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The GMO Tipping Point—How to get genetically-modified food out of your diet

How would you react if you discovered that most of the foods you ate every day contained hidden ingredients that could be slowly poisoning you?
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Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe?

Genetically modified foods have come to your local supermarket, even though most Americans don't want them and many believe they're dangerous. A CBS poll found that 53 percent of Americans wouldn't buy food they knew had been genetically modified. But here's the rub—there's no easy way to know which foods contain genetically modified ingredients.
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The Big GMO Cover-Up

Something doesn’t quite add up about genetically modified (GM) foods. Big biotech claims that genetic engineering is a necessary step towards feeding the world’s growing population.  And yet debate still rages as to whether GM crops actually increase yields at all.  Furthermore, the UN recently stated that 30,000 people a day were starving to death, but not because of underproduction of crops. It’s simply through lack of access.
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Former Author Talks About Dangers of Modified Foods

Genetic pollution could last longer than nuclear waste and global warming, said Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception, Monday night at The Forum at UW-Eau Claire’s Zorn Arena.
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Eco-Farm: Seeds of Ignorance

I've been writing about genetically modified food since I first took up food-politics writing back in 2005. My lens has always been corporate power and biodiversity. I saw GM seeds as yet one more way corporations siphon profit out of the food system, brazenly claiming ownership of a broad chunk of humanity's seed heritage.
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Science or nonsense? Two sides of the GM debate

Hans Lombard, a public relations man paid to “hawk” GM foods around South Africa, provides superb examples of industry spin. Starting with his accusations about my book, Seeds of Deception, US academic institutions don’t “back” books. Professors select them. And several, from universities including Yale, assign it. The book is also “backed” by an international team of scientists that reviewed it and is rated No. 1 on the subject by The Ecologist. It documents hijacked regulatory agencies, rigged research, threatened scientists and covered-up health risks.
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Modified feed ‘bad for SA’s meat, dairy export hopes’

CAPE TOWN—South African meat and dairy producers risk losing European export markets if they feed their livestock on genetically modified crops, US author Jeffrey Smith said yesterday.
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Rammed down our throats

Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception, the best-selling book on genetic engineering, spills the beans to noseweek about the hidden dangers in the foods we eat and the way massive seed and agrichemical corporations such as Monsanto are manipulating governments and science to foist their questionable products on us. South Africa (along with Brazil and India) is one of Monsanto’s key targets.
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Researcher Warns of Risk with GM Food

12 May, 2004—Scientists are "nowhere near" understanding the health and environmental impacts of genetically-modified crops, a leading critic from the United States will warn Westcountry audiences this week. Jeffrey Smith, founder and director of the Institute for Responsible Technology in the US, is giving a series of talks on the controversial issue across the country this week.
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Growing Concerns: Unearthing the dirt behind the rise of GMOs

"In response to concerns raised by our customers over the use of genetically modified (GM) foods and to comply with government regulations, we have decided to remove, as far as practicable, GM soy and maize from all food products served in our restaurant."—From a sign posted in the cafeteria at the UK headquarters of Monsanto, the world's largest manufacturer of genetically modified organisms.
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Jeffrey Smith's Seeds of Deception Tour Helping to Shape Policy

Since his book launch in September, Fairfielder Jeffrey Smith has visited nearly 100 cities in 12 countries on 5 continents, meeting with senior politicians, testifying before state and national committees, and reaching tens of millions of people through TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines. Jeffrey's book, Seeds of Deception, is considered the most complete and compelling presentation of the health dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and the corporate manipulation responsible for their approval. Former UK environment minister Michael Meacher says, "What is so exciting about this book is that it is no dry text of scientific exegesis—it positively fizzes with the human drama of the cabals and conspiracies behind the scenes which have littered the history of Big Biotech in its frantic efforts to get itself accepted. It is meticulously documented and powerfully written, somewhere between a documentary and a thriller." Meacher, who wrote the foreword to Jeffrey's UK edition, was on hand to help him launch the Australian edition in Sydney. Eight days and 35 media interviews later, Jeffrey traveled to the conference of the United Nations Cartagena Protocol for Biosafety in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He presented books to senior representatives from more than 50 countries and held a "side event" to explain the latest findings on the health dangers of GM foods to conference delegates. This included three just-announced discoveries: The potentially dangerous "promoter" inserted into most GM foods was found intact in rat tissue three days after a single GM meal; thirty-nine Philippinos living next to a GM cornfield developed disease symptoms during the time of pollination (positive antibody tests support, but don't prove a connection); and transgenic vaccines gave rise to unpredicted and potentially dangerous hybrid viruses.
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Are GE Foods Dangerous?

While the US asserts that European resistance to genetically modified (GM) foods is a baseless, illegal trade barrier, British insurers liken the foods to asbestos and thalidomide, and refuse to insure them. The FDA claims that GM foods are generally recognized as safe, at the same time popular geneticist David Suzuki says any politician or scientist who tells you these products are safe is either very stupid or lying?[1]
Who do we believe?
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Hard to Swallow

Genetically modified food is potentially dangerous to human health and should be evaluated further before being fed to humans, said an expert at the Meeting of Parties for the Carta-gena Protocol.
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Author to Tour Region, Speak on Threats Posed by Use of GMOs

Author Jeffrey Smith, a longtime speaker on the possible dangers of genetically modified food, will conduct a tour of the region to discuss the health risks he believes are posed by altering the genes of crops.
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Author: Genetically engineered foods may pose danger

Without knowing it, you may be eating food made from or laced with a product that could be unsafe and hasn’t been sufficiently tested, contends the author of a new book, Seeds of Deception.
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Genetically Modified Foods Have Serious Health Risks—
The Science Behind the Anti-biotech Movement

In the summer of 2002, the British government sponsored the first-ever research on genetically modified food (GMOs) using human subjects. Researchers fed seven volunteers a single meal of soy burgers and soy milkshakes. The soy was genetically modified, as are 80 percent of the soybeans planted in the US.
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Plant-Incorporated Protectants; Potential Revisions to Current Production Regulations

The reason we are here today is because the 1992 White House chose to fast-track genetically modified (GM) foods and crops at the expense of science. Not wanting Congress to intervene and pass new laws that might slow down approvals through extensive testing and evaluation, they cobbled together a regulatory framework based on existing laws that were ill equipped to handle the harmful and unique risks of this new technology. As a result, the system is broken and public health and the environment are seriously at risk.
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