“It destabilizes cholesterol deposits in the coronary arteries, leading to heart attacks and potentially even strokes.”

“It chews up nerve cells in the brains of Alzheimer’s victims. It may even foster the proliferation of abnormal cells and facilitate their transformation into cancer.”

“In other words, chronic inflammation may be the engine that drives many of the most feared illnesses of middle and old age.”

Inflammation happens for a reason… it happens when a bacterium or toxin or some other irritant triggers an immune response.

Several studies have shown that genetically modified food is triggering that response.

Dr. P. M. Bhargava, one of the world’s top biologists, has reviewed 600 scientific journals. He concluded that GM foods in the US are largely responsible for the increase in many serious diseases.

Dr. Robin Bernhoft, a Harvard-trained doctor and director of the Bernhoft Center for Advanced Medicine in Ojai, California, has found that patient health improves when GM foods are removed from their diet.

Dr. Miguel Gonzalez, a physician in California, believes that “genetically modified foods are causing inflammation of the bowel.”

Research from the American Academy of Environmental Medicine states that

“several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food consumption including infertility, immune dysfunction, accelerated aging, dysfunction of cholesterol synthesis, insulin regulation, and protein formation, and changes in the liver, kidney, spleen
and gastrointestinal system.”

Many scientists believe that GM food is what’s triggering inflammation.

And if you don’t address that properly, you may end up with coronary artery disease, arthritis, cancer and other chronic illnesses.

We’ve All Become Unwitting Guinea Pigs In
An Experiment of Massive Proportions

Take soybeans, for example.

Scientists took genes from bacteria and inserted into the DNA of soy, creating a new kind of crop that can withstand mega doses of an herbicide called Roundup.

They call it Roundup-ready soy… and it accounts for 94% of soybeans in the U.S.

So, farmers can spray these crops as often as they like. The herbicide will kill all weeds, but leave the soy plants intact.

This is great because the farmers who buy Roundup-ready soy also have to buy Roundup, which is the company’s best-selling herbicide.

As you can probably imagine, this scheme is very lucrative for biotech companies.

The only problem is that new studies show that GM soy can be dangerous to your health.

You might say “but I don’t eat a lot of soy products, so what’s the big deal?”

Well, did you know soy is in a thousand places we might never expect it, usually in the form of “vegetable oil”? You’ll find it in salad dressings, soups, and imitation meat products.

In fact, if you or anyone in your family eats any kind of processed food, such as cereals, cookies, cakes, chips, crackers, muffins, mac n’ cheese, chicken nuggets, it’s very likely you’re eating genetically modified soy.

And numerous studies with animals have showed that…

It Can Cause Damage in the Liver,
Lung, and Pancreas

UK scientists at the York Nutritional Laboratory have linked GM soy to digestion problems, headache, lethargy, acne, and eczema. And they sounded the alarm saying that their findings “provide real evidence that GM food could have a tangible, harmful impact on the human body.”

And a human study from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences said that parts of the altered gene in GM soy went on to live in our gut. The study concluded this has the potential to change our immune system in unpredictable ways.

Dr. John Boyles, an allergy specialist from Ohio, says “GM soy is so dangerous that I tell people never to eat it.”

Even babies are at risk…

Because soy is used in 25% of all baby formulas in the US. Dr. Daniel Sheehan, a toxicologist formerly with the FDA, has warned that infants who drink this formula are part of a “large, uncontrolled and basically unmonitored human infant experiment.”

One easy step you can take is to avoid processed or packaged foods.

You see, aside from soybeans, in the U.S., 90% of sugar beets and 88% of corn are also genetically modified.

These items are basic components of pretty much everything you can find in a grocery store. So, every time you or your family eat processed or packaged food, there’s a good chance you’re taking a bite of a GM ingredient.

You Could Be Eating a
Dangerous Toxin Every Day

Just like soy, corn also seems to be everywhere. High-fructose corn syrup lurks in foods that don’t seem “corny” to us: candy, breads, ketchup, granola bars, and even English muffins.

While soy has been genetically modified to withstand herbicides, corn has been genetically modified to produce its own insecticide.

Scientists took genes from a bacterium that produces an insecticide and inserted it into corn. With that new genetic material, the corn can produce its own bacterial toxins, called Bt protein.

It’s a toxin that’s design to break open the stomach of insects that try to eat the corn. So, the corn’s cells produce a toxic protein that kills bugs.

The crop itself is the pesticide.

When I discovered this information, the first thing that came to my mind was…

“Wait a second… if this toxin destroys the insect’s gut, could it do the same to me and my family?”

According to the FDA, this corn is safe. They say Bt protein is toxic only to insects. But there’s new evidence that shows Bt protein could damage humans as well.

A recent study published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences concluded that GM corn damages the liver and kidneys.

The Journal of Hematology Diseases published research showing that it destroys red blood cells, disrupt blood clotting and cause organ degeneration and tissue damage in mice.

Joe Cummins, Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the University of Western Ontario, has also concluded that the Bt toxin could damage the small intestine.

And UK’s Institute of Science in Society has said that Bt “kills human kidney cells” and that its approval was based on “inadequate safety assessments.”

No wonder genetically modified corn is already outlawed in Hungary, Austria, Germany, Greece, and Luxembourg.

But Americans are unknowingly consuming this Bt toxin every single time they eat something that has GM corn in it.

Just look at these rats… they were fed genetically modified corn… the same corn you buy from the grocery store… and feed your family.

In this particular study, GM corn caused rats to develop horrifying tumors, widespread organ damage, and premature death.

Rats that ate GM corn saw four times the number of deaths and an 80% increase in cancer compared to those that ate conventional corn.

Despite all this shocking evidence, agricultural companies and the FDA continue to claim that GM corn is safe because, according to them, our body naturally degrades the Bt toxin.

If that’s true, then how can you explain the fact that toxic pesticides from GM food crops have been found in unborn babies?

In a study that analyzed dozens of samples from women, scientists found traces of the toxin in 93% of the pregnant mothers and in 80% of the umbilical cords.

The research suggested the chemicals were entering the body through eating meat, milk and eggs from farm livestock that were fed GM corn.

And UK’s The Telegraph reported that the study’s conclusion “appears to contradict the food industry’s long-standing claim that any potentially harmful chemicals added to crops would pass safely through the body.”

The strong link between government and big corporations that produce GM food:

Big corporations, lobbyists and politicians will do anything to keep you in the dark. Why? Because there’s big money involved. That’s the cold truth of our food supply.

If word gets out that genetically modified foods are potentially dangerous, the food companies’ billions of dollars in profits will be in SERIOUS jeopardy.

The genetically modified crop market is huge. In the last decade alone, Monsanto, which controls 90% of the market, has made more than $116 billion in sales.

And they use a lot of that money to make sure nobody will interfere with their business.

In recent years they have spent over $52 million in lobbying to make sure they get the most favorable legislation possible.

And that has paid off… as the New York Times said, “the White House worked behind the scenes to help Monsanto get the regulations that it wanted.”

The company is also a very prolific user of Washington DC’s “revolving door.”

The FDA, for example, welcomes past and future executives from the food industry.

In other words, giant corporations literally send employees to go work for the FDA and other regulatory agencies, where they can write food policies that will favor the companies.

To this date, the current Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the FDA is a former Monsanto employee.

As a key regulator in charge of food safety, he has the ability to control what does and doesn’t show up on your family’s table.

Don’t you think that having someone from one of these corporations in charge of food policies represents a huge conflict of interest?

Thanks to these intimate links with government agencies, food corporations could be…

Using You and Your Family as Lab Rats

In 1992, when the FDA approved GMOs, the agency claimed there was an overall consensus among scientists that GM food was safe.

But now we know that’s a big lie.

In 1998 a lawsuit forced 44,000 pages of internal files from the FDA into the public domain.

These memos reveal that the consensus was the exact opposite. Scientists urged the FDA to do long-term safety studies to guard against possible allergies, toxins, new diseases, and nutritional problems.

For example, FDA scientists recommended testing every GM food “before it enters the marketplace” because of “the possibility of unexpected, accidental changes in genetically engineered plants.”

According to one of the memos, Dr. Linda Kahl, an FDA compliance officer, warned the agency that “the processes of genetic engineering lead…to different risks.”

And Dr. Jim Maryanski, the FDA Biotechnology Coordinator at the time, admitted that there was no consensus about the safety of genetically engineered foods in the scientific community.

But bureaucrats at the FDA ignored the scientists’ warnings and allowed GM food crops onto the market.

Dr. Maryanski also admitted that the approval of GMOs was based on politics, not science. He said that “the determination whether a new protein is safe can be made by the company.”

In other words, the FDA- the agency so many naïve Americans think is here to protect us- allowed food companies to determine the safety of GM food.

But one of Monsanto’s own executives said at the time that “Monsanto should NOT have to vouch the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible.”

Dr. Philip Regal, a professor at the University of Minnesota and an internationally recognized plant expert once stated: “Over the last fifteen years, I and other scientists have put the FDA on notice about the potential dangers of genetically engineered foods.”

According to Andrew Kimbrell, who at the time was Executive Director of the International Center for Technology Assessment, “by failing to require testing and labeling of genetically engineered foods, the FDA has made consumers unknowing guinea pigs for potentially harmful food substances.”

And a report by eight renowned international experts concluded that “agricultural GM companies and evaluation committees systematically overlook the side effects of GMOs and pesticides.”

The study also says they greatly underestimate “the initial signs of diseases like cancer and diseases of the hormonal, immune, nervous and reproductive systems, among others.”

And it gets worse… the food industry’s control goes well beyond the government.

Keeping the American Public in the Dark

Big food companies provide funding to most food research, conferences, and fellowships.

This private funding certainly seems to affect the way professors and scientists think, act, and publish.

Researchers have a huge incentive to write only good things about GM crops, otherwise they may lose funding… or even worse, their jobs.

A study from Food and Water Watch concluded that this corporate funding “taints the independence and objectivity of agricultural research.”

These companies have also been systematically blocking researchers from using its patented gene modified seeds.

According to Doug Sherman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, “multibillion-dollar agricultural corporations, including Monsanto and Syngenta, have often refused to provide independent scientists with seeds, or they’ve set restrictive conditions that severely limit research options.”

26 researchers from different universities even wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency protesting restricted access to seeds. The letter states that “no truly independent research can be legally conducted on many critical questions involving these crops. The biotech industry is completely driving the bus.”

The magazine Scientific American has also reported that “only studies that the seed companies have approved ever see the light of a peer-reviewed journal. In a number of cases, experiments that had the implicit go-ahead from the seed company were later blocked from publication because the results were not good.”

In order words, these companies basically choose who gets to do research and what topics are studied and published.

They also try to destroy the reputation and careers of any scientists who stand in their way.

Perhaps, biologist Arpad Pusztai is the best example. He had more than 300 articles and 12 books to his credit and was the world’s top expert in his field.

In the 1990s, he conducted a study that showed that rats that ate GM potatoes developed potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, smaller brains and testicles, partially atrophied livers, and damaged immune systems.

After his shocking discovery, he decided to reveal his findings on national TV.

Two days later he was fired and silenced with threats of a lawsuit. His team was dismantled. And the government, with the help of big corporations, launched a smear campaign to destroy his reputation.

Many other scientists have been threatened and fired from their jobs as well.

That’s why University of California at Berkeley professor Ignacio Chapela says that “it’s very hard for us to publish in this field. People are scared.”

That’s a big reason why most Americans have no idea how dangerous GM foods are.

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Corn used to be one of my favorite foods. Soybeans used to be a healthy food, as was soybean oil.  I stopped eating corn years ago when I found out about Monsanto, and unfortunately, you will find it – in the form of “high fructose corn syrup”- in many packaged / processed foods, even bread. BE A LABEL READER, for you and your loved ones health. Two thirds of what is now on the grocers shelves is on my OFF list  !! 

Please take this seriously; take care, “X”