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Why GMO (GE) Foods Are Dangerous

The safety of GMO foods is unproven and a growing body of research connects these foods with healthconcerns 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.In anada we do not.

! "avid #u$u%i Foundation "r. "avid #u$u%i is a anadian environmentalist.

GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) and GE (Genetically Engineered) are, for allintents and purposes, identical and interchangeable. North America tends to use

GMO, Europe GE, usage varies in the rest of the orld.

!imply put, the process involves ta"ing genetic material from the #NA of one

organism and inserting it into the #NA of another organism. $he idea is to conferthe benefit of the genetic material of the donor organism onto the receiving

organism, thereby %improving% the recipient organism.

Opponents of GMOs call it %playing God.% $his seems e&cessive. 'laying the #evil

might be a more appropriate label. e ill return to the labeling idea later.

$he governments of the !A, *anada and a fe other countries that tend to go

along ith hatever the ! says are either supremely stupid or unspea"ablycorrupt. hile both are highly negative, the shoc"ing possibility e&ists that those

same governments are both stupid and corrupt. $hat is shoc"ing because, given

the present staggering poer of chemical giants such as Monsanto, little short ofphysical revolution may be considered to cause committed countries to bac" aay

from decisions that have harmed and ill harm their on people.

$his article ill not attribute opinion to the results of scientific research. $hat has

been done too often. $he research has been done, the conclusions are public, butthe chemical giants have managed to cover it up so successfully that the ma+ority

of people "no little about them. Governments ho have committed to alloGMOs are too embarrassed to admit their grievous mista"es, so remain silent.

$hey fear litigation as a conseuence of alloing harmful foods on the mar"et.

Millions of people are no in the process of destroying their health as a result.

$his article ill instead appeal to logic, to your sense of right and rong, to hatused to be "non as common sense. GMOs are purely destructive over the long

term, covertly destructive in the short term. -eres hy.

Genetically modified seeds are engineered to ithstand poisons. $hese poisons are

spread over the land in hich the seeds ill gro, ostensibly to "ill off pests and

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plants that ould compete ith the seed during the groing season.

/ou need to understand that these poisons are not selective. $hey are broad

spectrum. $hat is, they "ill everything, every living organism, every plant, everyanimal, every bacterium and other microbe in the soil they touch. As there are

literally millions of microscopic organisms in every teaspoon of fertile soil, that is amassive amount of destruction.

$hen the genetically modified seeds are planted. $hey sprout, they gro, theyeventually produce food0li"e products you ill find in your food mar"et. $he

chemical companies claim the seeds carry none of the poisons ith them tomaturity. 1esearch proves this is a lie. More recent research has found these

poisons in the air people breathe and the ater they drin".

!o, prove it, you say, give us the research. No, 2 ont do that. Articles that

provide support for their arguments based on %scientific research% can and oftenare embarrassingly biased, edited not to give all available evidence but to provide

evidence to support the opinion e&pressed. $he internet ill give you the evidence

if you search. $his article ill not give you one0sided evidence to support itsclaims.

!earch %organic foods pros and cons.% And %gmo foods% to start. $hen %gmo

damage.%

No to the logic or common sense part. 2t has been ell "non and documented

for centuries, even millennia, that very small amounts of poison ingested over an

e&tended period of time ill eventually cause ill health, then death. 3ings andemperors used to have tasters (or the chefs ho prepared their meals) eat some

of the food intended for the leaders before they indulged.

!ome fine mysteries, such as by Agatha *hristie and Arthur *onan #oyle, shoed

ho murderers "illed their victims by giving them small amounts of poison overee"s, months, even years. *ourt records sho ho some people murdered

others in similar ays today.

$he very same companies that produce the seeds that can survive the assaults of

poisons on fields in hich they gro also produce the poisons themselves. Even

today some governments are approving GMO seeds on hich ##$ (an insecticidebanned in most countries decades ago) and components of Agent Orange (best"non for "illing countless innocent people in !E Asia during the 4ietnam ar,

though people are still suffering and dying from it today) may be sprayed. /es, you

read that right.

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Not only do they give permission for farm fields to be poisoned lifeless beforeseeds are planted, they are no giving permission for industrial farmers to spray

poisons directly on the crops.

/ou decide, is that stupidity or corruption5 Or both.

As" yourself ho much sense it ma"es for a human to ta"e as a blood thinner a

poison (arfarin) that in stronger doses "ills rats, a fello mammal. ith all of the

advice e receive about the importance of eating green leafy vegetables to "eepus healthy and e&tend our lives, arfarin users must be careful of them because

the vitamin 36 they contain interferes ith arfarins effectiveness as a bloodthinner. Eating an e&tremely healthy food can harm a arfarin user.

At a time hen health care costs soar dramatically to previously unimaginedheights, governments are "noingly ma"ing more of their on citi7ens sic". 2t is

"non that those living today ill be the first generation in centuries to liveshorter lifespans than their parents. $hat prediction as made because of

idespread obesity.

e may also e&pect it because of idespread poisoning of the foods e eat. /et

government food and drug agencies still call GMO foods safe in some countries.

Many of these same governments are refusing to allo food products ith GMO

ingredients to have labels clearly stating their GMO content. hat ould you callit5 *onsumers are not alloed to "no if the food they buy and eat and feed to

their children is unhealthy or to&ic.

/ou have a choice about hat you eat. 8earn about it first or suffer the

conseuences. $hose conseuences could include not only a shorter lifespan, butyears of ill health before you die. Nobody ants that.

9inal note: chemical giant and the orlds most poerful advocate of GMO seeds(it sells both single year seeds and 1oundup, the poison that "ills everything

before its seeds are planted) Monsanto refuses to allo any GMO products or foodcomponents in its on staff canteen.

;ill Allin is the author of Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today's

Epidemic Social Problems, a boo" about cheap and easily implementedsolutions to pervasive social problems. /es, ill health from GMO food consumption

is a serious social problem.8earn more at http:<<billallin.com