A MUST READ!! A Moratorium on Genetically Manipulated (GMO) Foods

[oldpaganfreak]

A Moratorium on Genetically Manipulated (GMO) Foods


By F. William Engdahl

URL of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=13701

Global Research, May 22, 2009



US Association of Physicians calls for Moratorium on GMO Foods



The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has just issued a call for an immediate moratorium on Genetically Manipulated (GMO) Foods.

In a just-released position paper on GMO foods, the AAEM states that ‘GM foods pose a serious health risk' and calls for a moratorium on GMO foods. Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes ‘there is more than a casual association between GMO foods and adverse health effects' and that ‘GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health.' The report is a devastating blow to the multibillion dollar international agribusiness industry, most especially to Monsanto Corporation, the world's leading purveyor of GMO seeds and related herbicides.



In a press release dated May 19, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, which describes itself as ‘an international association of physicians and other professionals dedicated to addressing the clinical aspects of environmental health,' called immediately for the following emergency measures to be taken regarding human consumption of GMO foods:



* A moratorium on GMO food; implementation of immediate long term safety testing and labelling of GMO food.

* Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community and the public to avoid GMO foods.

* Physicians to consider the role of GMO foods in their patients' disease processes.

* More independent long term scientific studies to begin gathering data to investigate the role of GMO foods on human health.



The AAEM chairperson, Dr Amy Dean notes that ‘Multiple animal studies have shown that GM foods cause damage to various organ systems in the body. With this mounting evidence, it is imperative to have a moratorium on GM foods for the safety of our patients' and the public's health.' The President of the AAEM, Dr Jennifer Armstrong stressed that ‘Physicians are probably seeing the effects in their patients, but need to know how to ask the right questions. The most common foods in North America which are consumed that are GMO are corn, soy, canola, and cottonseed oil.' The AAEM's position paper on Genetically Modified foods can be found at http:aaemonline.org.



The paper further states that Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) technology ‘abrogates natural reproductive processes, selection occurs at the single cell level, the procedure is highly mutagenic and routinely breeches genera barriers, and the technique has only been used commercially for 10 years.'

The AAEM paper further states, ‘several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food consumption including infertility, immune dysregulation, accelerated aging, dysregulation of genes associated with cholesterol synthesis, insulin regulation, cell signalling, and protein formation, and changes in the liver, kidney, spleen and gastrointestinal system.'

They add, ‘There is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects. There is causation as defined by Hill's Criteria in the areas of strength of association, consistency, specificity, biological gradient, and biological plausibility. The strength of association and consistency between GM foods and disease is confirmed in several animal studies.'



GMO is toxic

The AAEM paper should give grounds for official rethinking of the current quasi laissez faire regulatory stance to GMO in which the solemn word of the GMO seed companies such as Monsanto is regarded as scientifically valid proof of safety. The AAEM study is worth citing in detail in this regard:

‘Specificity of the association of GM foods and specific disease processes is also supported. Multiple animal studies show significant immune dysregulation, including upregulation of cytokines associated with asthma, allergy, and inflammation. Animal studies also show altered structure and function of the liver, including altered lipid and carbohydrate metabolism as well as cellular changes that could lead to accelerated aging and possibly lead to the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Changes in the kidney, pancreas and spleen have also been documented. A recent 2008 study links GM corn with infertility, showing a significant decrease in offspring over time and significantly lower litter weight in mice fed GM corn. This study also found that over 400 genes were found to be expressed differently in the mice fed GM corn. These are genes known to control protein synthesis and modification, cell signalling, cholesterol synthesis, and insulin regulation. Studies also show intestinal damage in animals fed GM foods, including proliferative cell growth and disruption of the intestinal immune system. ‘

The AAEM study also reviewed the biotechnology industry claims that GMO foods can feed the world through production of higher crop yields. It cited contrary evidence that the opposite appeared to be true, namely that over time GMO harvest yields were lower than conventional yields and required over time, more not less, highly toxic herbicidal chemicals such as glyphosate. The report noted, ‘The several thousand field trials over the last 20 years for genes aimed at increasing operational or intrinsic yield (of crops) indicate a significant undertaking. Yet none of these field trials have resulted in increased yield in commercialized major food/feed crops, with the exception of Bt corn.' However, the slight yield gain for Bt corn they report was ‘largely due to traditional breeding improvements,' and not to GMO.

They conclude that because GMO foods ‘pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health and are without benefit, the AAEM believes that it is imperative to adopt the precautionary principle, which is one of the main regulatory tools of the European Union environmental and health policy and serves as a foundation for several international agreements. The most commonly used definition is from the 1992 Rio Declaration that states: ‘In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.'

Under intense public pressure, the German Minister of Agriculture recently issued a prohibition of planting for Monsanto MON810 GMO corn. Unfortunately, two weeks later she permitted planting of GMO potato seeds. Amflora, a genetically modified potato manufactured by chemicals giant BASF (a joint venture GMO partner of Monsanto), was declared by the German Ministry as posing ‘no danger for human health or the environment,' The Ministry cited ‘in-depth examination' and talks with scientific and economic experts as basis for the reckless decision.

The publication of the sensational critique of GMO by the American Academy of Environmental Medicine has been greeted with stone silence by most major US media and international press.



GMO politics



As I describe in great detail in my book, Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, , GMO was released on the general public in the early 1990's in the USA under an executive decision by then President George Herbert Walker Bush, reportedly following closed door meetings with leading Monsanto executives. President Bush mandated that there should be no special health and safety tests done by any US Government agency before releasing GMO for food consumption. It came to be known as the Doctrine of Substantial Equivalence.



The US Government, on urging of Monsanto and the GMO lobby, further decided that labelling of a food product as ‘GMO free' should be prohibited, using the vaguely formulated and entirely unscientific ‘doctrine' proclaimed by President Bush in 1992, namely that GMO plants and non-GMO or ordinary plants were ‘substantially equivalent' and hence needed no special testing before being released to the public.



That Substantial Equivalence Doctrine, despite the fact that it directly contradicts the demand of the GMO companies for exclusive patent rights to their GMO seeds as being ‘unique' and different from ordinary seeds, enabled Monsanto, Dow Chemicals, DuPont and other GMO patent holders to proliferate their products with no control. Most Americans naively believe that the Government Food and Drug Administration and US Department of Agriculture are there to make certain industrial food products are confirmed fully safe for human and for animal consumption before licensing.



That de facto prohibition on labelling GMO foods has meant that most Americans have no idea how much of their daily diet from store-bought Corn Flakes to soybeans to corn and additives in every food on the supermarket shelf contained GMO contamination.



Coincident with the mass introduction of GMO into the human and animal diet in the United States beginning the end of the 1990's, there have been reported epidemic levels of allergic outbreaks in humans, strange diseases and numerous other health issues. The fact it is forbidden by Federal law to label GMO products means most health professionals are not even aware there might be any connection to a GMO diet for millions of Americans. The US population, since the 1992 ruling of President Bush—a ruling reaffirmed by presidents Clinton, George W. Bush and now by Barack Obama and his pro-GMO Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack—has been in effect treated as human guinea pigs in mass experimentation for substances never independently proven in long-term (ten years or longer) studies to be safe.



It remains to be seen if the scientific critique of the AAEM is given the attention it warrants.





F. William Engdahl is author of Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation (www.globalresearch.ca). He also authored A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order (Pluto Press). His newest book, Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order (Third Millennium Press) is now in print and will be available by mid-June. He may be contacted over his website, www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net.




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Seeds of Destruction


The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation

by F. William Engdahl

Global Research, 2007 ISBN 978-0-937147-2-2


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This skillfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish control over the very basis of human survival: the provision of our daily bread. "Control the food and you control the people."

This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO. Engdahl takes the reader inside the corridors of power, into the backrooms of the science labs, behind closed doors in the corporate boardrooms.

The author cogently reveals a diabolical World of profit-driven political intrigue, government corruption and coercion, where genetic manipulation and the patenting of life forms are used to gain worldwide control over food production. If the book often reads as a crime story, that should come as no surprise. For that is what it is.

Engdahl's carefully argued critique goes far beyond the familiar controversies surrounding the practice of genetic modification as a scientific technique. The book is an eye-opener, a must-read for all those committed to the causes of social justice and World peace.



What is so frightening about Engdahl's vision of the world is that it is so real. Although our civilization has been built on humanistic ideals, in this new age of "free markets", everything-- science, commerce, agriculture and even seeds-- have become weapons in the hands of a few global corporation barons and their political fellow travelers. To achieve world domination, they no longer rely on bayonet-wielding soldiers. All they need is to control food production. (Dr. Arpad Pusztai, biochemist, formerly of the Rowett Research Institute Institute, Scotland)

If you want to learn about the socio-political agenda --why biotech corporations insist on spreading GMO seeds around the World-- you should read this carefully researched book. You will learn how these corporations want to achieve control over all mankind, and why we must resist... (Marijan Jost, Professor of Genetics, Krizevci, Croatia)

The book reads like a murder mystery of an incredible dimension, in which four giant Anglo-American agribusiness conglomerates have no hesitation to use GMO to gain control over our very means of subsistence... (Anton Moser, Professor of Biotechnology, Graz, Austria).

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[Carmen]

Havent read all of this yet pagan but its great stuff and about time. So much negative outcomes of Gm testing have been suppressed.

[Phtha]

Great, could this be the end of monsanto? (moonsaturn)
It will certainly help direct some of humanities attention/energy back towards Earth a little more if that happens.

[Lorien]

It's about time people(doctors et. all) tried to put an end to GMO's. We should spread this to everyone and tell people to write their representatives and voice our agreements with this.

[giovonni]

Excellent Post
Its about time the medical community spoke up




From sept. 2007

"In the US and Canada, however, it is estimated that over 70 percent of the foods in grocery stores in the U.S. and Canada contain genetically engineered ingredients mostly in the form of corn and soy products. Most Americans, even those who shop at “health food” stores, end up consuming GM foods without ever realizing it."
quoted from here;
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog...eat-genet.html

[Carmen]

Dr Arden Anderson, a very enlightened soil scientist, doctor and speaker, decided to give up being vegetarian as soy products are the most GM crop in the world today. It seems as though all soy is GM. No GM products are safe.

[Wizend]

Originally Posted by Carmen

Dr Arden Anderson, a very enlightened soil scientist, doctor and speaker, decided to give up being vegetarian as soy products are the most GM crop in the world today. It seems as though all soy is GM. No GM products are safe.

I had no clue about soy products Carmen. Thank you for that info.

[Phtha]

Originally Posted by Carmen

Dr Arden Anderson, a very enlightened soil scientist, doctor and speaker, decided to give up being vegetarian as soy products are the most GM crop in the world today. It seems as though all soy is GM. No GM products are safe.

I don't understand.. I'm a veggy and I eat no soy..., I haven't for years. Where is the connection to soy and giving up being a veggy?
And being 'enlightened' and a meat eater is an impossibility. No offense but it's true.

[Carmen]

Dr Arden Anderson was a vegetarian and obviously must have based his diet on soy products. I have no comment particularly about this, just repeating what this man talked about. He is very clued up on nutrition and food in general.

[waitinginthewings]

Originally Posted by Phtha

I don't understand.. I'm a veggy and I eat no soy..., I haven't for years. Where is the connection to soy and giving up being a veggy?
And being 'enlightened' and a meat eater is an impossibility. No offense but it's true.
YouTube - JESUS: "LET NO FLESH MEAT ENTER YOUR MOUTHS" (Lect. 38, GHT)

Vegetarians eat tofu (made from soy) deserts made from soy, soy milk, soy protein powder. Soy is now put into regular grocery store products. As a vegetarian, I am constantly on the look out for soy and wheat in the foods I eat. Its a minefield in the food industry. Canada does not label their foods genetically altered, despite all the petitions asking for this. Most people when shopping do not read labels, & are not even aware of GM foods.

Did you know that organic fruits have 5 digits on the label that is stuck on the fruits. Non-organic fruits have 4 digits.

[waitinginthewings]

Originally Posted by Phtha

I don't understand.. I'm a veggy and I eat no soy..., I haven't for years. Where is the connection to soy and giving up being a veggy?
And being 'enlightened' and a meat eater is an impossibility. No offense but it's true.
YouTube - JESUS: "LET NO FLESH MEAT ENTER YOUR MOUTHS" (Lect. 38, GHT)

Vegetarians eat tofu (made from soy) deserts made from soy, soy milk, soy protein powder. Soy is now put into regular grocery store products. As a vegetarian, I am constantly on the look out for soy and wheat in the foods I eat. Its a minefield in the food industry. Canada does not label their foods genetically altered, despite all the petitions asking for this. Most people when shopping do not read labels, & are not even aware of GM foods.

Did you know that organic fruits have 5 digits on the label that is stuck on the fruits. Non-organic fruits have 4 digits.

Sorry....I duplicated post.....delete this mods. Tks

[waitinginthewings]

I am curious about something that just occured to me after reading the biblical commandments listed here in the posts. I make homemade dog food using raw ground beef.....am I breaking a commandment because I am handling raw meat, even though I did not kill an animal, but indirectly I am contributing to the suffering of the animal

But I have to feed the dog, & a raw food diet is best for them....what a dilema

[Phtha]

Originally Posted by Carmen

Dr Arden Anderson was a vegetarian and obviously must have based his diet on soy products. I have no comment particularly about this, just repeating what this man talked about. He is very clued up on nutrition and food in general.

I would say very clued up with the established medical school ways of thought. Here is proof. I just read this earlier this morning from a book called "Living Foods for Optimum Health." I was going to type this out for my email list so here goes:

1. Foods without enzymes (Like cooked vegetables, white bread, pizza, cakes, eggs, milk, meat, fish, and chicken) enter the digestive system, but can not be fully broken down for absorption of nutrients.

2. Without fiber to sweep the remaining toxic waste through the colon, these foods sit in the large intestine. As the colon wall absorbs more and more water, the stools become hard and difficult to eliminate.

3. While sitting int he digestive track, fat turns to rancid, carbohydrates ferment, and protein foods putrify. This throws poisons back into the body, causing gas, constipation, halitosis, heartburn, headache, eye troubles, and many other serious condistions.

4. The colon wall begins to absorb the toxins and releases them into the bloodstream as free radicals, or unstable, destructive electrons, that then roam the body seeking healthy cells to invade.

5. As the colon backs up and becomes clogged, the blood can't deposit the waste it picked up from the bodies cells. Now overloaded with debris, it can't take on any more from the cells. Soon the cells, burdened by their own waste, mutate, and become open to disease.

6. Even after a bowel movement, some of the undigested food begins to collect on the walls of the large intestine and disrupts the vital digestive processes of absorption and elimination.

7. Toxic waste pervades the colon because the lactobacillus bacteria that would normally clean up the remains has been destroyed. The antibiotics we consume to fight infection, along with the antibiotic-laden dairy products and meat products we eat, kill the healthy bacteria needed to keep the colon healthy.

8. Eventually, the lack of healthy bacteria, combined with the stress from enzyme and fiber deficiency, can cause the colon to lose its strengh, shape, and ability to function properly, leaving us wide open for many diseases.

What this shows is that the human colon was never meant to handle the digestion of today's typical diet. The biological evidence shows that humans are herbivorous beings.

Animals who instinctively eat meat have a digestive system to handle the job. The jaw joints of these animals an up and down vertical hinge, and there teeth are overlapping, sheering fangs made for tearing flesh, and they also have claws.
By contrast, herbivores such as horses and humans have a sliding jaw joint and flat, grinding back molars that allow them to chew in a rotary motion for grinding grains and greens.

The stomach acid of of carnivorous animals is twenty times that of herbivores because the digestion of flesh requires a lot of acid. If a herbivore (like you or me) eats flesh, the body must drastically increase its acid production, which upsets natural pH balance necessary to maintain health. Carnivorous animals have colons that are constructed to guarantee quick elimination. The bowel of a carnivore is smooth and it takes waste through a relatively short, straight route of elimination.

The bowels of humans, in contrast, is full of pouches and indentations. It follows a long and windy path full of sharp turns. Fatty, processed, and cooked foods cannot pass through this route easily or quickly. (only living foods, full of digestive enzymes and fiber can move quickly through this maze.) The end result of today's average diet is a grim but indisputable statistic: The greater the intake of cooked and processed foods and animal products, the greater the occurrence of disease.


great book btw!

[Carmen]

Dont want to get into an arguement, but you are totally wrong about Dr Arden Anderson. He would be one of the most enlightened doctors in America and people come from all over the world to be treated by him. Go google his name and find out for yourself.

[Phtha]

Originally Posted by waitinginthewings

I am curious about something that just occured to me after reading the biblical commandments listed here in the posts. I make homemade dog food using raw ground beef.....am I breaking a commandment because I am handling raw meat, even though I did not kill an animal, but indirectly I am contributing to the suffering of the animal

But I have to feed the dog, & a raw food diet is best for them....what a dilema

I dunno about dogs, but I do know that for cats you can by vegetarian food. It's hard to find. I've switched my cat on it, she didn't eat for a few days at first. But now shes loving it. And i notice her enegry improve quite drastically. Shes old, but I think she lost a few years now.

Goto your local pet food store and see if something like that exists for dogs. I'm sure it does.

[Phtha]

Originally Posted by Carmen

Dont want to get into an arguement, but you are totally wrong about Dr Arden Anderson. He would be one of the most enlightened doctors in America and people come from all over the world to be treated by him. Go google his name and find out for yourself.

Arguing is another positive thing that has been given a negative overtone in our backwards society. Many things are gleened from a healthy argument. But i think our human anatomy and the amount of diseases caused by eating flesh disagree with the good Dr. And of course the fact that we take life when its not needed.
Btw i did google him after your first post. He says some nice things for sure. He is a lttile confused about meat though. Please read my reply with the 6+ points.

[Carmen]

Growing one's own food from organic or saved seeds is the only way to ensure that you are eating safe foods, not frankengene foods.

I would really like to explore the subject of vegetarianism and meat eating but I think that people's opinions are probably too polarised on this subject. I am not vegetarian and do not consider that my spiritual developement has been stymied by not being veggy. I have friends who are vegetarian for a variety of reasons. Some of them are extremely healthy and others look like they could do with a decent steak!!! I find that my diet has changed over the years and what suits me at the moment could be best described as a basic stoneage diet. Fruit, nuts, vegetables, eggs, dairy and some meat. Bread I seem to be allergic to also rice.

I think that at some point in my life my diet will change again and maybe my body will not require any meat. Diet to me is an individual affair. I have learned to avoid processed foods and sprayed fruit and veg. Diet to me is like celibacy, it should never be forced. Your body indicates what it needs.

Cheers

Carmen

[Phtha]

Originally Posted by Carmen

Growing one's own food from organic or saved seeds is the only way to ensure that you are eating safe foods, not frankengene foods.

Carmen

Definitely! And also growing your foods with love makes them much better for you, as poeple like Emoto have proved. Its impossible to buy foods as good as the ones you grow for yourself. And the fact that they are not imported from some other environment. Growing and eating locally ensures the foods have what is needed for living in your area.

Did you know that the reason the modified tomatoes last longer now is because they mixed the dna of tomatoes with human genes.
So guess what you are eating now?

And how about those red delicious apples. They were modified to have 20x the glucose of regular apples.

[waitinginthewings]

Originally Posted by Phtha

I dunno about dogs, but I do know that for cats you can by vegetarian food. It's hard to find. I've switched my cat on it, she didn't eat for a few days at first. But now shes loving it. And i notice her enegry improve quite drastically. Shes old, but I think she lost a few years now.

Goto your local pet food store and see if something like that exists for dogs. I'm sure it does.

I don't know about cats, but my Vet. who is a holistic vet, strongly recommends a natural raw food diet for dogs. She is against vaccines also, which I am greatful for. She does a titer test every 2yrs to make sure they are in the safe zone.

Phtha: does your cat food have any protein in it, & if so what type of protein is it. My dog food consists of 2/3 meat & the rest is a mixture of veggies and herbs + olive oil & salmon oil. My little dog is better fed than I am.

[burgundia]

One can feed a dog a vegetarian diet but with cats there may be a problem. A cat's body doesn't produce taurine; a cat gets it from meat. Dogs, like humans, are able to produce taurine in their bodies. Howeve nowadays they probably have vegetarian cat food with taurine added to it.

[Phtha]

Originally Posted by waitinginthewings

Phtha: does your cat food have any protein in it, & if so what type of protein is it. My dog food consists of 2/3 meat & the rest is a mixture of veggies and herbs + olive oil & salmon oil. My little dog is better fed than I am.

My bad, I just checked the cat food bag, it says 'no animal by-products'. I swore it said no animals before.
It has meat. Just a holistic source. Much better then what I normally fed her. It does have added taurine as well, thanks for that info.

As for protein, I can't speak for dogs but for humans we have been lied too in this case as well. Lots of info in the book I mentioned above on the protien lies, but here is another breafing I've had bookmarked.
http://www.thenazareneway.com/diet/the_protein_myth.htm

[Carmen]

Did you know that nutritionally dense fruit and vegetable is not and cannot be eaten by insects. An insects digestive system cannot handle good quality fruit and veg. Also nutritionally dense fruit and veg does not rot when kept, it dehydrates. It also lasts fresh a lot longer than poor quality fruit and veg.

Insects and disease are the garbage disposal units of poor quality fruit and veg. The books and lectures of Dr Phil Callahan explains the insects eating behaviour very well. Dr Arden Anderson (among other enlightened soil scientists) also shows how to garden and farm in a biologically correct way to ensure healthy crops and animals. This is mixing old methods with modern science and is way ahead of ordinary organics.