know if our food contains GMOs. (They are required to label it in Europe)
