‘N-O’ to G-M-O

A recent posting of mine delved into the soy issue, how it was so good for women, yet not so good for men.

My ultimate conclusion was that the heart of the soy dilemma boiled down to the kind of soy being eaten, as most of the soy found on the market today is of the genetically modified variety (though it’s impossible to know how much of our food is genetically modified, which I’ll discuss later).

What I didn’t delve into – and what may be unclear to many of you – is why genetically modified products are so harmful.  Well, a recent warning issued by the American Academy of Environmental Medicine should clarify the issue.

For simplicity’s sake, “genetically-modified” refers to the way in which a food was grown at its inception, as the production involved tampering with its DNA.

The reason you don’t hear about the harm of genetically modified organisms’ danger to our health is because the Food and Drug Administration is AWOL on the issue (though many in the FDA were avowedly against the consumption of GMOs in the 1990s).  And if the FDA doesn’t much care about it, you’re not going to hear about it in the traditional media market.  For whatever reason, they have a monopoly on what’s considered healthy and unhealthy.

Yet over 600 reputable studies have investigated genetically modified products (for simplicity’s sake “genetically-modified” refers to the way in which the food was grown at its inception, which is to say in an unnatural way, as the production involved tampering with its DNA) and each of them have come back with data suggestive of how destructive they are to a variety of health matters, including infertility, compromising of the immune system, expedited aging, throwing insulin regulation out of balance, and disruption of the digestive system.
A battery of tests has been performed on mice involving GMOs, most of them coming back with seriously adverse reactions, such as infertility and birth complications.  And these issues haven’t been relegated to mice.  Over two dozen pig farmers have reported health problems with their pigs, also in the infertility realm, and bison that graze on cotton in India wound up dead after consuming cotton plants that contain Bt – a protein found in genetically modified organisms.

And trust me, there’s much more where that came from.  There’s an entire movie devoted to GMOs adverse reaction to health in the film Poison on the Platter.

While there isn’t a whole bunch of evidence that make a causal connection to human illness at this point, GMOs negative impact on animals is beyond question.  But David Schubert of the Salk Institute believes the link is already there, even though it may not be clear-cut at this point.  He says that children are most at risk for developing illnesses when consuming GMOs, as they can present themselves in a variety of ways that many may not link to GMOs initially, but are likely related.

John Boyles, an Ohio allergist, feels the same way, and he believes no human should eat GMOs.  He, too, believes their effects can present themselves in the development of allergies.

The reason there hasn’t been a causal link made between the development of allergies and consumption of GMOs is because there really isn’t any reliable test to measure it.  And since there’s no mandate for food companies to package their foods with information on whether their product contains GMOs, it’s hard to pinpoint what foods are to blame.

The likelihood of Congress ever mandating food companies specify GMO use is nil (not until more people start writing their congressmen on the issue, anyway).  Thus, as you should be already, consume organic produce and snacks that explicitly state “no GMOs used” on the packaging, or list “non-GMO” ingredients in the ingredients.  Genisoy is a great snack company that does this.  They have a great line of soy chips, crisps, nutrition bars, and protein powders that are great for you and great tasting as well!

Sources
naturalnews.com
actionbioscience.org
genisoy.com