Saturday, February 26, 2011

Genetically Modified Foods are Everywhere in the U.S.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110225/ap_on_re_us/us_food_and_farm_biotech_crops
Begin quote from above news article.

WASHINGTON – You may not want to eat genetically engineered foods. Chances are, you are eating them anyway.
Genetically modified plants grown from seeds engineered in labs now provide much of the food we eat. Most corn, soybean and cotton crops grown in the United States have been genetically modified to resist pesticides or insects, and corn and soy are common food ingredients.
The Agriculture Department has approved three more genetically engineered crops in the past month, and the Food and Drug Administration could approve fast-growing genetically modified salmon for human consumption this year.
Agribusiness and the seed companies say their products help boost crop production, lower prices at the grocery store and feed the world, particularly in developing countries. The FDA and USDA say the engineered foods they've approved are safe — so safe, they don't even need to be labeled as such — and can't be significantly distinguished from conventional varieties.
Organic food companies, chefs and consumer groups have stepped up their efforts — so far, unsuccessfully — to get the government to exercise more oversight of engineered foods, arguing the seeds are floating from field to field and contaminating pure crops. The groups have been bolstered by a growing network of consumers who are wary of processed and modified foods. end quote.

The real problem is that genetically modified foods have been killing people for some time. However, this information is often suppressed. For example, how hard would it be to prove that genetically modified food killed people if the food isn't even labeled? Yes. That's right. It's impossible. But that is what is happening in real life.

First of all, if you do the research the so called genetically modified corn finding it's way into corn chips and into many other food products has mainly been patented as an insecticide. That's right. The innards of the genetics of the new corn has been patented as a living insecticide. And if it kills bugs that try to eat it what does it do to humans who eat it and don't know it is genetically modified? Think about it!

My neighbor's daughter got

Eosinophilia

An increase in eosinophils, i.e., the presence of more than 500 eosinophils/microlitre of blood is called an eosinophilia, and is typically seen in people with a parasitic infestation of the intestines, a collagen vascular disease (such as rheumatoid arthritis), malignant diseases such as Hodgkin's disease, extensive skin diseases (such as exfoliative dermatitis), Addison's disease, in the squamous epithelium of the esophagus in the case of reflux esophagitis, eosinophilic esophagitis, and with the use of certain drugs such as penicillin. In 1989, contaminated L-tryptophan supplements caused a deadly form of eosinophilia known as eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome, which was reminiscent of the Toxic Oil Syndrome in Spain in 1981.
Reference ranges for blood tests of white blood cells, comparing eosinophil granulocyte amount (shown in light red) with other cells.
 
from genentically modified food. My son's best friend in his 30s had all his lower intestines removed likely from the same thing because he was going to die before this could be diagonosed. He will never work again and with a colostomy bag constantly against his belly to capture feces the rest of his life. 
Luckily, my neighbor's daughter was a nurse oncologist and prevented the doctors from removing her lower intestines in time. She could only eat rice for one year's time but she lived and is slowly able to add more foods into her diet.

Though these two people I know didn't die, most die who are allergic to these genetically modified grains before they can be saved. These are but two examples. But how can people prove what has happened to them if they can't even be told when they are eating genetically modified food by the government of the U.S.?

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