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 Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 3:42 am
Just Say No 2 GMO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFXTEy13gIs
Warning: This Common Food Causes Devastating Offspring Defects in New Research Study
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/22/jeffrey-smith-interview-april-24.aspx
Engineered Poison Lurking in Your Everyday Food?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/03/jeffrey-smith-interview.aspx
Why has this Common Food Been Dumped in Europe… Yet, is Still Rampant in the US?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/29/jeffrey-smith-interview-specter-rebuttal.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/14/Everything-you-MUST-KNOW-About-Dangerous-Genetically-Modified-Foods.aspx
Monsanto Induced Extinction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLswq5FvKkI
10 Reasons to Avoid Genetically Modified Foods
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/02/27/10-reasons-why-no-one-needs-gm-foods.aspx
Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/03/25/doctors-warn-avoid-genetically-modified-food.aspx
The Health Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods (few part series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94d-KVorSHM
Soft kill Frankenfoods
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o4bFi4k0fg
Monsanto: End of Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJcZLXX39KA
A Silent Forest 1 of 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5rHZE9H7OA
Monsanto Forced Extinction (ALFALFA IS NEXT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLswq5FvKkI
GM Crop Use Makes Minor Pests a Major Problem
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/06/01/gm-crop-use-makes-minor-pests-a-major-problem.aspx
Also look up the 29 minute film "Poison on the Platter" - an eye-opening film on Genetically Modified (GM) Foods. You can find it on youtube and google video.
Fantastic coast to coast broadcast, I highly recommend it:
GM Food Dangers - 11 parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx4PFlZeh9s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HDWMmd4PBc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-XtjtLlaB0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v95CqNIqKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk9SEOxqHx0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzpAt2zTpR4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eM1xuvIWIQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZUIyhMJiLg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0IPamctNOo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnCL_n1zZZw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw8aueNWaog
http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com/SG/Home/index.cfm
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/Home/index.cfm
FDA Says You Have No Right to Real Food Unless They Give You Permission First
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/29/fda-says-you-have-no-right-to-real-food-unless-they-give-you-permission-first.aspx
Monsanto’s Deadly Gift for Earthquake-Stricken Haiti…
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/06/03/another-despicable-monsanto-move-seeks-to-devastate-haiti-further.aspx
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:49 pm
Engineered Poison Lurking in Your Everyday Food?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/03/jeffrey-smith-interview.aspx
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:09 pm
Action Alert -- Protect Your Right to Know Which Foods Contain GMOs
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/04/non-gmo-message-to-us-government.aspx
They must stop U.S. negotiators at an international (Codex) conference from May 3-7, from pushing an agenda that could make it difficult for anyone, anywhere in the world to label foods as genetically modified (GM) – or even make non-GMO claims on their product’s label.
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 5:57 pm
I just found out I have a "Whole Foods MArket" a block down a side street on my way home from work...and I apparently have passed it every day for the past 3 or 4 years and never noticed XD
All their "Store brand" foods and products are Organic smile I'm gonna be shopping there a lot more.
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 8:18 pm
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 1:46 pm
Warning: This Common Food Causes Devastating Offspring Defects in New Research Study
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/22/jeffrey-smith-interview-april-24.aspx
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 3:46 pm
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 3:02 pm
Why has this Common Food Been Dumped in Europe… Yet, is Still Rampant in the US?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/29/jeffrey-smith-interview-specter-rebuttal.aspx
FDA Says You Have No Right to Real Food Unless They Give You Permission First
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/29/fda-says-you-have-no-right-to-real-food-unless-they-give-you-permission-first.aspx
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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:26 pm
GM Crop Use Makes Minor Pests a Major Problem
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/06/01/gm-crop-use-makes-minor-pests-a-major-problem.aspx
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:35 pm
Monsanto’s Deadly Gift for Earthquake-Stricken Haiti…
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/06/03/another-despicable-monsanto-move-seeks-to-devastate-haiti-further.aspx
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Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:44 pm
Just a personal thought. It is EXTREMELY difficult to avoid genetically modified foods. They are everywhere. Everyone's heard that when the pilgrams came, corn was small and multicoloured right? Farmers genetically modified it to get more corn per cob, have bigger ears of corn and have a more pleasing colour.
And to think of just all the dozens of fruits and vegetables that have been genetically modified from other fruits. It's crazy. And I will say it. It's impossible to avoid ALL genetically altered foods.
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Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:33 pm
Noodle Hierarchy Just a personal thought. It is EXTREMELY difficult to avoid genetically modified foods. They are everywhere. Everyone's heard that when the pilgrams came, corn was small and multicoloured right? Farmers genetically modified it to get more corn per cob, have bigger ears of corn and have a more pleasing colour. And to think of just all the dozens of fruits and vegetables that have been genetically modified from other fruits. It's crazy. And I will say it. It's impossible to avoid ALL genetically altered foods. Do you mean genetically modified through breeding and selection, or do you mean genetically modified through splicing DNA? I'm pretty sure that most of our food crops, vegetables, and fruits have been altered to their current state through selective breeding and cross-breeding. That's why they look so much different than their "wild" counterparts. Only recently have crops been truly genetically modified through gene splicing technology.
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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 7:19 am
Obscurus Noodle Hierarchy Just a personal thought. It is EXTREMELY difficult to avoid genetically modified foods. They are everywhere. Everyone's heard that when the pilgrams came, corn was small and multicoloured right? Farmers genetically modified it to get more corn per cob, have bigger ears of corn and have a more pleasing colour. And to think of just all the dozens of fruits and vegetables that have been genetically modified from other fruits. It's crazy. And I will say it. It's impossible to avoid ALL genetically altered foods. Do you mean genetically modified through breeding and selection, or do you mean genetically modified through splicing DNA? I'm pretty sure that most of our food crops, vegetables, and fruits have been altered to their current state through selective breeding and cross-breeding. That's why they look so much different than their "wild" counterparts. Only recently have crops been truly genetically modified through gene splicing technology. I actually wanted to speak about both of those things. Not necessarily does it have to be recently for a fruit to be "spliced". People have been trying to combine fruits and vegetables since decades ago. For example, grapefruit are a 18th century hybrid of the orange amd pummelo. Or maybe this can't be labled as splicing. If you are talking about the new scientific way of doing stuff with super microscopes and dna. >.>;But my definition of splice is when two things have been joined together. Correct me if I am wrong. I always think about the amount of corn by-products that is in everything. Corn, in todays world, is very hard to escape. You can pretty much be sure without even looking at the label of any junk food that corn is in some way in there. Now, corn has certainly been modified to all hell.
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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:09 pm
Noodle Hierarchy Obscurus Noodle Hierarchy Just a personal thought. It is EXTREMELY difficult to avoid genetically modified foods. They are everywhere. Everyone's heard that when the pilgrams came, corn was small and multicoloured right? Farmers genetically modified it to get more corn per cob, have bigger ears of corn and have a more pleasing colour. And to think of just all the dozens of fruits and vegetables that have been genetically modified from other fruits. It's crazy. And I will say it. It's impossible to avoid ALL genetically altered foods. Do you mean genetically modified through breeding and selection, or do you mean genetically modified through splicing DNA? I'm pretty sure that most of our food crops, vegetables, and fruits have been altered to their current state through selective breeding and cross-breeding. That's why they look so much different than their "wild" counterparts. Only recently have crops been truly genetically modified through gene splicing technology. I actually wanted to speak about both of those things. Not necessarily does it have to be recently for a fruit to be "spliced". People have been trying to combine fruits and vegetables since decades ago. For example, grapefruit are a 18th century hybrid of the orange amd pummelo. Or maybe this can't be labled as splicing. If you are talking about the new scientific way of doing stuff with super microscopes and dna. >.>;But my definition of splice is when two things have been joined together. Correct me if I am wrong. I always think about the amount of corn by-products that is in everything. Corn, in todays world, is very hard to escape. You can pretty much be sure without even looking at the label of any junk food that corn is in some way in there. Now, corn has certainly been modified to all hell. When I talk about splicing I mean opening up the genome of a plant and inserting something like scorpion DNA. Selective breeding of fruits and vegetables is a natural thing. All humans did was bring those plants together and breed them for favorable traits. Never in nature would tomato and scorpion DNA splice together. It's like how livestock were bred for favorable traits. Or even dogs. We don't tamper with their genomes; we just breed two individuals that have a favorable trait in hopes that that trait will be passed on to the offspring.
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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:18 pm
Obscurus When I talk about splicing I mean opening up the genome of a plant and inserting something like scorpion DNA. Selective breeding of fruits and vegetables is a natural thing. All humans did was bring those plants together and breed them for favorable traits. Never in nature would tomato and scorpion DNA splice together. It's like how livestock were bred for favorable traits. Or even dogs. We don't tamper with their genomes; we just breed two individuals that have a favorable trait in hopes that that trait will be passed on to the offspring. I guess you could say that selective breeding would also bring out the better parts of an organism. Evolution makes things better, stronger, more productive. Just as with corn, which I've seen bad mouthed alot in this chat. We only grow seeds from certain plants because these plants were the best for production of farmers and industry. Then I guess one could say that corn isn't so bad either. But when you consider that so many people are allergic to it, it's confusing why they'd use corn syrups as a sweetener instead of the other alternatives. And this thing about dogs being bred to produce favorable traits. Some of that's highly controversial. There's this type of dog that they at one point had bred to be so small that everytime a female gave birth, it would die because it's body could not handle the strain. >.> But anyway. This thread is about food. When you consider situations as the one above though, it makes you wonder if doing things for the human benefit and not allowing things to occur naturally could be the right thing to do. Afterall. Humans affect so many things in this world. We are overpopulated and we need new, better, faster resources to be able to sustain all of the people on the planet. And the ways we have come up with to do this are sometimes quite controversial. There is the moral standard of "Playing God." But then again, you have to think about greater goods. Everyone I'm sure as heard of "Golden Rice"? A rice that is produced in mass quantities, enriched with vitamins and nutrients and shipped to countries where poverty is rampant. This sort of GMO helps save lives.
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