I recently watched Jeffrey Smith’s new documentary, “Genetic Roulette“, an eye-opening film created to educate the world about the dangers of GMOs. Jeffrey Smith is the founder of the Institute for Responsible Technology and author of several best selling books on this issue. For those of you who have heard the term but aren’t sure what it actually stands for… GMO means Genetically Modified Organism. And for those of you who aren’t quite sure why this has anything to do with you personally, I want to say… EVERYTHING!
We all want to eat healthy, right? I mean, I can’t say I know one person who would say they want to eat unhealthy foods that are bad for them. We go to the grocery store and we choose fresh produce and lean meats and we check the back of cans and boxes to make sure the food we eat and give to our children contain vitamins and minerals and aren’t too high in fat and calories. But, are we doing enough? Probably not.
Narrated by Lisa Oz (yep, she’s Dr. Oz’s wife), this documentary goes step by step in explaining what GMO’s are and why they have slowly disrupted our entire food chain, as well as systematically caused us all kinds of illnesses and diseases that our bodies shouldn’t have ever known about. Not only are our foods changing their DNA, but that altered (as I call it… fake) DNA is entering our bodies that our organs are trying hard to figure out what to do with. Like any foreign body… our own bodies are rebelling against a DNA sequence they don’t recognize as being natural. So, what happens? We get sick. Very sick. We get cancer and autism and birth defects and we have trouble conceiving children. It’s all so dangerous. And scary. And preventable!
MONSANTO
Have you heard of Monsanto? I bet the name rings a bell. They’ve been all over the news for years because they are the very company that has created the genetically modified seeds that farmer’s are planting to grow the food you eat every day. The party line has always been that these genetically modified seeds will grow easier, faster and prevent insects from destroying them. The bigger issues… that the world is starving because we don’t have enough food… has been Monsanto’s reason for producing… and SELLING… these modified seeds. SELLING! As in… MONEY! Because, it’s always about money.
So here’s a secret. The world has plenty of food. What the world doesn’t have is plenty of money to purchase it.
WHAT CAN WE DO?
Can I share another secret? It would most likely take just 5% of us NOT purchasing GMO foods to make a difference in the actual food the grocery stores we shop at carry on their shelves. Only 5%. Why? Because it’s the mighty money again. Stores don’t want to lose money. If they are carrying products that even a small percentage of people don’t buy… they won’t carry them. Europe has already sat up and taken notice and refuses to allow genetically modified food. Whole Foods, a large grocery chain, has said NO to GMOs and is requiring that all GMOs in their stores be labeled as such by 2014. Recently, California voted against requiring all GM food be labeled. Yes, of course that would mean practically every single food in our stores would require a label. And yes, that would probably mean that all those foods would go up in price. But… don’t you want to know what you are putting into your body? I do.
- Consider looking for non-GMO Verified labels at your grocery store. There are currently 400 brands, with 6,000 products, that have the label.
- Buy organic produce.
- Avoid corn, soy, cottonseed oil, canola oil, and sugar from sugar beets.
- Visit nongmoshoppingguide.com
- Download the free iPhone app ShopNoGMO
Thought this might interest you…
Just recently Obama signed what was referred to some critics as “the Monsanto Protection Act” to protect biotechnology.
Family and organic farmers via Food Democracy Now and Organic Consumers Association are now in court with Monsanto to protect our food system.
FACTS ON GMO’s
- Studies have proven that non-GMO crops have more growth than the GMO crops.
- We lost 99% of the corn exports to Europe once we started selling corn grown with GMO’s.
- More pesticides are applied to GMO crops than non-GMO ones.
- 60 - 100% of our water supply was found to have contained Roundup (a pesticide used on GMO crops).
- Aspartame is derived from GMOs.
I realize that other people might feel differently about GMOs. If you want to eat foods that have been modified, you have every right to do so. All I’m asking is that we have the choice. The choice to choose what we buy and what we eat.
I’d love you to see this documentary and share your thoughts.
You can either BUY or RENT Genetic Roulette.
I was given the opportunity to view this documentary through Bookieboo, LLC. I was not compensated in any way and all opinions are entirely my own.
