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Changing The World, One Kitchen At A Time |
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Changing the World, One Kitchen at a Time
Healthy Wealthy nWise
Jeffrey Smith is the author of the best-selling book Seeds of Deception which is about the dangers of genetically modified foods, and he's also the author of the recently released Genetic Roulette. Jeffrey Smith never intended to be a leader in the health and food industries, but when he learned about the dangers of genetically modified foods, his passion became to change the world.
In his effort to change the way the world views genetically modified (GM) foods, Jeffrey Smith ran for congress, worked at a Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) detection laboratory as Vice-President of Marketing, and traveled the world speaking to political leaders about his book, Seeds of Deception. After all that work, Jeffery Smith still felt his message wasn't reaching its target audience. His book read too much like a novel, and political leaders didn't have time for that.
Over the course of two years, Jeffrey Smith worked with more than 30 scientists to write his next book, Genetic Roulette. This book documents 65 health risks of genetically modified foods. Many people have never heard of GM foods. What are they?
GM foods are made from GM organisms. When an organism is created by merging the DNA of two unrelated organisms, a new, genetically modified organism is the result. An example of this is when DNA from a spider is put into a goat to modify milk production, yeilding milk high in spider proteins. This milk could theoretically be used to produce bullet proof vests. Another example is adding the DNA of bacteria and viruses to plants with the intention of producing pesticides and making crops that are resistant to herbicides.
What happens when you eat foods like chips or bread that are made from modified corn and wheat crops? Your digestive tract can become the breeding ground for pesticides. The goal of GM food research is to create more food to save the world from a hunger crisis, but our primitive knowledge of the subject makes eating these crops a game of roulette.
Jeffrey Smith spends his time proving to people that companies are more concerned about the bottom line than they are about long-term health risks of their foods. The quicker they can get their GM foods on the market, the quicker they'll begin making a profit.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was created to protect us from unsafe foods, so why aren't FDA leaders doing anything to stop unsafe foods from making it to market? The 1992 FDA policy claims that the agency is "Not aware of any information showing that the foods created from these methods differ in any meaningful or uniform way." That means that the FDA is taking a hands-off approach. They're not going to require any special testing because they believe GM products are the same as natural ones.
Many of the FDA's own scientists have come forward to say that GM foods cause allergies, toxins, new diseases, and nutritional problems. Some even reported their findings to superiors, but they were ignored. Jeffrey Smith has made it his passion to spread the word about the hidden dangers of eating GM foods.
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