Mercola lists foods he says are best avoided, among them genetically engineered crops, canned acidic foods, corn-fed beef and microwave popcorn, and argues that glyphosate in Roundup Ready crops locks up nutrients, cannot be washed off, and is suspected of causing genetic damage.
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Genetically modified foods, labeling and the debate around them.
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GMO
Watch Out: These Foods Seriously Mess With Your Health
Mercola summarises a report coordinated by Navdanya, the Center for Food Safety and others, which argues GM crops have raised no crop's yield, bred superweeds and superpests, and increased pesticide use. It advises avoiding processed foods and eating organic to dodge GM ingredients.
GMO
The Hidden Epidemic Destroying Your Gut Flora
Mercola interviews Don Huber, who says he found a new organism in genetically engineered animal feed that he links to infertility and miscarriage in livestock, connects it and glyphosate to crop 'sudden death syndrome', and argues GE plants can carry 80 to 90 percent less iron, manganese and zinc.
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Inspiring story shows shortcut to end GMOs - from Jeffrey Smith
Jeffrey Smith describes a San Francisco Greenfest talk where an audience that admitted barely trying to avoid GMOs committed to doing so within 11 minutes, after seeing photos of damaged organs in GM-fed rats and hearing how he says industry shapes and suppresses research.
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Avoid GMOs in Restaurants
A roundup of non-GMO items: farmer Phillip Geertson argues Roundup Ready alfalfa cost the U.S. seed industry its export markets after contamination showed up in Montana and Washington seed lots, and reports tie India’s rising farmer suicides to failed Bt cotton crops.
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Urgent: Throw These Cooking Oils in the Trash
A class-action lawsuit alleges ConAgra's Wesson canola, vegetable, corn and blended oils cannot be called "100% natural" because they contain genetically modified corn and soy. The piece notes that the natural label on processed food has no standard definition.
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The Surprising Truth About This Favorite Breakfast Food
A "100% Natural" label carries no restrictions and does not rule out pesticides, fumigants or genetically engineered ingredients, the piece argues, unlike USDA organic certification. Cornucopia Institute testing found high levels of GE ingredients in several cereals marketed as natural.
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Hundreds Rally in Washington; Monsanto's Bt Corn Failing; It's Raining Roundup!
Hundreds ended a 504-km march from the UN to the White House by demanding mandatory GM labeling. The newsletter also reports western rootworm beetles resistant to Monsanto's Bt corn in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and South Dakota, with the company's shares down nearly 4 percent.
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GMOs News from Jeffrey Smith
Jeffrey Smith's roundup: agronomist Michael McNeill reports Roundup-resistant weeds and more infertility and early abortion in livestock fed GM crops, Monsanto plans to sell GM sweet corn unlabeled, and Dow has filed a multi-herbicide-tolerant GM soybean for approval.
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10 Reasons to Avoid GMOs
Jeffrey Smith's list opens with the American Academy of Environmental Medicine's call for doctors to prescribe non-GMO diets, citing animal studies of organ damage and infertility, then argues GMO contamination is permanent because pollen and seed spread.
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'Healthy' Foods You Should Never, Ever Eat (comment)
Mercola introduces a video in which Jeffrey Smith contrasts corporate-funded and independent research on GM foods, arguing that Monsanto's safety studies lean on inappropriate control groups and the wrong statistical and detection methods.
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Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
Hungary, where GMO seeds are banned, ploughed under almost 1,000 acres of maize grown from genetically modified seed that reached farmers unknowingly; an official said pollen had not spread. Mercola ties this to US fields where Roundup-resistant superweeds are spreading.
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USDA abdicates GMO Oversight; Roundup killing butterflys; March to STOP GMOs!
Jeffrey Smith's newsletter reports that the USDA exempted Roundup Ready Kentucky bluegrass from regulation in an announcement timed for the July 4 weekend, and warns the decision opens a loophole for GM crops made without pest material such as bacteria or viruses.
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AGRI-MARK/CABOT “rBST-FREE” Misrepresentations Demand Consumer Education (pr)
A Vermont ruling found Agri-Mark, known to shoppers as Cabot Creamery, broke the state's consumer fraud act by selling products labelled rBST-free that were not. The Institute for Responsible Technology says the case typifies what buyers seeking non-GM food are up against.
Legal Actions
One of the Biggest Food Frauds Perpetrated on the American People
The Ninth Circuit let stand rulings that require the USDA to prepare a rigorous environmental review of Roundup Ready sugar beets. Challengers argued since 2008 that the crop would contaminate organic beets and chard and worsen pesticide use and the spread of resistant weeds.
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This Company Spends Over $5M a Year to Lobby U.S. Government to Make You Sick
Disclosure reports show Monsanto spent $1.4 million lobbying the federal government in the first quarter of 2011, down from $2.5 million a year earlier, mainly targeting Congress and the USDA over rules affecting genetically engineered crops such as Roundup Ready soybeans and alfalfa.
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Genetically Engineered Rice is a Trojan Horse: Misled by Bill Gates and Monsanto
The Gates Foundation has put $20 million more into golden rice, a genetically engineered crop whose project leader previously directed research at Monsanto. Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific calls it a Trojan horse for opening the region to patented GE seed.
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Reminder: Online Non-GMO Speaker Training with Jeffrey Smith begins June 14th
A reminder for Jeffrey Smith's four-session online Non-GMO Speaker Training, running June 14 through July 12 at $80 for individuals and $140 for couples. Participants get a scripted PowerPoint and reference list, practice presenting, and learn to organize local activist groups.
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