RealTime Health - Type 1 Diabetes. Why genetically engineered food is dangerous: New report by genetic engineers. Earth Open Source press release 17 June 2012 Aren’t critics of genetically engineered food anti-science? Isn’t the debate over GMOs (genetically modified organisms) a spat between emotional but ignorant activists on one hand and rational GM-supporting scientists on the other? A new report released today, “GMO Myths and Truths”,[1] challenges these claims. The report presents a large body of peer-reviewed scientific and other authoritative evidence of the hazards to health and the environment posed by genetically engineered crops and organisms (GMOs). Unusually, the initiative for the report came not from campaigners but from two genetic engineers who believe there are good scientific reasons to be wary of GM foods and crops. One of the report’s authors, Dr Michael Antoniou of King’s College London School of Medicine in the UK, uses genetic engineering for medical applications but warns against its use in developing crops for human food and animal feed.
Notes Key points from the report. Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies. Chris Buzelli On a brisk spring Tuesday in 1976, a pair of executives from the Sugar Association stepped up to the podium of a Chicago ballroom to accept the Oscar of the public relations world, the Silver Anvil award for excellence in "the forging of public opinion. " The trade group had recently pulled off one of the greatest turnarounds in PR history. For nearly a decade, the sugar industry had been buffeted by crisis after crisis as the media and the public soured on sugar and scientists began to view it as a likely cause of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Industry ads claiming that eating sugar helped you lose weight had been called out by the Federal Trade Commission, and the Food and Drug Administration had launched a review of whether sugar was even safe to eat. Consumption had declined 12 percent in just two years, and producers could see where that trend might lead.
Precisely how did the sugar industry engineer its turnaround? At best, the studies seemed a token effort. This McDonald's burger looks the same as the day it was cooked... 14 years ago. A 14-year-old cheese burger from McDonalds is still in original state fourteen years later. Vision courtesy: The Doctors To access our premium content,please subscribe or log in. It's quick and easy. The 14-year-old McDonald's burger. Picture: Screengrab, The Doctors Proof: The McDonald's reciept. Picture: Screengrab, The Doctors IF you need another reason to kick the junk food habit this should do it. Mr Whipple had been hoping to demonstrate the high levels of preservatives in fast food. He bought the hamburger from a McDonald's outlet way back in 1999, originally planning to keep it for a month to show friends the worrying power of preservatives.
But he forgot about it, finding it two years later in an old coat pocket. It has no signs of mould, fungus or even a strange odour. The 14-year-old McDonald's burger. Mr Whipple, from Utah, explained that he never meant the experiment to last this long. "It wasn't on purpose," he told TV show The Doctors. Read about the experiment here. GMO Food Is Actually Already Labeled If You Know A Few Rules. Back in 1995, I was party to some discussions about whether about-to-be-released GMO crops should be labeled at the consumer level. It was clear that a failure to do so would look to some like a conspiracy, but we also realized that it would be far too expensive to track the great rivers of grain well enough to be able to label everything accurately.
Practicality won the day and GMO foods were never labeled. 15 years later this decision is still being needlessly debated. Why You Can’t Really Track All Grain It does not normally make sense for a farmer to have his/her own harvesting equipment. A “May Contain” Label Might Have Been A Better Choice I actually supported the idea of a “may contain GMO” label, recognizing that things like corn and soybeans are turned into ingredients that are in just about any processed food (corn starch, HFCS, soy protein, soybean oil…).
Fruits and Vegetables The “Biotech By Choice” Brand Concept Biotech Wine A Biotech Crop to Feed the World Conclusion. Herbs at a Glance [NCCAM Health Information] Food Security. Just Label It: We Have a Right to Know.