Date:   7/3/2006 1:16:35 AM ( 18 y ago)
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I got this from my local co-op. This is very important information to consider when your buying conventional foods, especially since 70% of the foods in regular grocery stores are genetically modified. TOP TEN REASONS NOT TO EAT GENETICALLY ENGINEERED(GE)FOOD. GE FOOD HAS NOT BEEN PROPERLY TESTED-WE ARE THE TEST SUBJECTS Genetic engineering is a young and in many ways poorly understood technology. With little or no regulatory restraints, labeling requirements or scientific protocol, bio-engineers have begun creating hundreds of new GE foods and crops. The research is done with little concern for human and enviromental hazards and the negative socioeconomic impacts on the world's several billion farmers. GENETIC ENGINEERING MAY CREATE NEW TOXINS HARMFUL TO HUMAN HEALTH In 1989, a GE version of tryptophan, a dietary supplement, produced toxic contaminants. Before it was recalled by the Food and Drug Administration, thirty-seven people died, 1,500 were permanetely disabled and 5,000 became ill with blood disorder, eosinophils myalgia sydrome. GENETIC ENGINEERING CONTAMINATES THE ENVIROMENT Once a genetically engineered seed is released into our enviroment, it cannot be recalled. The genie is out of the bottle so to speak. GE rapeseed oil has cross-pollinated non-GE crops two and a half miles away. And GE corn pollen has been known to travel up to 20 miles, infecting non-GE corn crops in the process. DAMAGE TO THE SOIL One of our most valuable resources is soil and scientists are concerned that GE mutated crops may damage it. Researchers have reported that some types of Ge crops may be leaking powerful toxins into the soil. Many GE crops such as corn or potatoes have been engineered to produce poisons or toxins to fight pests that eat their leaves and stems. Researchers fear that beneficial soil organisms also may be killed, and that some insects may become resistent to the toxins. This fear has been validated by the birth of super bugs and super weeds in our enviroment. These are bugs that have mutated to a point where they are no longer affected by these GE crop toxins. food allergies In 1996 a major food disaster was narrowly averted when Nebraska researchers learned that a Brazil nut gene spliced into soybeans could induce potentially fatal allergies in people sensitive to Brazil nuts. People with food allergies , whose symptom can range from mild unpleasantness to sudden death, may likely be harmed by exposure to foreign proteins spliced into common food products. Since humans have never before eaten most of the foreign proteins now being gene-spliced into foods, stringent pre-market safety-testing(including volunteer human feeding studies)is necessary in order to prevent a future public disaster. GENETIC BIO-INVASION By virtue fo their "superior" genes, some GE plants and animals will eventually run amok, overpowering wild species. What will happen to wild fish and marine species, for example, when bio-tech release into the enviroment carp, salmon, and trout that are twice as large, and eat twice as much food as their wild counterparts? Buying organic fruits and veggies really isnt that much more expensive than conventional and when you consider the health care costs of eating unhealthy foods it doesnt come close to what you could or do pay. But buying organic isnt just about our health, it is also about protecting our enviroment and supporting our natural farmers. It supports our world in every possible way you could ever imagine by keeping posions out of the envirometent and out of our bodies. It keeps our world working in harmony. Every little thing you do can make a difference in protecting our world from being destroyed by man and their chemicals and buying organic is one of the greatest things you can do.





 

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