Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

re: Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

Tinkrmann — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:31:50 GMT

Although I make no claims as to medical expertise, myAmerican half-sister, who is an MD, has referred to ma to one of our other siblings as a "quack" and only makes terse comments, generally non-commital, when I speak of alternative and effective treatments for certain ailments.

She treated my youngest son for a respiratory ailment awhile back and all the things she stuffed him with only made him throw up.

some time later, he commented, "All that stuff she gave me and I'm still sick..."

That evening, his cough was worse than ever and he asked for my remedy: garlic. I gave him a teaspoon of chopped garlic and shortly thereafter, he was able to sleep soundly and not cough any more.

If I am a quack, I nevertheless know how to treat my two sons' illnesses; if I don't know a remedy I look it up.

Since she does the same, does this make HER a quack??? Only, I use naturopathic remedies; she uses the prescription drugs, many samples of which she has, and dispensed to my son that day.

Although I am aware of GM foods, I didn't know how to determine what is at supermkts.. I've better informaiton now. Because of limited land I grow only a limited amount.

As for voting, Ron Paul was the only alternative choice in this last election.

We need a leader like the one in Austrailia, who told the Islamists like it is in his country.

There is a REASON why the 10 Commandments are on the Supreme Court doors: it's so ordered in the Bible, to the Israelites, the Jews. If you are Christian, you are Jew by adoption. That is also written in the Book of G-d.

Thank you, nogmoploease, for that list of references.

re: Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

jhays — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:39:19 GMT

There are so many good informative comments here, I doubt I can add much.

However, I have been thinking about this for the last few days. I admit I had no idea how broad reaching this has already become. I recall back in the 80's, I got involved in some national environmental campaigns, I was so naive, I thought if people found out about all these chemicals in the environment that they would band together and fight. Of course most of those here know how far that got, we made some progress, certainly not enough. Thus global warming is now called climate change. We still have the impending inevitability of that, as well.

Now here we are almost 25 years later, here I sit, wondering, will this ever stop? I wonder how many people it takes to actually initiate change? Are the cards stacked against good wholesome living, for the prosperity of the rich and greed stricken? Those same chemical companies that I was fighting back in the 80's, they are the same ones involved in GMO. Think about that!

Here is a quote from Bertrand Russell,

"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible."

"The Impact of Science on Society", 1953

re: Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

johnfryer — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:15:04 GMT

A Comment on Dr Pusztai

He has already got a mention.

Many years ago he was on an investigatory UK TVprogramme Monday evening and on Wednesday he was sacked (the same week) from his university where he had worked for many years. Why?

I believe in USA Don Imus who asked questions about mercury in infants vaccines was sacked on a pretext by comments to a group who not only did not mind but forgave him and to boot Don said it was a stupid comment, was also sacked summarily after many years.

It is always good to think the great and ecudcated are brought down but when they come for you?

John Fryer Chemist

By the way what is the point of an SV40 virus, an EColi bacterium and two antibiotics being brought together?

Answer 1 The Nobel Prize for Paul Berg 1980

2 Death in Epidemic Proportions to the world from an illness predicted at the time he did his research by another person an expert on EColi and like many here including Dr Mercola who said what happens if the EColi bug is taken up to the brain and destroys it?

No such illness was found although they looked for 18 months to find it.

One lady died in San Francisco in 1973 to 1975 lost reference from an AIDS like condition.

The world knows about AIDS today and how it kills?

Finally Paul Berg founded a multi million dollar GMO industry with all the power that money brings in its trail.

And last of all I note that Monsanto was sold a few years ago - the normal process to change name, change owners to make the accountability trail impossible to follow?

re: Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

annapaloma — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:47:43 GMT

This one hit the news in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada last week. A consumer cut into a tomato to find a fully mature strawberry in the centre of it. A novelty news item for sure, but very scarey.

re: Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

Andrea Dinovo — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:56:05 GMT

My father, Andres R. Cordova, who worked for the UN (FAO) back in the 50's, went to Mexico with Dr. Borlaug to help the Mexicans improved their yields of corn, rice and wheat. My dad was an agronomist from New Mexico, and considered an agricultural genius. He wrote booklets way back then describing organic ways to get more out of the land. In an arid environment like NM, mulching, etc. comes in handy to squelch weeds and retain ground moisture. Anyways, we went to Mexico in 1953, and there he worked with Dr. B and another man whose name I cannot remember (I was only 5 years old). They taught the natives how to grow maize on terraced hills, how to mulch, how to optimize the use of fertilizer, etc., and the yields of those grains did increase as predicted. He died in 1971 and never got into bio-technology and gene splicing, etc. I cannot say if he would have been for it or against it. He probably would have advised for testing and analyzing the outcomes, like environmental impact, actual nutritional ratios, adverse health reactions, etc. If the soil isn't going to benefit, and the GM soybeans produce smaller and weaker rats in the lab, and yields per acre are smaller (due to other killer weeds that RoundUp doesn't touch) then what is the point of all the effort? Far easier, is to haul in all the manure the steers are producing and no one knows what to do with, use all the organic recycled materials people collect, and use Bt as a "sprinkled on" pesticide, so it is not IN the product, just ON it, and can be washed off. There also are organic herbicides, made of the fatty acids from soap. They are not harmful to people, pets, or the soil. People would be willing to pay an extra .25c per pound for produce to get organic foods on the table, and know they are saving the eco system, and enriching the land year by year, rather than depleting it. Agro companies could have satisfied their greed by producing better seed naturally by selective breeding techniques!

re: Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

themikeb — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:56:34 GMT

Infecting seeds with altered e coli (among others) nothing tested longterm, GREED over rules common sense and safety. star treck ? We have become Ferengi (sp)

I am sickened by this.

But it all makes sense.If Pig Pharma cannot get us to take pills voluntary, make the food sick first, then we have no choice....We've become labrats that pay for our own upkeep and enrich the 'elite' some more.

Disgusted beyond verbage

re: Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

JDSO — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:34:16 GMT

Interesting - I developed a soy allergy in 1998. The only way to truly avoid soy is to buy organic - processed foods are just loaded with it!

re: Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

Thr3e — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:21:59 GMT

This video was fascinating. And enraging. I think this is exactly the place the federal government needs to get out of bed with all the big companies and special interests, and do what's right for the American people. That means requiring food producers to inform us by clearly and accurately labeling foods that have GMOs so we can make up our own minds if we want to eat that garbage. How can I possibly make up my mind if I don't know what's in the food I eat?

P.S. You can't patent life. God owns the patent and Monasanto is infringing on it, at everyone's peril. We will all pay the penalty for this infringement if we don't do something about it.

re: Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

katz — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:52:51 GMT

OH MY GOSH !!!!!!!.... Yes, I am shocked ! ....... Yes, I am ANGRY !!!!!!

I was aware of GM foods but I didn't realize this HORRIBLE DANGER that our life-support food supply source is facing !! The only reason I see for man to try to improve on what God created is MONEY & GREED from big companies !!

I raise chickens for family eggs and I can already tell something is not right with the corn as they wont eat it . I told my feed-store lady about it and she just said nobody had ever mentioned a problem with it before .... so I changed brands of hen scratch feed and still ,sometimes they just wont eat it and neither will the ducks. I have also had the chickens and ducks refuse the wheat grains once. I think animals have a inborn instinct to eat and not eat things as I also have milk and meat goats for raw milk and meat, and my goats wont eat certain plants out in the pasture as its impossible to eradicate all the poison plants that grow wild, but they know and they avoid them....... This movement by the $$$ men must be stopped as I want and I have the right to choose the type of Apple that I want to eat..... I don't want to be limited to 1-2 types of apples and then have the apples have some weird DNA mixed in it like insecticide to repel bugs, produce more apples or bruise and ship easier . Just because it LOOKS like a apple does not make it a healthy apple !! If GM food is allowed to continue to take over and limit what is grown, farmers quit growing and the big companies take over the whole process of ... Buy our product for $$ or do without . This is just the supply and demand for $$$ greed end of it and in the long run we don't know what the modified food is doing to our body in the years to come and what it's affect will be on our children that from their birth moment they receive life sustaining nourishment that their body is getting GM food .... This just has to be STOPPED !!

re: Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

dressagefreak — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:14:14 GMT

Does anyone else find it highly ironic and sad that potentially life-saving stem cell research is put on hold because of politics and religion, yet they have no qualms whatsoever when it comes to GMO's? Did the Bible-bangers forget that god entrusted us to take care of his Earth? (that is, if you believe in god...but even as an Atheist *gasp* I happen to care...a lot.) It just makes me angry that our government is so screwed up.

re: Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

Esther M. Cook — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:15:31 GMT

I am currently taking a college class in Molecular Cloning and Site-Directed Mutagenesis. This is a wonderful research tool to find out how genes and enzymes work. Modifying food is another breed of cat altogether.

Bacterial genes are all transcribed into proteins in one straight piece, with a start site preceded by controls about when to make that protein, the gene, and a stop code.

Plants, animals, and yeast have a much more complicated protein-producing meachanism. There will be

a start site, with controls determining when to transcribe that gene,

then a sequence turned into several amino acids (part of a protein), followed by

gobbledy gook, "junk DNA" that is cut out and not used in the protein, called an exon (no known use)

then an "intron" (more DNA that results in more of the protein)

then more introns and exons and eventually

a stop to the whole thing.

It turns out that this remarkably complicated mechanism ( I have left out most of the complicating details) means that a group of DNA introns or coding sections can be used to make a large number of variations on proteins. This increases functions and nuances. Nature is ingenious indeed.

A GMO food could cause the wrong combination to be assembled as protein, with enormous numbers of variants to which nothing in the environment (such as people eating the food, or your dog or cat) is adapted.

This is a creepy addition (or explanation) to all the other reasons GM foods should be far more extensively tested before release.

GMO foods are a truly dangerous gamble. Avoid them.

re: Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

curious7 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:51:52 GMT

Something else the "Alchemists" are trying to use to destroy the health of us all. What is even more frightening is the fact these people do not have to label these foods, and of course the FDA will go along. This junk science has not and will not be properly studied and then when people begin to fall ill, the same claims the cigarette industry made, about there being no direct link proven between cigarettes, and ill health, will be the claim. So now we are held prisoner, and experimented on like lab rats.

But hey Gweneth Paltrow's new movie is a hit, and her new love is a "Hunk." Who cares what they force us to eat. Everyone has to die from something. Right?

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nogmoplease — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:17:33 GMT

Thank You so very much Dr. Mercola for getting the word out. Your right alot of people either think they have never eaten it or don't even know about it(or don't care). I do find it funny that people for GM crops say it has better yields, when in fact the truth is that Organic has better yields. Also, Organic food has atleast 30% more vitamins, nutrients, and minerials than GM crops, because GM crops are waterd. I found out about all of this months ago via LinkTV. Since then I only eat organic (local when I can) and barely eat any meat/dairy(oragic). Since then, I have done aton of research online about all of this. Here are a bunch of websites:

Organic Consumers Association-Millions Agains Monsanto

www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.cfm

Frankenfoods

www.utne.com/.../11285-1.html

GE foods may cause rise in food allergies

www.thecampaign.org/.../showthread.php

Monarch Butterfly deaths from GM pollen Genetic Engineering Action Network

www.globalchange.com/monarch.htm www.geaction.org/index.html

Save Organic Foods Pesticide Action Network North America

www.saveorganicfood.org/index.php www.panna.org/index.html

Genetic Engineering Policy Alliance GeneWatchUK

www.gepolicyalliance.org/resources.htm http://www.genewatch.org/

SayNoToGMO Gene-EthicsWorkingforGEFreeFood

http://www.saynotogmos.org/ http://www.geneethics.org/

SaveOurSeeds HundredYearLie

www.saveourseeds.org/.../eu http://www.hundredyearlie.com/

PharmCrops

www.pharmcrops.com/index1.php

re: Genetically Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them

saynotoquacks — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:43:33 GMT

This is just like Brave New World. People live so separate from nature. It's ungodly. A connection with nature is, I believe, true freedom. To grow and eat your own food that you produce is healthy, natural, and the epitomy of liberty. To live one with nature is liberty. All this Franeknsteinism, GMO's, drugs in food, is meant to dehumanize us and control us. They actually are raising Pharma-crops, food that has pharmaceutical drugs in it! Wonderful fodder for my novel. But not for my body, mind or spirit. I'm afraid to travel because I have to bring my own food with me. I am afraid to eat out. Any suggestions on what to do when you're travelling?

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T_rex — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:17:59 GMT

I liked the "Future of food" video very much. After watching it, I painted my own sign, "Say No to GMO", and taped it on my window facing the sidewalk. I am already buying mostly organic produce and will encourage even more others to do the same.

Hope my grain of sand combined with yours, will eventually produce the desired effect.