Campaign for Healthier Eating in America
From Provender Journal September/October 2008
Being against GMOs is not enough. That’s easy but ineffective. Our challenge is to make avoiding GMOs more commonplace. And that is the purpose of the Campaign for Healthier Eating in America. Its educational components convey the health risks of GMOs, thereby increasing the motivation for non-GMO foods, and if offers a Non-GMO Shopping Guide, making selection convenient.
Consider these gems about GMOS health dangers:
More than half the offspring from female rats fed GMO soy died within three weeks, compared to 10% from the non-GMO soy group. After the study was completed, the laboratory coincidentally switched to GM soy-based feed for all their rats. After two months on the GM soy, the infant mortality throughout the facility reached 55.3%.
About two dozen farmers report that when fed pesticide producing Bt corn varieties, pigs became sterile, had false pregnancies, or gave birth to bags of water. Cows and bulls also became sterile. Other farmers blamed Bt corn for the deaths of cows, horses, water buffaloes, and chickens. When Indian shepherds let their sheep graze continuously on Bt cotton plants after harvest, within 5-7 days 1 out of 4 sheep died. An estimated 10,000 sheep died in one region.
Hundreds of agricultural workers in Indai exposed to Bt cotton varieties are reporting allergic reaction; they don’t react to natural non-GM cotton.
The only published human feeding study on GM foods verified that the gene inserted into GM soy transfers into the DNA of our intestinal bacteria and continues to function. This means that years after we stop eating GM products, we may still have GM proteins continuously produced within our intestines. Translations: Eating a GM corn chip made from Bt corn might transform our intestinal flora into living pesticide factories.
Yikes!
Visit The True Food Shopping Guide: www.truefoodnow.org/shoppersguide/
For a list of Non-Gm and GM brands and foods
How else can you avoid GE foods?
Shop Organic, GE ingredients are NOT allowed in organic production. Find out more about organics.
www.truefoodnow.org/shoppersguide/organics.html
Avoid Packaged Foods. Eat whole grains, nuts, fruits and veggies as much as possible. Find out which fruits and vegetables, dry goods, nuts and seeds the biotech industry is experimenting on.
www.truefoodnow.org/crop/pipeline_rdintro.html
Buy Local. Join a local CSA and support local family farmers. Find a CSA or farmers market near you!
www.truefoodnow.org/shoppersguide/sustainable.html
Supermarkets and GE Foods. Find out which supermarkets have GE-free and organic private-label brands and get the tools you need to talk to your local supermarket managers.
www.truefoodnow.org/supermarkets/
Demand Labeling of GE Food. Tell Congress you want GE foods labeled!
http://ga3.org/campaign/Label_GE_Food
Be in the Know. Join the True Food Network and receive free action alerts and e-updates to keep you informed and give you simple ways to make your voice heard and demand true food.
http://ga3.org/cfs/join
