by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | The prospect of genetically modified salmon that can grow six times as fast as than normal fish has heightened anxiety that these gmo fish will escape and pose an even greater danger to native species than do the Atlantic salmon.
Please also see page 530 for other safety concerns.
Red Snapper
There are about 185 species of snapper worldwide, all of which belong to the Lutjanidae family of fish. Red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) is a firm, white-meat deep-saltwater fish characterized by a red-and-pink upper body and silvery whitish skin below. |
Byron J. Richards
See book keywords and concepts |  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. | | The FDA purposely does not require labeling of gmo food, since no one who understands the issue would ever purchase it. This makes it all the more difficult to locate healthful food.
In the fast-food livestock industry, animals live under inhumane conditions and require constant antibiotics to keep their diseases under control. They are fed synthetic growth hormone to rapidly increase their size. Unhealthy animals hold fluid due to inflammation, making them weigh more than healthier animals. Many livestock animals never get exercise, ensuring they will be fatter (profit is by weight). |
Marion Nestle
See book keywords and concepts |  Regulatory bodies were supposed to monitor and oversee gmo releases to ensure they were complying with the legal frameworks. But the reality shows a completely different picture."33
Nowhere is the reality more starkly displayed than in the case of transgenic "pollution" of native maize grown in Mexico, where corn originated and where corn biodiversity is treasured. | | GMO opponents regard 'Golden Rice' as a 'Trojan Horse.'. . . By their singular logic, the success of 'Golden Rice' has to be prevented under all circumstances, irrespective of the damage to those for whose interest Greenpeace pretends to act."24 Dr. Potrykus is correct in his assessment of the motivations of Greenpeace. From that organization's standpoint, Golden Rice obscures fundamental issues of societal values—in this case, poverty and control over resources—and is a techno-fix imposed by corporations and scientists without consulting recipients about whether they want it or not. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
See book keywords and concepts |  We are striving to be gmo [genetically modified organisms] free?that will be an ongoing process. We serve no beef. Our best-seller is a sloppy joe and it is made with a soy mixture. By the time the next store is open we will have printed nutritional labels to put on every item. We have them now in a book at the restaurant. We want to be known as the place that is truly healthy and not healthier seeming.32
This represents striking progress and is a distinct change from most foods available in restaurants. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  Although gene-spliced plants like soy, corn, cotton, and canola were nonexistent twenty years ago, by 2002 they constituted the vast majority of the 145 million acres of GM crops planted in the four major gmo producing nations. That would cover nearly two and a half times the size of the United Kingdom, not counting all the non-GM fields that have been cross-pollinated by GM varieties. Milk in the U.S. has likewise been altered through the use of a genetically modified growth hormone injected into cows. | | The Institute blocked the team's computers and confiscated all research notes, data, and everything related to the gmo experiments. The research was immediately stopped and the team dismantied.
"This was such an abrupt change in his attitude," says Pusztai. "We part company before five o'clock in the afternoon on Tuesday and on Wednesday morning out of the blue I was suspended. This was coming from someone who for two days was milking every ounce of the PR effort, which appeared at the time to be beneficial for him and for the Institute. | | They knew the FDA was determined to maintain control of gmo policy, and that the agency did not want Congress to step in to draft new laws. Rather, the FDA was developing its own pro-industry policy based on food laws written prior to genetic engineering. The observers waited . . . and waited . . . and waited. Nothing. There was not a single mention of genetic engineering in Archer's testimony.
Certainly Archer knew about the genetically engineered bacteria. | | Rotten Tomatoes
While the FDA was busily crafting their industry-friendly gmo policy in the early 1990s, Calgene was preparing to introduce the world's first genetically modified food crop: the FlavrSavr Tomato. Gifted with mythical endurance, this GM wonder could remain looking fresh for weeks after being picked.
Although the FDA did not require it, Calgene voluntarily did three feeding studies with rats and sent the results to the FDA for its blessing. Internal FDA documents show that the agency scientists were concerned about the presence of stomach lesions. | | GMO controversy, but he had just the story to change that. He had discovered that the GM policy of the FDA was against the law.
Druker, a public interest attorney, had read the laws over and over again and he was sure that the FDA had broken several. His organization, Alliance for Biointegrity, along with the International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) in Washington, D.C., spearheaded a lawsuit to rein in the pro-biotech agency and force them to test GM foods and to label them. The suit had two lines of attack: religious and scientific. | | 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. When revelations of the events in Washington were made public by Lambrecht in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Irish group Genetic Concern charged in a press release, "U.S. multinationals have more influence than the Irish electorate."54
Moderate Dissent among the Ranks
Former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman had been one of the Clinton administration's staunchest defenders of biotech, touring Europe with industry representatives to promote GM foods. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  For resources on which food products may contain gmo ingredients, check the Greenpeace website at www.greenpeace.org.uk.
Clean Your Air
Airborne exposures include far more than the usual dust, pollen, and molds. A major source is indoor air pollution—according to the EPA, indoor air pollution levels are often two to five times (and occasionally as much as one hundred times) higher than outdoor air pollution. |
Rebecca Wood
See book keywords and concepts |  Some high oleic oils, however, are derived from hybrid, rather than gmo, seeds. Examine the oil label for the manufacturer's stand on gmo material.
• Refined To increase an oil's shelf life, its color, flavor, and aroma are removed through a multistepped, hightech refining process that uses toxic solvents, caustic soda, bleaches, and phosphoric acid. In addition, supermarket oils typically contain synthetic antioxidants and chemical defoamers. Sometimes these oils bear a health food label. Buyer beware. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  This was back in '94, and I started reading scientific journal articles about gmo milk. I started investigating, calling Monsanto and speaking with their scientists. One day it hit me -- after doing a week, a month, a year of investigations, it hit me -- it's milk, stupid! Cow's milk, every sip of cow's milk has virus in it; and pus and bacteria, powerful growth hormones, proteins that cause allergies, antibiotics, pesticides, fat cholesterol and dioxin -- now, which one of these things do you want in your body? |
Peter Pringle
See book keywords and concepts |  Greenpeace admitted that the cause of the rats' maladies was still unclear but nevertheless called for "an immediate total ban on gmo food," and an end to "using millions of people as guinea pigs."28 Without waiting for further evidence, Greenpeace stated, "For all we know, they [the maladies] might have been caused by the virus used to transfer the alien DNA to the potatoes." It continued, "This is the same virus used in Monsanto's Roundup Ready soy that is available in markets around the world." The author was Benedikt Harlin, then Greenpeace's genetic engineering coordinator. | | Protesters shouting "No, no, to GMO" rioted in Seattle in December 1999. Food companies took fright. Heinz and Gerber removed GM ingredients from baby food. Europe and Japan suspended reviews of Bt corn. Japanese brewers said they would not use GM grain in their beer.
Scientists who had been involved in biotech research from the beginning, and who worried that companies like Monsanto had skipped too easily through the regulatory hoop, were quietly pleased to see the antibiotech forces creating such a fuss. More research was needed, they knew. |
Earl Mindell and Hester Mundis
See book keywords and concepts |  According to Greenpeace's True Food Network's gmo facts (www.true-foodnow.org) at the time of this writing, these are some of the companies that do not me genetically modified ingredients.
Freshlike
COMMENTS AND CAUTIONS Shop organic, minimize your intake of processed foods, and reduce visits to fast-food restaurants. When in doubt, contact the manufacturer and ask for confirmation that its product contains no genetically modified ingredients, or ingredients derived from GMOs.
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Jeremy P. Tarcher
See book keywords and concepts |  Today, they're planted on 75 million acres, with more than half our soybeans and almost three-fourths of our cotton crops now gmo.9 Walking down our grocery aisles, we can assume that more than half the products we see contain at least a trace of them.
Id been increasingly concerned with this stunningly rapid agricultural revolution—one that has been largely invisible, especially for us Americans. So I am hoping I can learn something. | | Despite the company's efforts to avoid it, gmo corn kept turning up. We're all affected, whether we like it or not.
The standardized approach to growing and eating that McDonald's represents to Jose is "totalizing" in another way as well. It "de-links" us from the specifics of who we are—our specific spot of earth, people, climate, culture, history—that make us different from any other.
But not everyone values that peculiarity of place shaping who we are. | | Following the Starlink debacle—when the nonprofit Friends of the Earth discovered that gmo corn deemed unfit for humans had crossed into our food— the offending company, Aventis, fired key executives and began negotiations to sell its agrochemical business.
W. R. Grace—remember the attempted co-patenter of neem we heard about in New Delhi?—had to file for bankruptcy in 2001 after spending almost $2 billion against hundreds of personal-injury lawsuits related to asbestos. | | The group's gmo campaign now uses a quarter of the group's budget, second only to its antinuclear efforts.
Welcoming us into his small office, Bruno Rebelle, forty-two, the understated head of Greenpeace France (who has, I think with a smile, the perfect name for the job) is surprisingly relaxed despite the interruption of ringing phones and the fact that it's the end of his long day.
Thinking we're making small talk before getting into the real reason we're here, we ask Bruno why he came to Greenpeace. |
John Robbins
See book keywords and concepts |  In 1999, the seven largest grocery chains in six European countries (Tesco, Safeway, Sainsbury's, Iceland, Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, and Waitrose) made a public commitment to go "GMO (genetically modified organisms) free" and began contracting with growers to provide GM-free corn, potatoes, soybeans, and wheat. Like dominoes falling, other food companies followed. |
Rebecca Wood
See book keywords and concepts | | Examine the oil label for the manufacturer's stand on gmo material.
• Refined To increase an oil's shelf life, its color, flavor, and aroma are removed through a multistepped, hightech refining process that uses toxic solvents, caustic soda, bleaches, and phosphoric acid. In addition, supermarket oils typically contain synthetic antioxidants and chemical defoamers. Sometimes these oils bear a health food label. Buyer beware.
• Solvent extracted or cold processed Mashed seeds are bathed in a petroleum solvent to separate the oil from the meal. |
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