What is GMO food?

GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organism.  This is the process of genetically altering food.  I am not a scientist, but as I understand it:  basically, they take a strand of DNA and shoot material into it and see what sticks.  There is not a specific place where they insert the new material.  Rather it is changed at random, which suggests things may change that they didn't plan.  Once the DNA is changed, it is changed forever.  If you eat a food that has GMO, it becomes part of the bacteria in your intestines.  It will stay there for generations, being passed on to your children.  This has not been tested over time...WE ARE THE GUINEA PIGS!  As are our children and grandchildren.

There has been an increase in certain diseases in children.  Autism, 1 out of 150 has it.  Asthma, 1 in 11 has it.  Allergies, 1 in 4 children are affected.  The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America states that asthma and allergies affect 1 in 4 Americans.  There has been a 100% increase in asthma in the past 30 years.  The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology published a study in 2003 stating that the number of children with peanut allergies actually doubled between 1997 and 2002.  Now we cannot send a peanut butter sandwich to school...it used to be the classic school lunch!  Robin O'Brien states in her book, The Unhealthy Truth, "The dramatic increase in the number of allergies should serve as a warning to all of us that something about food has changed".  I AGREE!!!

So WHY do they want GMO foods?  The simple answer - isn't it ALWAYS about the money?  Some  well-known seeds are the "Round-up Ready" or "Bt corn"...they add  pesticides to the DNA so that the insects won't eat it.  This isn't just spraying the pesticide, which we could purposefully wash off, but this is inserting it into the genes of the plant...no way to wash it off!  Recently, the first animal, a GMO salmon was approved.  This introduces an eel gene so that the salmon grows huge and fast...ready for market.  What happens if it is introduced into the wild?  Will it make the true salmon endangered and then extinct?  These GMO plants and animals can be patented...so they cannot be reproduced.  They are great from a business or market value point of view.  They make money.

Some of the foods approved in the United States include:  corn, cotton, potatoes, tomatoes, soybeans, canola, sugar beets, rice, flax, squash/zucchini, papaya, chicory/radicchio, and salmon.  I encourage you to support the efforts to have these foods labeled as GMO.  We should know what we are eating!  Also, support foods labeled non-GMO or non-GMO project by purchasing them.  For more scientific information, look online at www.SeedsofDeception.com.  I also recommend you read Robin O'Brien's book, The Unhealthy Truth, which tells the story from a mother's point of view.