Why You Should Be Concerned About GMOs

While I don’t want to be a guinea pig, I don’t condemn all
GMO food out of hand. Starvation is pretty harsh also.

GMO’s are bad.think of it this way people,God designed our bodies and the food we were to consume,when people come in and alter this design,your body doesn’t now how to deal with the altered design of the food,and this leads to many health disorders,including breakdown immune,diabetes,cancer,mood and physical and physcological disorders…

This not right at all… Why mess with nature? Nature gives us nutrition in it’s natural state. Sure organic costs more than GMO but that’s why you get what you pay for!!! We are willing to pay more to benefit our health. There’s no need to change something that does just fine on it’s own!!

Albert Einstein: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years left to live.”
 
The whole point of the debate isn’t the amount of proof on either side right now, it is the lack of study. We don’t know the effect of these products and should have a choice before becoming a part of the study. It’s already out there and in our bellies. I try to eat completely organic, but honestly you never know. Contamination does happen and will continue to happen, unless GMOs are completely destroyed. Honestly, we are all eating the products already, so is there really a chance of having a fair study any way? Where would you get a control group? Even if you haven’t been contaminated by GMOs you may be exposed to their chemical cousins. If we were all tested right now, every one of us would have heavy metals, PCBs, and other toxins in our systems. Our environment is beyond toxic.
 
Some of you that keep saying things about these studies showing increased crops, or health benefit…Do you really think the FDA, USDA, EPA, and Monsanto are going to tell you the truth? Look it up, please. They are the same group. The same men and women that work for Monsanto and other criminal companies are running these government agencies. These agencies have all been described as “revolving doors”. All you have to do is look at the history of employment for any of these guys and you’ll see the pattern.
 
There are 40 preventable diseases killing us right now. They could all be prevented by simple changes in diet and nutrition. Did you know that your diet only needs to be 5% protein to sustain you? That protein can come from several sources, including potatoes, beans and rice, and a well balanced variety of raw fruits and vegetables. Americans are dying of excess protein and lack of vitamins and minerals. Just to further this point, any of you know how many people have died due to suspected vitamin or mineral overdose in the last twenty years? 11. You know how many people die each year due to heart disease and diebetes? 231,404 deaths in 2007 were linked to or caused by diebetes. In 2008, the deaths of 419,730 women were directly linked to cardiovascular disease. How about tobacco use? Thirteen percent of overall mortality in 2008. Starving people have compromised livers and kidneys. The last thing you should give to a starving child would be a steak. In Africa, the children aren’t dying from lack of protein. They’re dying from lack of food, period. So how about taking all that wonderful corn and soy we produce and instead of feeding it to American and European livestock, we feed it to those starving babies? We would have to cut meat and dairy consumption down, but it would save human lives (if that’s really what you’re concerned about, as I am) on both sides.
 
Also, the benefits of GM crops are few. BT crops “require no or less” pesticide because the plants have been given the ability to produce it. This has created the new porblem of BT resistant pests that require even more pesticide than convetional growing. Some Indian farmers are now left with few options to protect their crops. Pesticides and fertilizer are expensive, and the majority of “developing” farmers can’t afford it. They buy their GM seeds and chemicals on credit. Usually, they use their land as collateral. If the crops fail – as they often do without exact amounts of chemicals- the “developing” farmers lose everything. Over 200,000 farmers in India have commited suicide due to this issue. Most by drinking the “completely harmless to humans” Roudup they couldn’t afford. Also, they have little option of returning to their heirloom varieties, should they decide to leave the GM market. Monsanto owns 90% of the seed industry right now. The few companies that are left typically sell similar products. Over a thousand varieties of rice and several hundred varieties of other traditional crops have been completely lost due to the GM industry. This means that if the GM crops continue to fail, the farmers will be left with no tolerant varieties, as biodiversity has been greatly reduced.
 
Another point – Drought resistant varieties completely and utterly fail under normal conditions. They don’t have the abilty to flex as natural heirloom varieties do. So, farmers investing everything in GM weather tolerant crops would still starve, should nature take its course.
 
Laws are not being passed to protect farmers because of “revolving door” agencies. Why would they rule against their past and future employers? Why would they protect the three percent of American families that still farm? Or the general public for that matter… That would require honoring their oathes and a serious pay cut.
 
ToxPath: As a pathologist you should realize that a great many toxins in our enviroment are cumulative. If these toxins weren’t an issue, you wouldn’t have a 30 year career. If people weren’t becoming ill and didn’t require your expertise, you wouldn’t be laughing your way to the bank. You wouldn’t be laughing at all.
 
We weren’t designed to eat “raw meat and grasses”. If you ate raw meat and grass – you would fall ill. If the bacteria and microorganisms didn’t kill you, the hit to your liver and kidneys would. Besides, humans can’t digest grass. Don’t believe me? Look at what happened to the Irish during the great potatoe famine. We can however digest grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, and some flowers. Just because we CAN digest meat (only when cooked, usually) doesn’t mean we are designed to. It means we evolved to ingest an item that was easier to catch or more common. We aren’t carnivores – we’re simply opportunists.
 
Pretty much harmless you say… Huh, I thought cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and premature death were all pretty harmful. If GMOs cause these conditions in just about every creature we feed them to, chances are they’ll do it to us too. We just wouldn’t be able to peg it down to the GMOs, not with all the other sludge being dumping on us. And that’s the sick beauty of it, don’t you think? No one would know.
 
Bees, bats, birds, and butterfiles are all dying and yet some of you are still trying to deny anything that contradicts your payroll. Actually, a species goes extict every week or so but this doesn’t have any correlation what-so-ever with human “growth” or “development”. No, it’s just nature taking it’s course. What will happen when the bees are gone? Who will pollinate our food? What will we eat after the topsoil blows away in the name of “development”? I’m sure science will run right to the rescue with some other carncinogenic “cure”.
 
By the way, the reason that organic produce costs more isn’t that it has a lower yeild. It’s that it takes more man power to produce. You’re paying someone else to weed the garden, since they aren’t relying on neurotoxins. Also, organic farmers make more on average than conventional GMO farmers… Which should be a good thing considering that fact that so many “American Farming Families” are being crushed with foreclosures. So how about we do everyone a favor? Put people to work by employing them in the organic industry, and have real food for everyone else? It would save the economy, put a plug in the draining food and water supply, and feed the hungry. Not to mention the fact that we could stop deforestation via GMO soy and corn. Then we would all breath just a tad easier.