Hi All,

California has an initiative on the ballot this November to force Big Agra to label genetically modified foods.

For those of you who aren't aware, Big Agra, Big Chemical and Big Bio have all combined to primarily achieve two results...

1. Engineer "food" so that the food itself is the pesticide.

2. Engineer "food" so that it is resistant to pesticide and can be saturated with pesticide.

3. Fight tooth and nail to PREVENT human testing of the health of these activities.

The tests that have been done on mammals show wicked negative health effects... 50%+ sterilization after the third generation, color changes in male reproductive organs (light pink to dark purple), significantly higher infant mortality, significantly lower birth weights and even hair growing in the mouths several generations out.

If you reside in CA, or know anyone who does, please make every effort to "get the word out" and have people vote to label GMO pesticide facsimile "foods."

All we want is to know what we choose to feed our families - and then the market can determine where society goes from there.

"If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it." - Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994

Why isn’t the FDA protecting us?

The Food and Drug Administration policy on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), released in 1992, falsely claims that the agency had no information showing that GM foods are substantially different. Thousands of secret memos later made public by a lawsuit reveal just the opposite. FDA scientists repeatedly warned of possible allergies, toxins, new diseases, and nutritional problems; they urged long-term safety studies. But the FDA official in charge of policy was Michael Taylor, Monsanto’s former attorney, later their vice president, and now the US Food Safety Czar. The FDA ignored their scientists, and doesn’t require a single safety test. Instead, companies such as Monsanto, which have been found guilty of hiding toxic effects of their other products, get to decide if their GMOs are safe for us to eat. And the superficial studies they do conduct are widely criticized as rigged to avoid finding problems.

For more information, visit

[note - pdf file]
http://responsibletechnology.org/docs/145.pdf

http://responsibletechnology.org/health-risks

Jeffrey M. Smith: The GMO Threat (Full Length • HD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPvkZv5MfRw

Scientists Under Attack: Genetic Engineering in the Magnetic Field of Money

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQNLXvyT-b0

FYI: About GMO foods.
BUT Corn is not favorable, I don't think I have had any corn, even fresh grilled corn on the cob in several years.
And if I were, it would be from a local farmer.
And as Zoners, we hardly ever eat processed foods. At least my wife and I never do.
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The first-ever lifetime feeding study1 evaluating the health risks of genetically engineered foods was published online on September 19, and the results are troubling, to say the least. This new study joins a list of over 30 other animal studies showing toxic or allergenic problems with genetically engineered foods.
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The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, found that rats fed a type of genetically engineered corn that is prevalent in the US food supply for two years developed massive mammary tumors, kidney and liver damage, and other serious health problems.
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The research was considered so "hot" that the work was done under strict secrecy. According to a French article in Le Nouvel Observateur,2 the researchers used encrypted emails, phone conversations were banned, and they even launched a decoy study to prevent sabotage!
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According to the authors:
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"The health effects of a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize (from 11% in the diet), cultivated with or without Roundup, and Roundup alone (from 0.1ppb in water), were studied 2 years in rats. [Editors note: this level of Roundup is permitted in drinking water and GE crops in the US]
In females, all treated groups died 2-3 times more than controls, and more rapidly. This difference was visible in 3 male groups fed GMOs.
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All results were hormone and sex dependent, and the pathological profiles were comparable. Females developed large mammary tumors almost always more often than and before controls, the pituitary was the second most disabled organ; the sex hormonal balance was modified by GMO and Roundup treatments.
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In treated males, liver congestions and necrosis were 2.5-5.5 times higher... Marked and severe kidney nephropathies were also generally 1.3-2.3 greater. Males presented 4 times more large palpable tumors than controls, which occurred up to 600 days earlier.
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Biochemistry data confirmed very significant kidney chronic deficiencies; for all treatments and both sexes, 76% of the altered parameters were kidney related. These results can be explained by the non linear endocrine-disrupting effects of Roundup, but also by the overexpression of the transgene in the GMO and its metabolic consequences."
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Folks, if this doesn't get your attention, nothing will.
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Does 10 percent or more of your diet consist of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients? At present, you can't know for sure, since GE foods are not labeled in the US. But chances are, if you eat processed foods, your diet is chock full of genetically engineered ingredients you didn't even know about.