GMOs - Food or Poison?

In reply to the Ledger’s - Genetic Modification Increases Crop Yield With No Ill Effects - Published: Friday, November 14, 2014 at 12:01 a.m.

I do not know who Stephen Durrance of Winter Haven is, but based upon his comments, he appears to be an employee of Monsanto.

For all those who think Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are safe foods, one must first understand that by its own definition, “Modified” means something (the DNA) was CHANGED thus making Organically grown food and GMO grown food to be COMPLETELY different.

DNA is the source of life – it has been scientifically proven that the DNA of organically grown foods are foods that can be used as medicine and promote a healthy life.  In short, it is the DNA of plants and animals that turn on or turn off genes within our own bodies to either promote healthy growth OR to develop unhealthy genes/DNA which produce illness and disease.  

Studies in other Countries have shown animals who consume GMO foods either die, develop cancerous growths, and the now damaged/changed/modified DNA is subsequently passed on to future generations and this is a PERMANENT change (good or bad) to the DNA forever. 

If in Haiti, when devastated by natural disasters and in desperate need of food rejected, refused and BURNED Monsanto’s seeds, they call them “Seeds of Death”, what does tell you?

19 May 2009 The American Academy Of Environmental Medicine Calls For Immediate Moratorium On Genetically Modified Foods (see http://www.aaemonline.org/gmopressrelease.html)  The AAEM calls for: (DID YOUR Doctor warn you about GMOs?)

 

• A moratorium on GM food, implementation of immediate long term safety testing and labeling of GM food.
• Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community and the public to avoid GM foods.  (Did your doctor warn you?)
• Physicians to consider the role of GM foods in their patients' disease processes.  (Did your doctor warn you?)
• More independent long term scientific studies to begin gathering data to investigate the role of GM foods on human health.

"Multiple animal studies have shown that GM foods cause damage to various organ systems in the body. With this mounting evidence, it is imperative to have a moratorium on GM foods for the safety of our patients' and the public's health," said Dr. Amy Dean, PR chair and Board Member of AAEM. 

In closing, until we have objective studies (studies NOT conducted by Monsanto, BioTech firms or chemical companies) that prove GMO Foods are Safe for human and animal consumption, the first thing the Consumer can do at this point is to Demand Organically grown food from their grocer and to only consume Organically grown foods.

Stop buying processed foods and GMO foods.  In doing so, the market place will drive these Franken foods from the Marketplace, as it has in other Countries when their residents stood up to protect their families health.

Rich Earl

Lake Wales