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Panacea-BOCAF has listed on the sustainable development page organization for organic new menus and organic farmed produce which can help play a role in counter posing the negative health effects of GM foods.
There still needs to be legislation and education in this equasion to rid our selfs of the dangers of genetically modified food.Therfore a holistic soluton lies in the legal eradification, education and perservation of the Bio - diversity along with a EDUCATED public choice for organically farmed produce. GM food is not only CRITICAL health issue , it is a civil rights issue which has been defamatory to many famers.
Many independent documentaries have shown the corporate company Monsanto's greed patenting whole species of life forms, creating GMO crops that pose hazards to human health, threatening farmers with lawsuits if one of their patented gene sequences makes it into their crops, and much, much more.
Monsanto is an UNREGULATED company that has brought us everything from Agent Orange to DDT to Aspartame, and now they control of all the vegetables on your kitchen table. Independent documentaries have shown alarming facts and with out them the counter productive health effects would be left un investigated.
The REAL Reasons You Want to Avoid Genetically Modified Foods
In this lecture, Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception, summarizes the contents of his book, which explains how genetically modified foods cause health problems, and their potential for creating a vast array of unforeseen and surprising illnesses. He also sheds light on how the corruption within the U.S. government, the FDA, and the GMO industry has allowed, and perpetuated, the cover-up.
Genetically Modified Food - Panacea or poison
A very interesting documentary on genetically engineer food or GE, GMO. GE food raise serious concern about its safety because it is not properly regulated in North America yet. Primary research on rats feed with GE food show modifications to their internal organs. WE must show to our government that we don't want GE food. - BUY ORGANIC FOOD - is the best way to protect ourself and give money to small farmers who produce GMO free food and not Mossanto that produce GE crops and the terminator gene. Get information about organic food over here:
Genetically Modified Food or Organic: Do We Have to Choose?
Learn more about the facts and the fiction about genetically modified food with UCSD's Maarten Chrispeels
Google video -The Future of Food: What Every Person Should Know
What every person know about the food they ingest. The documentary "The Future of Food" changed the way we think about food. Web site.
John Mackey & Michael Pollan's Future of Food Discussion
John Mackey and Michael Pollan discuss the future of food at Whole Foods Market and the organic food industry.
Life running out of control - Genetically Modified Organisms
In the mid-1980s, scientists, with the help of biotechnology, thought they had found the key to mastering the planet, and especially its living organisms. Suddenly, everything seemed possible!
Twenty years later the filmmakers embark on a global journey to explore the effects of the ongoing experiments in the genetic manipulation of plants, animals and human beings.
Some of the results have not been pretty.
* Due to a disastrous crop of genetically modified cotton many Indian farmers face ruin, and choose instead to sell one of their kidneys or commit suicide.
* In Canada genetically modified canola seeds blow onto the fields of neighboring organic farms, thus making organic certification of those farmers' crops impossible.
* The Icelandic parliament sells the entire gene pool of its population to a private company which intends to turn over the data at a profit to the pharmaceutical industry and insurance companies.
* The Human Genome Diversity Project collects blood, hair and saliva samples from 700 groups of people judged to be in danger of extinction on the pretext of preventive health care. The gene samples find their way into the laboratories of industry to provide the basis for valuable patents.
Worldwide only a handful of idealistic scientists are defying industry, doing independent research on the effects of transgenic animals and plants on the environment and our health when we consume genetically modified food.
This leads to the conclusion that not only does genetic engineering pose a serious scientific problem, it also challenges fundamental democratic principles, and deserves the widest possible public discussion.
The Truth About Genetically Modified Foods
Once genetic material has been released into the environment it cannot be recalled. The likelihood of a major problem may, as some people suggest, be slight, but if something does go badly wrong we will be faced with the problem of clearing up a kind of pollution which is self-perpetuating. I am not convinced that anyone has the first idea of how this could be done, or indeed who would have to pay.
'We are told that GM crops will require less use of agro-chemicals. Even if this is true, it is certainly not the whole story. What it fails to take into account is the total ecological and social impact of the farming system. For example, most of the GM plants marketed so far contain genes from bacteria which make them resistant to a broad spectrum weedkiller available from the same manufacturer.When the crop is sprayed with this weedkiller, every other plant in the field is killed. The result is an essentially sterile field, providing neither food nor habitat for wildlife.
These GM crop plants are capable of interbreeding with their wild relatives, creating new weeds with built-in resistance to the weedkiller, and of contaminating other crops. Modified genes from a crop of GM rape were found to have spread into a conventional crop more than a mile away. The result is that both conventional and organic crops are under threat, and the threat is one-way.
GM crop plants are also being developed to produce their own pesticide. This is predicted to cause the rapid appearance of resistant insects. Worse still, such pesticide-producing plants have already been shown to kill some beneficial predator insects as well as pests.
To give just two examples, inserting a gene from a snowdrop into a potato made the potato resistant to greenfly, but also killed the ladybirds feeding on the greenfly. And lacewings, a natural predator of the corn borer and food for farmland birds, died when fed on pest insects raised on GM maize.
We are also told that GM techniques will help to 'feed the world'. This is a fundamental concern to all of us. But will the companies controlling these techniques ever be able to achieve what they would regard as a sufficient return from selling their products to the world's poorest people? Nor do I believe that the basic problem is always so simple.
Where the problem is lack of food, rather than lack of money to buy food, there may be better ways of achieving the same ends. Recent research has shown, for example, that yields from some traditional farming systems can be doubled, and even trebled, through techniques that conserve natural resources while making the best use of labour and management skills. " Source
While scientific progress on molecular biology has a great potential to increase our understanding of nature and provide new medical tools, it should not be used as justification to turn the environment into a giant genetic experiment by commercial interests. The biodiversity and environmental integrity of the world's food supply is too important to our survival to be put at risk.
Genetic engineering enables scientists to create plants, animals and micro-organisms by manipulating genes in a way that does not occur naturally.These genetically modified organisms (GMO) can spread through nature and interbreed with natural organisms, thereby contaminating non 'GE' environments and future generations in an unforeseeable and uncontrollable way.Their release is 'genetic pollution' and is a major threat because GMOs cannot be recalled once released into the environment.
Because of commercial interests, the public is being denied the right to know about GE ingredients in the food chain, and therefore losing the right to avoid them despite the presence of labelling laws in certain countries.Biological diversity must be protected and respected as the global heritage of humankind, and one of our world's fundamental keys to survival.
Governments are attempting to address the threat of GE with international regulations such as the Biosafety Protocol.
We believe:GMOs should not be released into the environment as there is not adequate scientific understanding of their impact on the environment and human health.
We advocate immediate interim measures such as labelling of GE ingredients, and the segregation of genetically engineered crops and seeds from conventional ones.We also oppose all patents on plants, animals and humans, as well as patents on their genes. Life is not an industrial commodity. When we force life forms and our world's food supply to conform to human economic models rather than their natural ones, we do so at our own peril.
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GM food requires independent tests: The Western Australian Minister for Food, Kim Chance, says genetically modified (GM) foods need to be independently tested before they are approved for consumption in Australia.Mr Chance says Food Standards Australia and New Zealand currently relies on data supplied by GM companies to determine if a food is safe, instead of conducting its own analysis.
A study by two French universities has found rats fed on GM corn had stunted growth and developed kidney and liver problems.Mr Chance says it is disturbing Australian people may have consumed the product in imported foods like corn chips and tacos.
"For us to have to rely on the data which is provided by people who have a commercial reason for supplying that data or commercial interest in the matter isn't good enough," he said.
Further from Supermarket Secrets:
How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenised, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialise in?
In a two-part programme, journalist Jane Moore investigates how supermarkets have affected the food on our plates and reveals the tell-tale signs that the food we buy may not have been grown in the way we think.
Using a combination of undercover filming and scientific analysis, Supermarket Secrets investigates whether the food on supermarket shelves is really as good as it looks, whether prices are as good as they seem and what happens behind the scenes in the production of supermarket food.
The first of the two programme features secret filming which uncovers the horrific conditions inside a chicken broiler house preparing chickens for a company which supplies all the major supermarkets. One study carried out by a professor from Cambridge University revealed that 82% of chickens bought in supermarkets had hockburns – a tell-tale sign of poor animal welfare caused by sitting in litter. Jane Moore shows how to examine chickens for hockburns.
The programme also examines why chickens nowadays have more fat and less protein and why it is vitally important to read the ingredients lists on healthy option meals. Also, top chef Raymond Blanc puts some supermarket 'ready meals' to the taste test.
Programme two meets the organic potato farmer who feeds much of his crop to his cows because, he says, the supermarkets deem his produce to be insufficiently cosmetically pleasing.
The film also hears from a toxicologist about the levels of pesticide residues in supermarket fresh produce; reveals how dairy cattle are now factory farmed and why packaged fruit and vegetables from your local supermarket may be more expensive that you think – and not as good for you.With contributions from leading experts including Joanna Blythman, Professor Tim Lang, Dr Vyvyan Howard and Felicity Lawrence.
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In the mean time the following links will help you navigate around the hidden toxic foods in your supermarket. Panacea will be adding a comprehensive visual food guide to this page at a later date.
Your Food May Be Causing You Brain Damage - Simple Truth About Excitotoxins
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Food Standards Australia New Zealand
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Two websites which provide extensive education on the dangers of Genetically Modified foods - which will likely cause many cancers, and are a huge disaster that needs to be stopped. Learn what you can do to stop this craziness.
The campaign focuses on what to do. Seeds of deception focuses on what's wrong with genetically modifying food.
Google video search - genetically modified foods
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