GMO stands for "genetically modified origins": plainly put - GMO's are genetically modified materials that are bred into our food...genetically modified to be bigger, juicier more plentiful, more withstanding of pesticide - more importantly Monsanto's Roundup and other chemical company's products.
What this also means is that these genetically altered items in our foods that we ingest are metabolized into our body. They don't leave. They don't "digest out". They are speculated to change us in fundamental ways.
GMO Free Moms website provides a concise statement:
"There are many claims from the public that there are detrimental effects from eating GMOs such as autism, gastrointestinal disorders like IBS, colitis, leaky gut, and crohn’s. The medical establishment has seen an increase in said disorders during the time period GMOs have been on the market, but we much be careful in attributing them to GMOs until there have been the appropriate studies done to validate the claims. Though we should proceed with caution and a safe approach is to avoid GMOs."
But their statement does contain one falsehood: there have been appropriate studies done - no matter what the naysayers may want us to believe... they've been done on pigs and rats and other animals and it's shown that when fed foods with GMO ingredients, over a period of time there were huge increases in cancerous tumors, issues with breast cancer in animals, etc.
Don't believe me? the picture below shows rats fed a diet of Monsanto's GMO Roundup ready corn. These were not the only ones to show results like this.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/natural-health/gmo-safety-zmgz13amzsto.aspx#axzz2WWqtlDmO
Another study, done recently, dealt with pigs...and an excerpt from an article by Tom Laskawy references it below:
Look who’s squealing now: GMO lovers freak over new study of sick pigs
"Australian scientists, working with an Iowa farmer and U.S. veterinarians, studied 168 “commercial” piglets as they were raised and fattened for slaughter. Half of the pigs received non-GMO feed and another half ate feed made from GMO corn and soy. Researchers made sure that the GMO feed contained multiple kinds of genetically modified grains that are common in livestock feed; one grain was raised from seed that is herbicide-tolerant, for example, and another from seed that expresses its own pesticide. (One of the complaints of past GMO feeding trials is that they did not reflect actual feeding practices and thus couldn’t account for any potential “synergy” from exposing animals to more than one of these so-called “transgenes.”)
The vets who examined the pigs post-mortem didn’t know whether they were looking at an animal raised on GMO feed or not — to preserve the “blind” nature of the study.
The results, as reported by Reuters:
Researchers said there were no differences seen between pigs fed the GM and non-GM diets for feed intake, weight gain, mortality, and routine blood biochemistry measurements.But those pigs that ate the GM diet had a higher rate of severe stomach inflammation — 32 percent of GM-fed pigs compared to 12 percent of non-GM-fed pigs. The inflammation was worse in GM-fed males compared to non-GM fed males by a factor of 4.0, and GM-fed females compared to non-GM-fed females by a factor of 2.2. As well, GM-fed pigs had uteri that were 25 percent heavier than non-GM fed pigs, the study said.
Interestingly enough, Many critics of the study agree that it was conducted in a rigorous way, and the findings are intriguing and worth pursuing. The researchers did, after all, find high rates of severe inflammation. As the study’s main author, Judy Carman, observed in a response to critics, all commercial pigs raised in typical hog barn conditions experience gut inflammation to a degree. The point is that the severity was much worse for GMO-fed pigs. "
Any of this should give anyone who is concerned about GMO versus non-GMO reason to have concern about what we feed our children. Even if you had no concerns before now, you should from this day forward ...
GMO is not natural. And any time you screw with nature - bad things happen.
Do I believe we will be able to rid our market of GMO items? Not necessarily ... however I do believe that mandatory labeling of genetically modified origin products should be law in all 50 states - other countries ban them altogether or require it labeled ... why can't the USA?
