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"The Rise of the Codex Alimentarius Commission Codex guidelines are quite permissive for chemical toxins, mold toxins, antibiotic residues, and the use of unlabelled, genetically modified food. Codex is also seeking to water down the definition of organic, allowing many nonorganic compounds to be present in organic food. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) actively supports the lax Codex standards for food, especially the absence of labels on genetically modified foods." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) "Once the genetically modified food is accepted, then the African people feel Cargill will have the upper hand in controlling their food supply and economy, as in Mexico. Many of them are saying they would rather die than eat genetically modified food and give up their rights to self-sufficiency. One country in this region, Malawi, was forced to use their stored corn to pay their debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (groups that represent the interests of international bankers). Now they are experiencing famine because their food reserves were taken." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Most manufactured foods contain some genetically modified food items. In truth, food that is not grown by nature, cannot serve as food at all. The body has no connection to or recognition of man-made foods that no longer match the "signature" of real foods. Instead of nourishing the cells of the body, manufactured foods slowly starve them to death by accumulating in the organs and tissues. Thus, feeding the body exclusively with manufactured foods is simply homicidal." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"As she dug deeper into the rabbit hole of nutrition and health issues, she became increasingly aware of fasting, cleansing, tinctures and food politics, such as the controversies surrounding organic and genetically modified food, the ethics of eating honey, as well as issues relating to the environment. She realized that cleansing the inner environment wasn't enough: the outer environment also had to be clean if we are to be healthy. She began to recycle for the first time in her life." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Milk products are probably the most genetically modified food on the grocer's shelves. And consumers are becoming wary of the safety of genetically manipulated milk In the face of rising criticism, scientific suspicion, and failed products, the chemical-pharmaceutical-seed firms created another massive advertising campaign in 2003. Instead of going back to the lab, retesting their products, and examining their theories, the GMO corporations created even slicker ads, catchier slogans, and more passionate editorials and bought more TV slots." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"The debates on fluoride in the water supply, on the other hand, along with genetically modified food, animal experimentation, stem-cell research, global warming, and anything else that affects us collectively, are still largely conducted by people the general public has very little to do with. Doctors and patients The doctor-patient relationship may be grossly imperfect in healthcare systems that neglect the time required to develop it, but it is arguably the most underrated resource there is for creating robust public health and reducing levels of anxiety." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"In 1994, the Flavr Savr* tomato (engineered to resist rotting) was the first genetically modified food reviewed and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for human consumption. FDA-employed scientists warned that altered products such as the Flavr Savr® could create toxins in food and trigger allergies. Shockingly, the FDA approved the "Frankenstein" tomato anyway with claims, "... the Flavr Savr passed muster so well that the rigor of its testing will not have to be repeated for other bioengineered foods." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"New viruses and diseases for which there won't be a cure Already, 60 percent of processed foods now contain at least one genetically modified food item. Millions of people now consume chips with the firefly gene, potato chips with a chicken gene, or salsa with tomato containing a flounder gene. Cream of broccoli soup can have a bacteria gene in it, and salad dressing is most likely made with canola oil, vegetable oil or soybean oil (all genetically engineered). The tobacco gene is now used in lettuce and cucumbers and the petunia gene is used in soybeans and carrots." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"How can regulators accept it for a novel genetically modified food?"53 While proclaiming adherence to international standards and legal requirements, regulators regularly ignore them Centre for Integrated "We agree that FSANZ should benchmark with international food safety recommenda-Research in Biosafety tions, but notes that FSANZ has accepted lower standards from submitted studies than recommended by these same bodies at several stages in assessing the safety of [high lysine GM corn LY038] ..." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"The FDA is ready to clear genetically enhanced salmon. genetically modified food is rampant in our food supply. It does not have to be labeled as genetically altered. Now, food manufacturers, in a quest to make more money, are changing the nature of things by genetically manufacturing animals and fish. Eating genetically modified food means we are ingesting more poisons and toxins into our system. 5. Still not convinced that politicians and various government agencies are corrupt, out of control, and operating un-policed?" - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Monbiot also commented on the "deluge of absolutely no coverage at all" with which this unprecedented and momentous ruling against genetically modified food has been greeted." Codex Decision Represents Major Defeat for U.S. Position on rBGH, Professor Says (in his August 18 press release) Karen L. Werner Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), Food and Safety Report August 25,1999 A ruling from the International Codex Alimentarius Commission represents "a powerful blow against" any U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Pusztai and Ermakova and several other scientists have shown that it is not safe. Most genetically modified food is from the major subsidized crops: corn, soy, cotton, and canola. None of these highly subsidized crops are cheap, since shoppers pay for them once at the market and once again at tax time, and since we don't know how much it is going to cost for the cleanup of chemical and genetic farming, we should expect a third payment sometime in the near future. It only seems cheap when one looks at only the purchase price. Besides what corporations dump on U.S." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Pusztai was "largely responsible for the British public's mistrust of genetically modified food" as well as for subsequent governmental actions to regulate, label, or ban genetically modified foods.48 In October 1999, in an act that itself generated a huge outcry, the Lancet published Dr. Pusztai's data as a short research letter. The journal fueled the controversy by including another report in the same issue suggesting that snowdrop lectins interact with human white blood cells in some peculiar way that demands further investigation." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"Lancet editorial William Freese Biotechnology at the Dinner Table Philip Regal "It is astounding that the US Food and Drug Administration has not changed their stance on genetically modified food adopted in 1992. ... The policy is that genetically modified crops will receive the same consideration for potential health risks as any other new crop plant. This stance is taken despite good reasons to believe that specific risks may exist____Governments should never have allowed these products into the food chain without insisting on rigorous testing for effects on health." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Cargill's plan is to force Africans to accept genetically modified food they do not want to eat. Our government is a big sponsor of this genetically altered food, although most of the world does not want to eat it (as explained in Chapter 15). Cargill is now trying to force it into lesser-developed nations. The options for African farmers, essentially, are starvation or working as slave labor for elite agribusiness in their country, similar to how Cargill has decimated family farming in Mexico." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.) "Many of them are saying they would rather die than eat genetically modified food and give up their rights to self-sufficiency. One country in this region, Malawi, was forced to use their stored corn to pay their debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (groups that represent the interests of international bankers). Now they are experiencing famine because their food reserves were taken. In order to get seeds, they need to take out a loan from the IMF or World Bank, using their land as collateral. They can't buy the seeds they want." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"The news anchor added, "So at this point, there is little research into the health effects of genetically modified food. So will we ever know for sure if it's safe?"8 Not with the biotech companies in charge. Consider the following statement in a report submitted to county officials in California, by pro-GM members of a task force. It is: "generally agreed that long-term monitoring of the human health risks of GM food through epidemiological studies is not necessary because there is no scientific evidence suggesting any long-term harm from these foods." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "Michael Pollan "The unspoken challenge here is that if we don't get over our queasiness about eating genetically modified food, kids in the Third World will go blind____Yet the more one learns about biotechnology's Great Yellow Hope, the more uncertain seems its promise—and the industry's command of the moral high ground. Indeed, it remains to be seen whether golden rice will ever offer as much to malnourished children as it does to beleaguered biotech companies. Its real achievement may be to win an argument rather than solve a public-health problem." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Eating genetically modified food means we are ingesting more poisons and toxins into our system. 5. Still not convinced that politicians and various government agencies are corrupt, out of control, and operating un-policed? Then consider this: Did you know that there is a law that allows the government to walk up to you on the street and take away any money you have in your pocket, as well as confiscate any property that they want such as your car and home?" - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Mercola, "More genetically modified food Concerns," www.mercola.com/200 l/jul/7/gm_concerns.htm. 17 Weise, Elizabeth, "EPA Threatens Action Against Biotech Crops," USA Today, August 13, 2002. 18 Ag. Journal, UK, May 30, 2001. 19a J. Mercola, "Dangers of Genetically Altered Foods," www.mercola.com/2001/jul/14/gm foods.htm . 19b www.iatp.org. 19c www.essential.org. 19d www.sustain.org. 19e www.biotech-info.org. 19f www, greenpeaceusa. org/ge/. 20 www.i-sis.org, Dr. Mae Wan-Ho, December 2001. 21 www.worldwidehealthcenter.net/article7.htm." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"We do not know what the GMO phytoestrogens contained in soy will do when they interact with human breast tissue. Would you like to be part of the experiment? If so, eat soy. The most common legumes of Mediterranean people are lentils, chickpeas, and white beans. Scandinavians eat more brown beans and peas. Japanese enjoy soy in the form of tofu, natto, and miso. Research now shows that in elderly individuals, for every 80 calories of legumes they have in their daily diet, they reduce their risk of premature death by seven to eight percent." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"By mid-2001, the FDA had accomplished 52 consultations on these and other genetically modified food plants, meaning that they could now be marketed.45 The first of these consultations began in 1991 and concluded in 1994. Because it established the precedent for approval of subsequent foods, we now examine the politics of Calgene's delayed ripening tomato, the "Flavr Savr," and the fate of transgenic tomatoes in the United States and Great Britain. The Politics of Transgenic Tomatoes, Labeled To biotechnology companies looking for commercially viable projects, tomatoes are a good investment." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) "By 2001, Maryland was the only state to ban a genetically modified food, in this case fish in waterways that connect to other bodies of water.55 Consumer groups, chefs, and some scientists have filed lawsuits and organized petition campaigns to compel the FDA to institute labeling and safety testing. The Alliance for Bio-Integrity (Iowa City, IA), led by Steven Druker, has filed such suits." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"By 2005, eighty-three Vermont communities had voted against growing GMOs in their towns and three California counties legislatively banned the growth of genetically modified seed. With the international and national consumer backlash that continues to build against genetically manipulated crops, Len Richardson's "bullet to the future" could turn out to be another in a long series of "bullets to bankruptcy" that advertising-driven farm magazines have sold to farmers. What are the long-term effects of this excessive dedication to genetic manipulation?" - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Nottingham, Eat Your Genes: How genetically modified food is Entering our Diet, Zed Books, 1998 A. Rowell, Don't Worry It's Safe to Eat: The True Story of GM Food, BSE and Foot and Mouth, Earthscan, 2004 Ardai Pusztai, Report of the Project Co-Ordinator on Data Produced at the Rowett Research Institute (Scottish Office, Agriculture, Environment 8c Fisheries Department (SOAEFD), Flexible Fund project RO 818, October 22, 1998. Online: www.rri.sari.ac.uk J. Rifkin, The Biotech Century, Tarcher Putnam, 1999 W. Roberts et al, Real Food for a Change, Random, 1999 V." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"Never before in human evolution has humankind eaten a genetically modified food. Only in recent years have we developed the technologies that allow us to create these foods. Now genetic technologies are being developed and deployed rapidly, with few controls and almost no consideration for long-term consequences. Most of the food in your supermarket already contains genetically modified components. Yet there is insufficient research, particularly long-term research, to establish the safety of genetically modified foods and, indeed, ample reason to believe they may not be safe." - Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It (Get the book.)

"But major problems also arose: acid rain, environmental toxins, the Bhopal chemical disaster, nuclear waste, global warming, the ozone hole, fears over genetically modified food and the fiery destruction of two space shuttles. Such troubles have helped feed social disenchantment with science. When the cold war ended, the physical sciences began to lose luster and funding. After spending $2 billion, Congress killed physicists' preeminent endeavor, the enormous Superconducting Super Collider particle accelerator." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"International concerns also dominate discussions of food biotechnology, as countries throughout the world grapple with decisions about whether to accept genetically modified food crops produced in the United States. In part z, we will see that the debates over such foods depend to some extent on safety considerations but relate even more to societal implications." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

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