Mercola profiles Jeffrey Smith's documentary Genetic Roulette on the health risks of genetically engineered food, alongside figures on American illness: autism in one in 88 children, type 2 diabetes up 176% from 1980 to 2010, celiac disease four times more common.
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Genetically modified foods, labeling and the debate around them.
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Decade-Long Feeding Study Reveals Significant Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods
Mercola reports Norwegian feeding experiments run over 10 years in which rats, mice, pigs and salmon fed genetically engineered Bt corn ate more, got fatter and digested proteins less well, with changes to the micro-structure of their intestines and to immune function.
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"Monsanto Rider" Snuck into 2012 Farm Bill Includes Big Giveaways and Reduces Oversight
The House Agriculture Committee's Farm Bill carries what critics call the Monsanto Rider, which would loosen rules on new genetically engineered crops, shorten USDA review and stop courts halting GMO sales during appeals. Rep. Peter DeFazio offered an amendment to kill it.
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Doctors Prescribe Non-GMO Diets; Remarkable Recoveries Result
Jeffrey Smith reports that patients who followed doctors' advice to drop GMOs describe improvements in allergies, asthma, digestive disorders, arthritis and anxiety. Internist Emily Lindner says gut and mood symptoms lift within days, with full results in four to six weeks.
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This "Invisible Food" Contains Hidden Allergens (And Can Sabotage Your Health)
Dr. Mercola summarises Seeds of Freedom, a film about seed patenting, arguing that patented genetically engineered seeds stop farmers saving and trading seed and that GE crops have not delivered the higher yields or reduced herbicide use promised.
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Known to Kill Cows, Castrate Wildlife, Induce Spontaneous Abortion in Lab Rats... And it's Likely in Your Water
A German farmer whose 65 cows died after eating Syngenta's Bt 176 corn has filed criminal charges, alleging the company withheld a feeding trial in which four cows died in two days and never registered the results. He puts his losses above 500,000 euros.
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NEW Findings: A Surprising Potential Culprit Behind Arthritis, Bowel Disorders, MS, and Allergies
The report GMO Myths and Truths concludes that the scientific evidence does not support safety and yield claims for genetically engineered foods, naming three possible sources of harm and citing Russian findings of growth and fertility problems in animals fed GM feed.
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Top 10 GMO (genetically modified organism) foods to avoid
A list of genetically modified or heavily altered foods to avoid, covering tomatoes engineered for a month-long shelf life, Bt cotton, canola, dairy from cows given growth hormones and corn. Aspartame is included, though the piece notes it is not a GMO.
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Opting for This "Cheaper Food" Could Make You Age Faster
The California Right to Know campaign delivered 1 million signatures to put a genetically engineered food labeling measure on the November 6 ballot. Two cited studies put labeling's cost at roughly 0.01 percent of food prices, against industry warnings of sharply higher prices.
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The Dramatic New Rule Change for Genetically Engineered Foods
New USDA rules will roughly halve the review time for genetically engineered crops, to about 13 months for new versions of existing technologies and 16 months for new ones, partly by opening public comment earlier. A pilot also lets biotech firms run their own environmental assessments.
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Why is this Organic Food Stuffed With Toxic Solvents?
Dr. Mercola reports that Martek's DHA and ARA additives, now in infant formulas including some carrying the USDA Organic seal, are extracted from algae and fungus using hexane and made with recombinant DNA techniques — processes normally barred from organic products.
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Thanks to you . . . Monsanto knows.
A thank-you letter from Organic Consumers Association director Ronnie Cummins to donors who funded the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act ballot campaign, with a further appeal for money before the November 6 vote.
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Eating This Common Food Could Damage Your Kidneys
Mercola reports that corn rootworm has evolved resistance to a gene in engineered corn, that 22 corn-pest experts have asked the EPA to act, and that a study found low doses of Bt CryA1b and Roundup killed human kidney cells, with glyphosate at 57.2 ppm killing half.
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The buzz about genetically engineered foods is getting stronger
A fundraising letter from the Environmental Working Group thanking the 100,000 people who signed its petition for labeling of genetically engineered foods, promising to add GE information to its Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, and asking for $65,000 by March 31.
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Label genetically engineered foods!
EWG urges readers to sign the Just Label It petition to the FDA before its March 27 deadline, noting more than 84,000 supporters have signed, that 92 percent of Americans want genetically engineered foods labeled, and that over 40 countries already require it.
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Booted Out of Germany - the Ignorance that Could Destroy Your Health
German resistance to genetically engineered crops, which one report puts at 75 percent of the public, pushed BASF to move its plant science headquarters to Raleigh, North Carolina. Mercola reads it as proof that public opinion works and presses for GE labelling in the US.
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The Worst of Both Worlds -- Genetically Engineered Goats to Produce New Vaccine
Texas A&M researchers are engineering goats to carry a malaria vaccine in their milk, aiming to vaccinate children who drink it. Mercola warns such animals could reach the food supply and argues nutrition, clean water and sanitation deserve the attention instead.
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GMO Labeling: The No. 1 Reason to Donate Today
A fundraising appeal from the Organic Consumers Fund seeking $150,000 to pay signature gatherers for the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, which cites warnings that GE foods harm health and says 75 to 80 percent of processed foods contain GMOs.
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