Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables show that in 2007, ambassador to France Craig Stapleton, alarmed by France's ban on Monsanto's GM corn, urged retaliation to cause "some pain" across the EU. Mercola treats this as proof Washington has been advancing Monsanto's goals.
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GMO
Genetically modified foods, labeling and the debate around them.
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Are YOU a GMO Dragon Slayer?
The writer argues that consumer rejection is the biotech industry's weak point, citing Europe's 1999 turnaround, and lists campaign wins against GM rice, wheat and bovine growth hormone as the industry pushes GM alfalfa, sugar beets and fish in the US.
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GMOs in Food
A May 2010 tally of genetically modified crops in the US — soy at 91%, sugar beets 90%, canola 88%, corn 85%, cotton 71% — plus the derived ingredients, additives and animal products that may carry GM material, and the packaged foods likely to contain them.
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GMO: Health Risks
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine points to animal studies tying GM food to infertility, immune problems and organ changes, and asks doctors to advise patients to avoid it. The piece says political appointees shaped the FDA's 1992 no-testing policy over scientists' warnings.
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GMO: Higher Risks for Children
An argument that children face the greatest risk from GM foods: fast-developing bodies, three to four times the allergy rate of adults, and diets heavier in corn. It cites independent feeding studies in which young rats showed immune, digestive and organ damage after 10 days.
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Celebrating our National Non-GMO Movement - Newsletter from Jeffrey Smith
A Thanksgiving newsletter in which Jeffrey Smith recounts a decade campaigning against genetically modified food, including time with two Chicago-area doctors who prescribe non-GMO diets and patients who told him chronic symptoms eased after they changed what they ate.
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Newsletter from ResponsibleTechnology.org - Thank You for a Great Year!
A year-end letter from ResponsibleTechnology.org thanking supporters: Mercola.com emailed its GMO articles to more than 1.5 million homes during Non-GMO Month, NaturalNews pledged to match up to $10,000 in donations, and nearly 200 people will finish its speaker training by year's end.
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Genetically Modified Soy Diets Lead to Ovary and Uterus Changes in Rats
Female rats fed GM soy for 15 months showed signs of early ovulation and corpus luteum formation, extra cells in the uterine lining and dilated glands, compared with rats fed organic soy or none, a Brazilian study in The Anatomical Record found.
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This Toxic Food is BANNED in Europe - But They're Treating us Like Boneheads
Mercola interviews Jeffrey Smith of the Institute for Responsible Technology ahead of Non-GMO Day on October 10, arguing US consumers can push genetically modified foods off the market as Europe did, through education rather than legislation. Some 400 retail stores back the campaign.
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If You Love Eating Fish - Now is the Time to Stop This Health Hazard
After 11 hours of deliberation, the FDA postponed its decision on AquaBounty's genetically modified salmon, leaving open both whether it will be approved and whether it would have to be labeled as genetically modified.
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This Supermarket "Health Food" Killed These Baby Rats in Three Weeks
Jeffrey Smith recounts how Arpad Pusztai, hired to design the UK's GMO safety testing, found rats fed GM potatoes developed pre-cancerous cell growth, smaller organs and damaged immune systems within 10 days. He was fired days after discussing his concerns on television.
Biological
If You Find Problems with Genetically Modified Foods... Watch Out!
Jeffrey Smith recounts how biologist Arpad Pusztai, hired to design EU safety tests for GMOs, fed GM potatoes to rats and reported pre-cancerous cell growth and organ damage within 10 days. Days after discussing his concerns on TV, he was fired and his team dismantled.
Politics
Has FDA Already Decided About Genetically Engineered Salmon?
The FDA says it has not decided on AquAdvantage salmon, but its invited speakers at the hearings promoted aquaculture and declared the fish poses no additional risk. The engineered salmon carries a chinook growth hormone gene and reaches full size in 18 months instead of three years.
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Genetically Engineered Soybeans May Cause Allergies
Jeffrey Smith argues genetically modified soy is feeding the rise in food allergies, citing a 1999 York Laboratory finding that soy reactions in the UK jumped 50 percent in a year as GM imports arrived, and a soybean carrying a Brazil nut gene that triggered reactions and was never marketed.
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Refined Foods are Bad, But These May Be Far Worse
The piece alleges biotech firms bought and pressured officials to clear GM crops, citing payments in Indonesia, a doctored report in India and a threat in Mexico, and argues the FDA waved the crops through as “generally recognized as safe” rather than as food additives.
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GM Crop Use Makes Minor Pests a Major Problem
Mercola cites Nature reporting that mirid bugs, previously minor pests in northern China, have increased 12-fold since 1997 as Bt cotton spread past 4 million hectares, and are now the region's main pest. He also notes at least 10 Roundup-resistant weed species across 22 states.
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Warning: This Common Food Causes Devastating Offspring Defects in New Research Study
In an interview, Jeffrey Smith discusses unpublished Russian research reported to have found hamsters fed GM soy sterile by the third generation. Dr. Mercola adds his own view that animals offered a choice avoid GMO feed. The findings had not yet been published.
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Genetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility, Infant Mortality
Russian biologist Alexey Surov reports that hamsters fed Monsanto's GM soy across three generations grew more slowly, lost pups at a high rate and, by the third generation, mostly stopped reproducing, with some growing hair inside their mouths. The study had not yet been published.
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