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Category: > Health > Health and Environmental Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods

Health and Environmental Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods

Jun 17, 2013 Carly Fraser Save For Later Print

Last Updated: Apr 10, 2020

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The hazards of genetically engineered foods have had people fighting to get their foods labelled. You might have heard recently that President Obama signed the spending bill HR 933 into law, which was mostly concerned with the threat of government shutdown. Buried in the fine print of this law (in Section 735) was the Farmer Assurance Provision (in other words, “the Monsanto Protection Act”) which prevents federal courts from being able to stall sales or planting of genetically modified foods (GMOs) or genetically engineered (GE) seeds.

This bill states that even if future research finds GMO or GE seeds to cause significant health problems like cancer and other disease and illnesses, that the federal courts can do nothing about it, and will not have the power to stop their spread, use or sales.

Genetically engineered foods are toxic to humans. Most of the plants that humans consume produce toxins at low enough levels that they do not produce any adverse health effects – however, with Monsanto and inserting exotic genes into plants could lead it to produce toxins at higher levels that are dangerous to humans. This has been observed in potatoes conventionally bred for increased disease resistance and produce incredibly toxic, high levels of glycoalkaloids. GMOs also have a much lower nutritional value than their traditional counterparts, by making the nutrients unavailable or indigestible to humans. Studies have shown that strains of genetically modified soybeans produced lower levels of phytoestrogen compounds, which are believed to protect against heart disease and cancer.

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GMOs not only cause health problems, but they also reinforce genetic homogeneity and promote large scale monocultures which contributes to the decline in biodiversity and increases vulnerability of crops to climate change, pests and diseases. The impact of GMOs on biodiversity is also seen in the development of superweeds and superbugs since the widespread use of single herbicides and pesticides lead to resistance in the pest community. The unregulated use of glyphosate-resistant crop systems has triggered an epidemic of glyphosate-resistant weeds which have infested over 10 million acres.

Here is a simple, printable list (original from The Ascending Star Seed Blog) of companies that use Monsanto products. By making the informed choice of not purchasing from these companies you are ensuring the health of yourself and your family, as well as making it clear that you do not want GMO products in your food.

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Filed Under: GMOs, Health Tagged With: GMO, health, pesticides

Carly Fraser

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Carly Fraser has her BSc (Hons.) Degree in Neuroscience, and is the owner and founder at Live Love Fruit. She currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with a determined life mission to help inspire and motivate individuals to critically think about what they put in their bodies and to find balance through nutrition and lifestyle. She has helped hundreds of thousands of individuals to re-connect with their bodies and learn self-love through proper eating habits and natural living. She loves to do yoga, dance, and immerse herself in nature.

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Comments

  1. Heidi says

    Jun 17, 2013 at 7:11 pm

    Would love to share this on FB!

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    • Carly Fraser says

      Jun 18, 2013 at 12:24 am

      Whoops sorry! Now you can! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Slove says

    Jun 18, 2013 at 3:35 am

    Is there a list of companies that don’t use mansanto?

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    • Carly Fraser says

      Jun 18, 2013 at 1:38 pm

      I will be posting this sometime soon! Stay tuned 🙂

      Reply
  3. Anabanana says

    Jun 27, 2013 at 4:18 pm

    Hi Slove, here’s the website of Non-Monsanto companies http://occupymonsanto360.org/blog/monsanto-free-seed-companies/

    Reply
  4. rainier says

    Aug 12, 2013 at 1:09 am

    It’s all about profit profit and profit. Profiteers creed is no matter what the consequence for as long as there is money in it. These profiteers are not human beings. They belong to . . . .

    Reply

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