Comments on: The GMO Tipping Point

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:37:35 +0000

I wouldn’t listen to the misinformation of the dairy industry that post to this blog. They have a vested interest in covering up the truth.

If you want to drink milk, make sure it is from a certified organic farm with pastured (free range, grass fed,not GMO grain-fed) cows. Look for the USDA certified organic seal- such milk is always free of growth hormones rbST and rbGH. Some farms even welcome visitors. If you get a chance, go & visit.

If you choose to eat meat, make sure you buy it from a reputable farm that pastures the animals (grass fed & finished) and does not feed them downer animals or GMO grains or GMO soy (esp. poultry, which are usually fed GMO soy). Call the farm, find out who owns it and what their policies are. Some farms will even let you visit. Or buy wild meat (note- if buying wild boar, be certain it was sourced from America not Europe, where some wild boar suffer from radiation contamination from Chernobyl).

In the meantime, we can stop eating processed foods,or at least reduce our consumption. We must call & e-mail companies that use GMO’s in their food and gardening supplies- i.e. GMO cottonseed meal, GMO soybean meal, poultry & cow manure (from factory farms where animals are drugged & fed GMOs). Kelp fertilizer and bat/ seabird guano are excellent substitutes.

Ultimately, the thing that will make the biggest difference is for us to stop spending our money on products that poison us. And be wary of Big Agra (Dean Foods, Con Agra, Horizon Foods, Colgate, Pepsi, Coke, etc.) marketing ‘organic’ foods. They use a lot of deceptive marketing and do not have the best standards. Just do a quick google search and you will see what I mean. Stick with the smaller, ethical suppliers of organic foods.

To paraphrase Kevin Gianni, ‘Together we can change the state of the world one dollar at a time’.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:27:13 +0000

Answers below
Q. IS THE SWEET CORN THAT WE GET IN THE GROCERY STORE A GM FOOD?

A. A small percentage of sweet corn is GMO, yes.

Q. WHY WAS THE GM POTATO WITHDRAWN FROM THE U.S. MARKET?

A. McDonalds and Burger King rejected it.

Q. WHY WAS THE FLAVOR SAVER TOMATO WITHDRAWN FROM THE MARKET?

A. It tasted bad.

Q. IS SOYA IN INDIA GM?

A. India imports US GM soy for oil. They don’t grow it.

By: Rosemene Eustache

Rosemene Eustache — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:08:28 +0000

I thank you with all my heart for this wonderful sacrificial work you do in informing us about GMO. Like the Evangelical Church leaders translate it, it is “God Moves Over. Thank you again and may God bless you and help you forwarding your search for us.

Thanks.

By: SchoolGrants

SchoolGrants — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:14:55 +0000

I have to agree with eveything Mellissa has said.

By: UDIT SHAH

UDIT SHAH — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:00:30 +0000

IS THE SWEET CORN THAT WE GET IN THE GROCERY STORE A GM FOOD?

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS SUCH AS:
1. WHY WAS THE GM POTATO WITHDRAWN FROM THE U.S. MARKET?
2. WHY WAS THE FLAVOR SAVER TOMATO WITHDRAWN FROM THE MARKET?
3. IS SOYA IN INDIA GM?

I would greatly appreciate getting my questions answered.

UDIT SHAH
WINDSOR, CANADA

By: Valerie

Valerie — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:34:16 +0000

When Nutrasweet (Aspartame) was first marketed, I was a naive 22 year-old. I thought, “great, I can finall have a decent tasting diet soda!” Well- I immediatly was in bed, with a killer migrane. A few days later, I tried an experiment (I was a newly minted biochemist)- I stopped drinking Crystal Light. Within 72 hours, I felt GOOD, again! So- try a glass of aspartame-laced lemonade- back in bed!! In the 25+ years since, I have on occasion, ACCIDENTALLY, sampled a drink with Nutrasweet- ALWAYS with the same outcome! This stuff is (literally) poison! I can definitly say that, because I AM A CHEMIST! I now try to grow as much of my own families food as possible- including raising chickens and rabbitts. No-one, in my household, is unhealthy, or overweight!

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:52:40 +0000

Tim, I’m glad you “rambled”! These are the testimonies people need to hear. I will share it with others. I think my entire family is now suffering a variety of health problems due to GMOs, and we are taking steps to eliminate them, as hard as that may be, before it’s too late.
-Mary

By: Marlene Nelson

Marlene Nelson — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:03:47 +0000

I came to America in January 2003 and I use to eat the food here without restriction and I ended up with alergies.

Now knowing about GMO I refuse to eat out and in people’s house. I try so hard to eat only organic food, specially potato, tomato, corn, soy, papaya and any other industrialized food that has any gmo.

But I have been concerned even to consume organic since I read in the New York Times on the business section that some producers or processors have been selling conventional products claiming they were organic.

How can we protect ourselves against this? I am getting to a point where I am afraid to eat anything in this country. What can we do about this???

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:15:51 +0000

Mellissa I agree with you 100%

By: Timothy R. Cate

Timothy R. Cate — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:20:40 +0000

I had mysterious itchy sores on only one leg, reoccurring sinus infections treated with 3 antibiotics and doctors said I would have to have them scraped! I had a painful neck after eating from ear to collar bone and a pouch of fluid appeared on the side of my neck near my collar bone. At night after meals I had a tightening around my neck like I was being strangled! Only Benedryl would help me relax and breathe again! I was diagnosed with asthma and couldn’t get deep breaths. Lots of doctor visits and medications. I went for $3,000 worth of allergy testing over 75 pin prick tests. I was so desperate I went to the internet and found articles about fructose corn syrup hazards (GMO). I quit Pepsi and all pop (I was a big consumer) — And I felt better! Then my
research led to Jeffrey Smith and I read his Seeds of Deception book and Genetic Roulette books, learned from the Center For Food Safety and Rima Laibow and General Bert Stubblebine! What a shock this was me and it was what was happening to me! I eliminated all GMOs –wicked hard to do as nearly all grocery items are polluted! We cook from scratch with only fresh or Certified Organic food, and use Virgin Olive Oil, Spectrum Palm Oil to Replace Shortening, wild caught fish, range fed chickens, no red meat — Even pork is a killer! Replaced Baking Powder and many GMO baking ingredients. Now I have found that they are sneaking GMO citric acid into all tomato products, even many Organic! Soy Lecithin everywhere! I send to Eden Foods for terrific pasta, pizza sauce, and tomato products! Guess what! I’m cured! No more sinus infections, found out the neck problems are toxic GMO effects on my Lymph Nodes. My sores are subsiding– doctors thought I had been exposed to chemicals. It was the GMO changing my gut bacteria to produce Round Up even after I stopped the GMO foods! It has been 1 year 3 months since I quit GMOs and some symptoms are still subsiding. NO MORE DOCTOR VISITS! My wife is another story. She had breast cancer, Chemo, Radiation — caused by Aspartame! I have proof. Sorry to ramble but this is real!
-Tim