Quotes about Gm Corn from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "Pigs fed gm corn on about 25 farms in North America became sterile, had false pregnancies or gave birth to bags of water. Cows fed gm corn in Germany died mysteriously. And twice the number of chickens died when fed gm corn compared to those fed with natural corn. . . .
According to a report in the Daily Express, soon after GM soy was introduced to the UK, rom the Ecologist. December/Janua soy allergies skyrocketed by 50%. A gene from a Brazil nut inserted into soybeans made the soy allergenic to those who normally react to Brazil nuts. . . ."- Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "However, studies such as Pusztai's and Ermakova's are finally beginning to emerge and they illustrate that there are severe problems with GMO foods and products, as the following excerpt from Jeffrey Smith's Seeds of Deception shows: Rats fed gm corn had problems with blood cell, kidney and liver formation. Mice fed GM soy had problems with liver cell formation and pancreatic function, and the livers of rats fed with GM canola were heavier. Pigs fed gm corn on about 25 farms in North America became sterile, had false pregnancies or gave birth to bags of water." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) |
 "GM corn from the United States, although ethanol production is raising prices, exacerbating nutritional problems in poorer countries. This flawed system of Western subsidies has allowed for an ongoing flow of capital into developed countries, while eroding the livelihoods of small domestic and foreign farmers who can't compete with the artificially reduced prices.
This is nothing new: tropical resources have been exploited for the benefit of the North since the mercantilist era."- Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) |
 "This comment was made in expert testimony in response to the chicken feeding study on the gm corn Chardon LL. The number of replicates (in this case, chicken feeding pens) was so low [n=4] that even a doubling of the death rate was dismissed as statistically significant, (see section 1.17) Many GMO studies funded by industry suffer the same limitation.
Judy Carman "Groups of 5-6 Holstein dairy cows were fed uncooked soybeans. This is a totally inadequate sample size and would not be expected to show any differences between the groups. Yet a difference was found."- Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) |
| "And twice the number of chickens died when fed gm corn compared to those fed with natural corn. . . .
According to a report in the Daily Express, soon after GM soy was introduced to the UK, rom the Ecologist. December/Janua soy allergies skyrocketed by 50%. A gene from a Brazil nut inserted into soybeans made the soy allergenic to those who normally react to Brazil nuts. . . .
GM soy contains significantly more tripsin inhibitor, a common allergen in soy . . . data [Monsanto] had omitted from the study, and later recovered, showed that the increase was as high as seven-fold in cooked soy.
." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) |
| "Some of the difficulties of tracking a GM food's effects were witnessed when StarLink, a gm corn variety unapproved for human consumption, contaminated the US food supply. The concern was that the properties of StarLink's GM protein may trigger allergic reactions. But even with a recall affecting more than three hundred brands and a major disruption of US corn exports, the investigation mounted by the FDA to determine whether the food was allergenic was miserable." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "Farmers report pigs and cows became sterile from gm corn................................................................36 1.9 Twelve cows in Germany died mysteriously when fed Bt corn..............................................................38 1.10 Mice fed Roundup Ready soy had liver cell problems...........................................................................40 1.11 Mice fed Roundup Ready soy had problems with the pancreas............................................................42 1.12 Mice fed Roundup Ready soy had unexplained changes in testicular cells..............." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "Rosman had fed his hogs gm corn since 1997. When he switched to Bt Liberty Link varieties from Garst Hybrids in 2000, the problem started. It persisted through most of 2001 with "several brief upswings in pregnancy rates"49 coinciding with the times when sows were fed the previous year's (1999) corn. Four nearby farmers told Rosman they too were having hog conception problems and were using Garst corn. Right after the Farm Bureau Spokesman ran a story on Rosman in 2002, other farmers called complaining of sterile pigs. As media coverage expanded, so did the calls." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) |
 "In 1998 a group of two hundred French farmers broke into a Novartis warehouse, opened sacks of gm corn, and doused their contents with water. One of the organizers of the Novartis action, Rene Riesel, delivered an eloquent defense in court, asking, "Is it still possible to make the truth heard when so many political and economic powers are in league to cover it up? . .. My comrades and I felt it was urgent to act before it was too late."68
In 2005 a French court actually dismissed criminal charges against forty-nine activists who had uprooted a field of gm corn. "- Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.) |
 "Read labels—if a label lists ingredients such as corn flour and meal, dextrin, starch, soy sauce, margarine, and tofu, there is a good chance that it has come from gm corn or soy.11 Look closely at produce stickers. These stickers on fruit and vegetables contain different PLU codes depending on how the item was grown. The PLU code for conventionally grown fruit consists of four numbers; organically grown fruit has five numbers, prefaced by the number 9; and GM fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number 8. Avoid all fortified or enriched foods."- KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.) |
 "EU officials went to Zambia to explain that if Zambia grew gm corn, it would not affect the country's ability to export other agricultural products—vegetables, flowers, and coffee. Those products would be unaffected because they don't mate with corn.
The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Ann Veneman, blamed an-tibiotech forces for scaring Zambians into believing that gm corn would harm them. "- Peter Pringle, Food, Inc. Mendel to Monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest (Get the book.) |
| "Another concern is that some GM foods, such as gm corn, are being manipulated to resist synthetic pesticides. As a result, more of the pesticide is being used and humans' exposure to toxic pesticides is actually increasing while insects develop resistance to the pesticides' toxic effects. Finally, we also respect the strong sentiment that genetic engineering is morally wrong as it implicates an attempt to modify nature beyond natural laws." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.) |
 "Again, when Ahern met Senator Bond from Missouri and several members of congress, the issue was gm corn. According to Toby Moffet a former congressman turned Monsanto man, "Everywhere he went, before people said 'Happy St. Patrick's Day,' they asked him, 'What about that corn vote?'" The amazed Moffet said, "I'm fifty-four years old, and I've been in a lot of coalitions in my life, but this is one of the most breathtaking I've seen."
The next day, Ireland cast its vote in favor of Monsanto's gm corn, the first time Ireland acted in favor of a GMO release."- Jeffrey M. Smith, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating (Get the book.) |
| "Zambia refused a donation of gm corn from the United States in 2002, and Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe have refused gm corn unless it is first milled to eliminate the risk of contaminating crops.61 In 2006 a "farmers' jury" in Mali listened to arguments for and against GM crops for five days and then urged its government to reject them." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.) |
| "GM corn passes through the human gut undigested, thereby providing no nutrition at all. Human digestive enzymes don't know what to do with those figments of human imagination coming down the pike. Even more refined research (Environmental Health Perspectives January 29th 2004) shows just exacdy how the hormone-disrupting pesticides, so liberally used on GMOs, disrupt the chemical signaling in the body such as to interfere with normal gene activity. This week's Nature (April 22) seems to deal the deathblow to genetic messing-around in agriculture." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) |
| "His vote was needed to carry the EU's acceptance of Monsanto's gm corn. When Ahern had lunch with National Security Advisor Council Director Sandy Berger, the topic that Berger chose to focus on was the need to get that corn vote. Again, when Ahern met Senator Bond from Missouri and several members of congress, the issue was gm corn. According to Toby Moffet a former congressman turned Monsanto man, "Everywhere he went, before people said 'Happy St. Patrick's Day,' they asked him, 'What about that corn vote?'" - Jeffrey M. Smith, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating (Get the book.) |
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