What does GMO stand for and why do you avoid it in your diet? This is the question that a camera crew from Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a late night talk show that airs on NBC, asked self proclaimed anti GMO advocates shopping at a local farmer’s market. GMO is tooted as a popular buzzword and it appears that people are jumping on the bandwagon without having the foggiest idea what the letters GMO really mean. Although this made for hilarious television, the people questioned looked like a bunch of idiots.
The clip starts with a hippie citing he avoids GMOs because of their “vibration” and he doesn’t want to put that in his body. It continues with a line up of people unable to define what the letters GMO stand for but they are all trying to avoid it. Is it right to assume from this short 5 minute segment, that the average Westerner is a flock following fool? You bet your corn chip munching, natural labelling ass it does.
You can not avoid something that you know nothing about. If you do not educate yourself you will be doing the very thing you were trying to not to do.
Here is the quick and dirty on Genetically Modified Foods.
Genetically modified organisms refer to food that is created my merging the DNA from one species with a different species. THIS NEVER HAPPENS IN NATURE.
You can not tell a GMO food by look or taste.
At least 70% of the food found in the US and Canada supermarkets is from GM crops and does not require labelling.
The two main traits of GMO foods are herbicide tolerance and the ability to produce its own pesticide. This makes the plant toxic, and not just to insects.
No one monitors human health impacts of GM foods.
Children are particularly susceptible to the effects of GM food because of their young, fast-developing bodies, vulnerability to allergies, milk and nutritional problems and antibiotic resistant diseases.
The safety of GMO foods is unproven and a growing body of research connects these foods with health concerns and environmental damage.
Certified organic and verified non GMO is the only label you can trust. Anyone can put the word “Natural” on a label.
Current GM foods include soybean, cotton, canola, sugar beets, corn, Hawaiiann papaya, zucchini, yellow squash, potatoes, tomatoes, oils, golden rice and salmon. Avoid all food with these ingredients. Read the label.
Unless it says, “Organic cane sugar” on the label, it is probably sugar from modified sugar beets.
The motivation behind the GMO deception is not world hunger but MONEY.
All over the world, regions and nations are demanding an end to GM crop cultivation.
If you can remember none of these facts, you can remember this photo.
Shocking findings in new GMO study: Rats fed lifetime of GM corn grow horrifying tumors, 70% of females die early.
Do not eat GMOs. Do not feed them to your children. A little bit is not okay. Would you eat a little bit of arsenic?
Cancer strikes 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 woman. Eating GMO food stacks the odds in your favour that the 1 is going to be you!
Resources:
NaturalNews.com, responsibletechnology.org.,davidsuzuki.org.,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzEr23XJwFY
I don"t do GMO whatever that is.
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