GM Food Crops

The Potential Dangers of Eating Genetically Modified Food

The Risk of Irreversible Damage to the Environment 

Genetic pollution is something totally different from chemical pollution, we have been stupid enough to initiate… over the past 50 years or so.? Because chemicals never replicate themselves. Even a huge chemical pollution will over time get smaller. Gene technologies have the potential to alter creation and undermine the principle of wholeness and oneness with potentially dangerous consequences. They affect our lives and those of future generations, and are being used right now. Genetically modified (GM) food is food produced from any crop or animal that has been genetically altered during its production using the modern techniques of gene technology. Modifications usually involve changing one gene of the 30,000 — 50,000 odd genes that make up an organism.

Genes and new combinations can be introduced into our environment and food chain that have never previously existed. Indeed, GM DNA is often designed to cross species barriers. GM food is not the rare exception to the rule many of us assume it is. Last year roughly 75 to 80 percent of the soybeans and 30 to 35 percent of the corn grown in the United States was genetically modified.

Genetically modified food crops are a complete and total unknown from the perspective of translocation of modified genes into the human digestive tract, and from there into our individual chromosomal makeup. Insufficient research has been undertaken by the owners of GM patents and no-one bothers to ask why. Genetic modification is possible only because the genes of all organisms (except some viruses) are made of the same chemical: DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid. This basic similarity allows the DNA from two different organisms to be cut and spliced together Genetically modified crops must be moniitored to reduce unintended degradation of natural ecosystems.

Label information about GM status is primarily used by those trying to avoid GM foods. Labelling schemes clearly have a role to play, but if conventional and organic crops can become contaminated by GM crops grown nearby, those people who wish to be sure they are eating or growing absolutely natural, non-industrialised, real food, will be denied that choice. Labelling would lead to escalation in the cost of GM food. The costs of testing, segregating, certifying and labelling would be imposed on all the foods in the supply chain, from producers to food retailers, so since cost in involved, it lessens the chance of genetically modified food being honestly labelled.

Farmers  have to purchase seeds from  companies, such as Monsanto, and are not allowed or able to reap seeds from plants already growing. Some crops are modified to produce no seeds at all so that farmers will need to buy new seeds each year. Farmers therefore, become totally dependent on the corporations for seeds.

Following are some videos by the man who wrote Seeds of Deception, hopefully his book and his videos will turn the tide against the multi nationals who control GM products.