FrankenSalmon -

Coming Soon To

A Table Near You

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

(Healingtalks) In September of 2010 the FDA approved the first genetically animal safe for eating. The “product” is a genetically modified Atlantic salmon developed by AquaBounty Technologies  named AquaAdvantage Salmon (AAS).

“Improved” salmon

AAS can incredibly grow twice as fast, which is an economic boom. More $$ are to be made, which blinds consciousness not to look at the likely negative impacts.

How this was accomplished

This growth rate was gained by modifying the salmon’s genome, the addition of a growth hormone gene, and an antifreeze gene. AquaBounty claims its salmon is an environmentally sustainable alternative . With AAS, the unnatural modification occurs in that two proteins are being introduced into the salmon’s genetic makeup are from other fish.

Supposed benefits of huge and hugely profitable frankensalmon

Presumed benefits include:

• Enviro impact – AAS will be raised in land-based facilities to reduce the environmental impact on coastal areas
• Diseases – May eliminate the threat of disease transfers.
• Transport – Will allow the harvesters to live near these landbased food facilities, reducing some of the costs of fish transport and the use of fossil fuels, again helping the environment.

Ploy to sell harmful frankensalmon

The above ignores the following:

• Health impacts – First there is the  issue of safety in eating  genetically modified salmon is “are they safe to eat?”  There is amply evidence that other genetically modified foods have ill health effects – including causing allergic reactions, digestive disturbances, infertility, and an overall weakening of the immune system. There have been no long term studies, as usual.
• Environmental impacts – Then there is the issue of an ultimate environmental impact, especially if the AAS salmon are accidently introduced into the wild.  While AAS are designed for land facilities, precautions can never be fool-proof. This is why he Fish and Wildlife Service opposes frankenfish.

AAS salmon are all triploid females, which means that they are not only all female, but sterilized.  Sometimes this sterilization doesn’t work. There is a failure of sterilization in .1 to 1% of fish, which is a pretty small number, except fish farms usually contain  up to a 1 million fish – and many of these farms are to be established.

Given the size of Frankensalmon

How this could impact wild fish populations is unknown. But given their size, they may be more attractive for mating then a natural Atlantic salmon, which could negatively impact wild salmon populations.

Ultimately these farms should be outlawed. But is established, knowing the industry’s history and arrogance, it is unlikely there will be adequate  monitoring to make sure these salmon mutants none escape to the wild. Also the US government has had a nonchalant attitude toward such environmental threats, as evidence by the growing of GMO crops in wildlife preserves. This is especially important in areas where a salmon population is now already present. As the video below shows, there is a real potential for destroying the natural salmon population.

Related Articles

Promoting GMO Salmon – Has the FDA Gone Mad?fda-gone-mad/

NPR Story – Debating GMO Salmon

50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods

One-Third Of Wildlife Refuges Use GM Crops In Southeast

GMO Library

Related Video

Report by Food and Water Watch report. By the way, I was the original organizer of Food And Water, Inc. many years ago which first was used to oppose food radiation

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Shocking revelation:

chocolate to become the next

mass-marketed GM food

Julian Georgiou, Healingtalks Contributing Writer

(Healingtalks) Consumer beware indeed.

There is a brand new thrust toward adulterating what goes into our mouths. It is yet another dangerous modification of our food supply, and it involve a universal favorite, chocolate! Could there be anything more evil and disturbing than to mess with this great “ambrosia” or food of the gods?

Shocking as it sounds, this is exactly what’s on the horizon. Plans are under way to genetically modify 70% or more of our global cocoa supply. The campaign involves using hybrid, gene-modified cocoa trees and in collaboration the “Gang of Eight”

• MARS (makers of MARS bars) 
• USDA’s ARS or Agricultural Research Service
•  IBM
• NCGR (National Center for Genome Resources)
• Clemson University
• HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
• Indiana University
• Washington State University (CGD).

Where cocoa is grown

Modern role and prior history of  harvesting cocoa

Before going into the details of this terrible plan, lets look at the modern role and prior history of harvesting cocoa.

Cocoa actually ranks among the top ten agriculture commodities in the world. The cocoa industry thereby creates a livelihood for more than  6.5 million farmers in west and central Africa, Mexico, South America and  parts of Asia.  The first use of cocoa appears to have occurred around 1100 BC (Wiki). In the Americas, this crop has been cultivated for at least three millenniums, especially in Mexico, Central and South America.

So the question arises, if  humans have been  growing cocoa plants so successfully for so long, why should we ever tinker with this track record? Why fix what’s not broken?

Alluring false promises of GMO research

Researchers claim we can ‘accelerate’ the breeding process of cocoa trees..and that that will benefit the chocolate industry and cocoa growers in West Africa — the home of 70% of the world’s production (CGD).  The farmers don’t seem to have any voice in the above. Although CGD boasts better profits for altered plants, then if so at what expense and for lining whose pockets?

Dangers of genetically modified foods

Why worry about genetically modified foods?

In brief, genetic engineering involves a mechanical way of looking at nature that goes against the principles of life. Is not surprising thus that animal-feeding studies have shown that with GMO-altered feed, animal’s immune systems, general health, and the ability to procreate does downhill.

Many HealingTalks articles listed below go into this in much more detail.

• GMO Library
• GMO Threats Video Series
• Whole Foods Market Market caves to Monsanto 

What is in chocolate (Nutrients)

Cocoa is a nutrient-rich product that can bring on feelings of great well-being and happiness.

It does this because cocoa contains phenylethylamine, a slight antidepressant and stimulant. Cocoa can also increase the level of serotonine, likewise contributing to a feeling of well-being and happiness as resonating in your brain. This wonder product also contains some essential minerals including:

• magnesium,
• calcium
• iron
•  zinc
•  copper
•  potassium and manganese
•  vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, C, E and pantothenic acid.

Cocoa  keeps your high blood pressure down. It reduces the blood’s ability to clot (CocoaWeb).

And the best way to insure getting all these ingredients is by purchasing organic dark chocolate.

Raw chocolate recipe

Say no to GMOs by going organic. Make this delicious, organic, nutrient-rich desert by yourself and share it with friends and family:

Ingredients:

1 Cup of Raw Organic Raw Cocoa powder

½ Cup of Raw Cocoa Butter or Coconut Butter

1 Teaspoon of Stevia powder

1 Cup of soaked Almonds (Chopped)

Directions:

Use double boil method to melt the butter. Cook gently to about 110 F.

Add Stevia and mix well (Turn off water heat)

Add Cocoa

Poor onto a plate (Which has plastic wrapper)

Finally add nuts proportionately

Call to action

Given this thrust, we need to protect ourselves and our food supplies.

Labeling foods that contain GMOs in not mandatory in America.

However the California GMO labelling initiative that requires labeling can be a true Death Blow to GMOs. Also the Cacao Genome Database  (CGD) welcomes your feedback about their cocoa modification project. Tell them you don’t want it and won’t buy such products. Comments can be posted here.

Related Video – World According to Monsanto

Related Articles

• GMO Library
• GMO Threats Video Series
• Whole Foods Market Market caves to Monsanto 

References

• Cacao Genome Database
• Wikipedia, Chocolate
• Anthony Gucciardi NaturalSociety December 3, 2011, Genetically Modified Chocolate to Consume 70% of Global Cocoa Supply
• CocoaWeb

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Your Thanksgiving dinner -

Genetically engineered or not?

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

(Healingtalks) Did you know that most turkeys raised in the US are fed a diet of genetically engineered corn and soybean meal in a factory farm?

Why it matters whether your Thanksgiving turkey is bioengineered

When Monsanto’s engineered genes were discovered in the blood of pregnant women and their babies, scientists concluded it must have gotten there through eating GMO-fed animals. And that’s not all. The drugs and chemicals found in the typical non-organic turkey form an almost endless list (1).

What about tofu turkey for Thanksgiving?

Most soy is genetically engineered. Read the label to be sure it is organic. Remember also that the healthiest soy products are both organic and fermented, such as soy tempeh. Also beware that with non-organic products the soy is often “hexane-extracted” It is bathed in a serious neurotoxin that is banned in organic products.

Thanksgiving dairy

Love mash potatoes with butter, veggies with au gratin or desserts with desserts with whipped cream and ice cream?

Dairy products may be produced from the milk of cows shot up with GE growth hormones (a.k.a. rBGH or rBST) in factory farms!

Thanksgiving stuffing

Genetically engineered corn is highly toxic, according to Monsanto’s own data and as independently analyzed by scientists. Thus cornbread stuffing is usually bioengineered. High-fructose corn syrup and trans fats also can come from the same GE corn oil. Lastly, Monsanto’s genetically modified sweet corn is now on produce shelves. And GMO corn is already contaminating over 20,000 varieties of corn in Mexico and Central America.

Take action

Sign the Millions Against Monsanto petition to label GMOs and food from factory farms.

Sources for Organics

• Local Harvest has local, organic, pasture-raised and heritage breed turkeys.
• Raw milk from cows raised on organic pasture is the healthiest
• Organic seed growers preserving native and heirloom corn varieties.

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Video series

tells it all

about GMO threats

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks

(Healingtalks)  There is hardly a threat facing our planet that outpaces that of GMOs – genetically modified organisms. No individual more cogently explains this than Jeffrey M. Smith. And a synopsis of the entire case is presented in these four, each 15 minute long videos:

Jeffrey M. Smith:

GMO Threat I

Synopsis:

• GMOs – What are genetically modified foods
• Crops – 5 main modified crops
• Essentially equivalent – Industry introduction with the claim they are not significantly different
• Political crimes – Consensus of FDA scientists disagreed but were politically muffled by Bush Administrations; policies continued under Obama
• Doctors speak out – 2009 American Academy of Environmental Medicine came out with statement urging their physicians to prescribe only non-GMO diets to all patients because animal studies showed causal reproductive damage, immune system suppression, accelerated aging, insulin/cholesterol production dysfunctions, organ damage and gastro-intestinal harm.
• Two main types of GMOs – poison drinking and producing (e,g. herbicide resistant Roundup Ready and BT toxin producing)
• General planetary impact: significant increase in lbs of herbicides poisoning our fields
• General health impact: studies suppressed by Monsanto that these foods harbor harmfully adulterated proteins, anti-nutrients, and immune system suppressants creating a dangerous “genetic roulette” or health crap game.
• Statistics abound: that since the widespread introduction of gmos into our processed food supply, autoimmune diseases, inflammations, and allergies are more prevalent
• Debunking ingenuous claim – that BT  toxin producing bacteria genetically  inserted into our foods are safe because they either biodegrade or wash off. Deadly consequences observed to farmers and farm animals around the world
• Undressing further false claims - that Roundup ready crops are safe for our environment and for us to eat.

Jeffrey M. Smith:

The GMO Threat II

Synopsis:

• Continuation of debunking false claims for Roundup ready technology; why it causes mineral deficiencies as an essential chelator; disturbs hormones, causes sexual dysfunction, birth deformities or stillbirths and bio-accumulates.
• Suppression of GMO research – how scientists who bring to light GMO dangers are gaged, with examples from the UK, Russia and Argentina.
• Issue of hunger — demolishes the claim on several major counts that GMOs are a solution for world hunger
• Agenda of the biotech industry -What has been the strategy, since 1999, to monopolize or control the planting of all seeds on the planet with two decades.
• How GMOs were thwarted in Europe – Jeffrey describes the “tipping point” whereby major food producers all dropped GMO ingredients.
• Why and how this can and will happen in the US – outlining the Achilles heel of the industry, what we need to do to create a tipping point
• Industry reaction – how “Codex” is trying to thwart this  by making non-GMO labels illegal internationally.

Jeffrey M. Smith:

GMO Threat III

Synopsis:

Uniquely dangerous nature of genetic pollution – how it can be permanent, unlike chemical or nuclear pollution that biodegrades; it can’t fully be cleaned up or remediated. Try recalling salmon from the sea, gm mosquitos or pollen from the air. Damage thus may be irreversible.

Depth of lying plus collusion between government and industry - these parties have gotten together to hide the truth from the public, at the altar of making money. The first ever application for a GMO product at the FDA did provide raw research data and the finding were so bad, that it subjected the whole technology to questioning. The FDA reaction. It lied to the public that the findings were so good, no further research need be submitted in the future for any other GMO products except on a industry voluntary basis. And what is submitted reeks of such bad science it is an accumulation of horrendous lies.  Examples are given. Essentially the FDA was hijacked and outrageous mythologies were released to the public. These myths are promoted with intense arrogance in the face of not knowing the real long-term consequences of this most dangerous of technologies. The myths and claims were that:

• GMOs are safe (when really they are dangerous)
• GMOs proven safe (when no proof abounds)
• Involve a precise technology (actually a crap-shout roulette)
• Can help end world hunger (has very opposite impacts)
•  Is needed and here to stay – intense myths.

How best to oppose this arrogant lying – Small Non-profit organization’s like Jeffrey’s don’t have the funds to go head on with Monsanto’s  corruption of politicians but they can instead and more effectively reach consumers, doctors, and the general public  – families in their kitchens

Jeffrey M. Smith

GMO Threat IV

Synopsis:

• Continuation of the arrogance – 90 day tests conducted as a guide even though humans may eat GMOs for a lifetime
• Threat of terminator technology – how it is designed to devastate agriculture around the world. 1.4 billion farmers rely on annually saving seeds; effort to create bio-serfs/bio-colonialism and the dangerous annihilation of biodiversity
• GMO crop contamination- first declared impossible, then called insignificant (neither of which claims are true)
• Forcing GMOs on Third World countries, via hunger aide, and to contaminate their crops; how Zambia stood up to the US bully
• GMO safety issues – understanding health safety issues as the key to stopping the GMO technology jaugernaut.
• Bio-piratism
• Death of Bees – How GMO technology is implicated in the death of bees internationally
• Summation view of GMO technology – unprecedented dangers to our health and environment

Resources

• 50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods

• 10  Reasons to Avoid GMOs
  
• Six Short Videos – Everything You Need To Know About GMOs

Keywords:

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Library of Articles on Genetically Modified Foods

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

(Healingtalks) One of the most extensive libraries on the WW Web with hard-hitting, researched articles and videos. This includes my own groundbreaking book written over a decade ago, 50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods and my philosophical explanation for why the whole genetic model of Mendel carries false assumptions based on a thanoptic, mechanical, or dead view of nature.

The root problem involves the very core vision that led us (with the arrogant assumption of objectivity) out of the medieval and into the modern world. This refers to the mathematical vision of nature. The genetic model is simply derivative of a quantified or mathematical view of nature (as Mendel reduced life’s evolution to little more than statistics and where genes served as  atomic-like components to be analyzed like the rest of the mechanical model).

As a former math prodigy, I first excelled in physics and then became a renegade from that entire worldview, explaining why that vision only helps us best design machines but otherwise crudely misleads us about nature’s other root essence, and then harms nature when falsely driven ever deeper (and in a marriage with commerce). Overall this does not lead us onto a road of progress as promised (such as GMOs solving our world hunger problems) but rather toward progressive disasters. In fact we are on a road to our own self-destruction as misguided by that root vision, again in a marriage with commerce or the profit motive.

Philosophical issues – the deepest and most significant of all

The philosophical section of the library is at the very end, but it is really the most important and we will add to it in time. There are ways to fully correct the chief flaws of again  the root math-based or mechanical/dead vision of nature that ever guides modern life, and as introduced by Galileo, Descartes and Newton. This set the pace for the overall 17-21st century industrial/biotech revolutions. Correcting that vision’s chief flaws is vital for getting us right back on course. And this time we need to stay on course. We need to truly (not following ever deeper illusions) heal our overall relationship with nature.

We are not enlightened about a simple fact that math symbols just abstract universal separation (why these glorified symbols help us build atomic weapons). But the core of nature has, in my experience, a different universal relationship of connection (which the mathematical wisdom reflects in a polar reversal illusion – similar to the  illusion of the sun rotating around the earth rather than the opposite being more true.

Imagine for a moment that this is actually the  greatest of all illusions and corruptions of our consciousness, and why Monsanto’s routine following of but a monetary or financial goal essentially corrupts their consciousness to deceive the rest of us. Imagine also that without breaking through this illusion of illusions, humanity remains stuck in a fundamental human evolutionary rut.

In this light, I am going to say something very counter-cultural that would make my high school math, physics and chemistry teachers turnover in their graves – namely that it is not accidental that several Nobel-prize winning physicists and chemists have come down with Alzheimer’s disease because their guiding vision does not fundamentally fathom, pierce, or help us understand the root nature of the world we live in.

We fundamentally do not understand the root essence of our world, and as we dig deeper, we screw things up ever more.

So the philosophical issues, rarely known to be important, are actually the most critical and significant of all – and for redirecting the whole of modern life or re-navigating the whole of human consciousness about the nature of nature in our cosmos.

Conclusion

We can still create a Garden of Eden on Earth and rather than ever expanding super-toxic waste sites filled with synthetic chemicals, nuclear waste and Monsanto’s terminator GM seeds.

It is up to us.

This library is meant as a helpful tool in that direction.

VIDEOS

What Healingtalks is all about

HARMFUL EFFECTS

American Academy of Environmental Medicine calls for immediate moratorium on all genetically modified foods

50 harmful effects of genetically modified foods

Summary of harmful effects of genetically modified foods

Second Part of summary

Roundup Causes Birth Defects

GMOs could render important antibiotics worthless

Evidence E-coli superbug was bioengineered to produce human fatalities

Healthful foods you should never eat

This could threaten the future of our entire food chain

50% of rats given this died – why is it on our dinner plate?

Genetically modified foods pose huge health risk

Cancer time bomb in your frig – will you stop eating it?

 GMO MARKET

GMO-free is fastest growing retail brand

Natural breakfast cereals loaded with pesicides and gmos- explosive scorecard reveals all

Whole Foods Market caves to Monsanto

GMO sales skyrocket

Many natural foods loaded with GMOs

How to avoid GMOs

How to avoid GMO foods

This could threaten the future of our entire food chain

Shopping for non-GMO foods

ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS

Is GMO grass the next environmental disaster?

GMO beets threaten native pollinators

One third of wildlife refuges use gm crops in southeast

GMO AGRICULTURE

Failure of Roundup

China sows seeds of GM crop growth

Impact of GM corn from food to fuel

Monsanto seeks corporate domination of world food supply

Modified corn seeds sow doubts

Scientists urge better seed access

POLITICS

White House pact with industry to push genetically engineered plants

USDA deregulates GMO alfalfa

Judge revokes approval of modified sugar beets

Monsanto – the worlds poster child for corporate manipulation and deceit

Michael Taylor is back to control “food safety” from the White House

POLITICAL ACTIVISM

California changing the US food landscape

Death blow to gmos

Breaking news California gmo labeling initiative is file

Stop illegal frankensugar

If you eat you better occupy Wall Street

Are Monsanto’s days numbered

Monsanto nation – taking down the Goliath

Genetically Engineered food in the race for market dominance between organic GMO – who is winning?

A moratorium on genetically manipulated GMO foods

Exclusive Lisa Mumm interview on Monsanto trial

Home Depot Roundup correspondence for Christmas

PHILOSOPHY

GMOS – philosophical issues of a thanoptic, death-delivery technology

Chilling and violent trends in the treatment of living organisms

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Everything you

need to know

about GMOs

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

Everything You HAVE TO KNOW about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods from Jeffrey Smith on Vimeo.

Keywords

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Death blow

to GMOs

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

(Healingtalks) The most significant breaking news on the GMOs  is the California people’s initiative to gather enough signatures to put this to a historical ballot which would require the labeling of GMOs in foods. Corrupt politicians representing the interests of corporations, not the people, have refused to enact such an initiative even though 90% of Californians support such an effort.

Pathway to Victory

This is the pathway to victory against GMOs, to deal a death blow to GMOs and restore sanity and integrity to our seeds and food crops.

Audio Interview

Naturalnews interviewed Ronnie Cummins from the Organic Consumers Association (www.OrganicConsumers.org), who is a key leader in advocating mandatory GMO labeling. His organization, among many others, is helping to get this initiative on the ballot in California in 2012.

Listen to the full interview with Ronnie Cummins on SoundCloud:
http://snd.sc/qPBFJk

Resources

• 50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods
• 10  Reasons to Avoid GMOs
• Six Short Videos – Everything You Need To Know About GMOs
• GMO Library
• Everything You Need To Know About GMOs
  

Breaking News:

California GMO labeling

initiative is filed

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

(Healingtalks) This week the grassroots Committee For the Right to Know, a wide-ranging coalition of consumer, public health and environmental organizations, food companies, and individuals submitted the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act to the State Attorney General for title and summary, prior to circulation as an initiative measure for the November 2012 election. This is part of a nationwide campaign to also raise consumer awareness and thereby reach a triggering a “tipping point” or sufficient rejection (approximately 5% of consumers) to have GMOs largely removed from the marketplace.

What the Right to Know GEFA Requires

The initiative would require genetically engineered foods (also known as genetically modified organisms, or GMOs) and foods containing GMO ingredients to be clearly labeled, similar to current labels with other nutritional information.

Genetically engineered food is usually plant or meat product that has had its DNA artificially altered in a lab with genes from other plants, animals, viruses or bacteria, in order to produce foreign compounds in that food. This genetic alteration is experimental, and is not found in nature.

Risks of GE Foods

The risk of genetically engineered foods is unclear, and unlike the strict safety evaluations required for the approval of new drugs, the safety of genetically engineered foods for human consumption has not been adequately tested, the group said. Recent studies show that genetically engineering food can create new, unintended toxic substances and increase allergies, cancer risks and other health problems, especially for children.

Experts Agree Labeling Is Necessary

Experts agree that by labeling genetically engineered food, we can help identify foods that cause health problems, the committee said.

“Because the FDA has failed to require labeling of GMO food, this initiative closes a critical loophole in food labeling law. It will allow Californians to choose what they buy and eat and will allow health professionals to track any potential adverse health impacts of these foods,” says Andy Kimbrell, Director of the Center for Food Safety.

Most Common GMO Traits

The two most common genetically engineered traits are the expression of an insecticide in the tissue of “Bt Corn” and the expression of a compound in “Roundup Ready Soy” which enables high doses of Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer to be sprayed while the plant survives.

As much as 85 percent of corn in the U.S. is genetically engineered. BT Corn is currntly regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency as an insecticide.

 Worldwide GMO Labeling Movement

Robyn O’Brien, author and founder of the Allergy Kids Foundation says, “I support labeling genetically engineered foods because allergy-sensitive people can exercise caution with essential information to make informed decisions about what they eat.” Fifty countries including the European Union and Japan have laws mandating that genetically engineered foods be labeled, but the United States does not have such a requirement.

Public opinion polls indicate that over 90 percent of California voters support the labeling of genetically engineered foods. Efforts to enact labeling laws in Congress and the California legislature have been blocked by big food and chemical company lobbyists. This measure will take the issue directly to the people to decide whether genetically engineered foods should be labeled.

“These genetically engineered foods have been allowed into our food supply without warning, and they aren’t labeled,” said Pamm Larry, founder of the grassroots movement and the Committee For the Right to Know. “The bottom line is Californians have a right to know what’s in the food we eat and feed our children. It’s time to send a strong, direct message to those who govern us, whether they be agency or elected, that we want genetically engineered foods labeled.”

 The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act was carefully and specifically written to avoid any unnecessary burden or cost to consumers or producers. California voters are expected to have the chance to vote on the initiative in November 2012.

The full text submitted to the attorney general can be read below.

Source: Lake County News  http://twitter.com/LakeCoNews,

November 2011 – California Right to Know Initiative

Video

• 50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods

• 10  Reasons to Avoid GMOs
  
• Six Short Videos – Everything You Need To Know About GMOs

GMO-Free Is

Fastest Growing

Retail Brand

According to a recent survey,   U.S. retailers are expanding their store brands and the fastest-growing brand making a health claim is “GMO-free.”

Nielsen’s Numbers

This labeling, according to Nielsen’s numbers, is up by 67% in 2009 with a sales growth of $60.2 million in that sector. In fact, healthy claims are tops in several categories, including “Gluten free” and bolstering Omega acids.

The consumer tide against genetically modified foods (GM or GMO) is growing. New labels reflect that rend. GMO foods have been linked to infertility, immune system damage and many agricultural hazards. Consumers are waking up to these facts.

New Certification of GMO-Free Products

Thousands of organic and natural food products are also now enrolled in the Non-GMO Project’s Product Verification Program (known as PVP). This is the nation’s first and largest system for testing of product standards against genetic modification. This project finds its verification label on some of the biggest retail names in the food industry.

As sentiment against the GMO seeds and products made from their crops grows, so too will the retail market backlash. Although government agencies like the Food and Drug Administration have refused to rule against GM foods, despite the evidence, the free market and consumer demand is turning the tide against them on its own.

As Shelly Roche of Bytestyle.tv says, “The great thing about this new report is that it shows how quickly the market responds when it sees a shift in consumer demand.” Health-conscious consumers are voting with their forks.

Resources:

1 – U.S. Healthy Eating Trends Part 4: Store Brands Expand Healthy Offerings by Tom Pirovano, Director of Industry Insights, Nielsen Co.

2 – Feature NaturalNews Articles on GMOs and http://www.naturalnews.com/027931_G…

3 – Non-GMO Project

4 – ‘GMO-free’ is fastest-growing retailer brand claim by Shelly Roche, Bytestyle.tv

Based on an article by Aaron Turpen  (AaronsEnvironMental.com) and (HiddenHealthScience.com).

Keywords: Genetically modified food, genetically modified foods, genetically modified organisms, GMOs, genetic modification, food politics

(Healingtalks) The recent destruction of the American people’s way of life began more than 30 years ago when the Reagan administration crafted deliberate policies that stopped enforcement of antitrust laws at the Department of Justice. This encouraged vast corporate mergers. It launched an assault on common sense government and its oversight.

Since that time, politicians  have undermined public welfare and embraced the radical notion of “free” markets to feed corporate greed, and without accountability.

Healthful Foods

You Should Never,

Ever Eat

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

(Healingtalks) There are two types of research regarding foods — independent science and corporate science. It’s not hard to decide which one to trust. Jeffrey Smith, featured in the video at the end of this article, is the executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology. His Campaign for Healthier Eating in America offers to create the tipping point of consumer rejection of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) to rid them from our food supply. In this short but important video, he points out some of the most glaring problems with scientific research, and that is the discrepancies you get depending on the source of the funding.

As Smith points out, Monsanto, one of the chief pla