This list is only for a specific case known.
Severe pain
Hair loss
Memory loss
Muscle weakness, and uncontrollable muscle spasms
Hardening of the skin
Through a series of events, these symptoms were traced back to genetically modified strains of L-tryptophan. Up to 10,000 people were affected and some 100 of them died. Uncovered documents revealed that the FDA knew about these health problems for about five years prior to the “epidemic,” which only became known as an epidemic after the story was published in the New York Times, and people began coming out of the woodwork displaying these symptoms that no one had been able to diagnose before.
To illustrate this point – that GMO’s may very well be wreaking havoc with your health and you don’t even know it’s the source of your problems – is the fact that the toxic L-tryptophan was only discovered because its symptoms were acute, rare, and had a very fast onset. These things are what get doctors curious about unearthing the cause. But as Jeffrey Smith points out – what if the damage doesn’t occur overnight? What if the symptoms are milder?
Thousands of genetically modified products are now on the market, creating potentially life-threatening problems, but no one knows what to look out for.
Why?
Because no one knows the full extent of what happens to the end product when you splice in new genes. The only thing that is guaranteed is that it will create surprise side effects… However, according to Smith’s research, what we do know is that between 1994 and 2001 – at the same time as GMO’s flooded the market – food related illnesses DOUBLED.
GMO foods can be:
Allergenic
Toxic
Carcinogenic
Anti-nutritional
It may also create brand new diseases that we’ve never seen before, in addition to spurring on the disease rate of some we already have, such as cancer.
Although the major food giants are carrying on with their claim that GM foods are no different from conventionally grown varieties, the research begs to differ. Here is just a sampling of the unsavory findings associated with GM foods:
GM peas caused lung damage in mice
GM potatoes may cause cancer in rats
Bacteria in your gut can take up DNA from GM food
They may be spurring the creation of weed-killer-resistant superweeds
Smith mentions the superior work of Arpad Pusztai, PhD, a (formerly pro-biotech) scientist who was hired to evaluate the safety of GMO food, and then fired for his negative findings and his outspoken criticism of the industry’s shoddy science.
Fortunately, he finally managed to get his animal feeding study published in the journal Lancet in 1999 (see the Lancet October 16, 1999;354(9187):1353-4 for the full PDF article).
Despite the efforts of concerned scientists like Pusztai, you may be surprised to learn that you have a 75 percent chance of picking a food with genetically modified ingredients in the United States. This is because at least seven out of every 10 items have been genetically modified!
Many of you probably try to avoid genetically modified foods, but very few know what they really are, since there are no labeling requirements identifying GMO ingredients. To get an idea of how widespread these ingredients are, I recommend taking a look at The GMO Food Guide I published a couple of months ago.
Jeffrey Smith’s website www.seedsofdeception.com also gives you a more in-depth overview of GMO laced products, but the four main culprits are:
Soy
Corn
Cottonseed
Canola
The offspring of these products include items such as maltodextrin, soy lecitin, and high fructose corn syrup. Other GMO products include:
Some varieties of zucchini, crookneck squash, and papayas from Hawaii
Milk containing rbGH
Rennet (containing genetically modified enzymes) used to make hard cheeses
Aspartame (NutraSweet)
What Can You Do?
Along with using the GMO Food Guide and avoiding the products mentioned above, there’s other tricks you that can use to figure out if something is genetically modified in your fresh produce aisles:
Examine produce stickers on the fruits and vegetables you buy. The PLU code for conventionally grown fruit consists of four numbers; organically grown fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number nine; and GM fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number eight.
Buy organic produce as often as you can. By definition, food that is certified organic must be free from all GM organisms.
Stay away from all processed foods, as most of these contain corn and soy ingredients.
Fortunately, as a consumer you do have power. You can choose not to be a victim of deception, and you can choose what you feed your family. Large portions of Europe have already succeeded in squashing GMO’s out of their food supply, forcing food manufacturers to use real ingredients in their European product lines. But here in the U.S. we’re still stuck with it to a very large degree.
You can be the change you want to see in America, by educating yourself, spreading the word, and refusing to buy GMO products.
-Dr Mercola
for instance…. genetically modified brands (and this only scratches the surface) :
GENETICALLY ENGINEERED INGREDIENTSGeneral Mills Cheerios Wheaties Total Corn Chex Lucky Charms Trix Kix Golden Grahams Cinnamon Grahams Count Chocula Honey Nut Chex Frosted Cheerios Apple Cinnamon Cheerios Multi-Grain Cheerios Frosted Wheaties Brown Sugar & Oat Total Basic 4 Reeses Puffs French Toast Crunch
Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes Corn Flakes Special K Raisin Bran Rice Krispies Corn Pops Product 19 Smacks Froot Loops Marshmallow Blasted Fruit Loops Apple Jacks Crispix Smart Start All-Bran Complete Wheat Bran Complete Oat Bran Just Right Fruit & Nut Honey Crunch Corn Flakes Raisin Bran Crunch Cracklin’ Oat Bran Country Inn Specialties
(all varieties)
Mothers Cereals
(Quaker) Toasted Oat Bran Peanut Butter Bumpers Groovy Grahams Harvest Oat Flakes Harvest Oat Flakes w/Apples & Almonds Honey Round Ups
Post
(Kraft-Phillip Morris) Raisin Bran Bran Flakes Grape Nut Flakes Grape Nut O’s Fruit & Fibre date, raisin and walnut Fruit & Fibre peach, raisin and almond Honey Bunch of Oats Honey Nut Shredded Wheat Honey Comb Golden Crisp Waffle Crisp Cocoa Pebbles Cinna-Crunch Pebbles Fruity Pebbles Alpha-Bits Post Selects Cranberry Almond Post Selects Banana Nut Crunch Post Selects Blueberry Morning Post Selects Great Grains
Quaker Life Cinnamon Life 100% Natural Granola Toasted Oatmeal Toasted Oatmeal Honey Nut Oat Bran Cap’n Crunch Cap’n Crunch Peanut Butter Crunch Cap’n Crunch Crunchling Berries
Del Monte
(Nabisco/Phillip Morris) Ketchup
Heinz Ketchup
(regular & no salt) Chili Sauce Cocktail Sauce Heinz 57 Steak Sauce
Hellman’s
(Bestfoods) Real Mayonnaise Light Mayonnaise Low-Fat Mayonnaise Hunt’s
(ConAgra) Ketchup
(regular & no salt)
KC Masterpiece
(Clorox) Original BBQ sauce Garlic & Herb Marinade Honey Teriyaki Marinade
Kraft
(Kraft/Phillip Morris) Miracle Whip
(all varieties) Kraft Mayonnaise
(all) Thick & Spicy BBQ sauces
(all varieties) Char Grill BBQ sauce Honey Hickory BBQ sauce
Nabisco
(Nabiso/Phillip Morris) A-1 Steak Sauce
Open Pit
(Vlasic/Campbells) BBQ sauces
(all)
salsa
Chi-Chi’s
(Hormel) Fiesta Salsa
(all varieties)
Old El Paso
(Pillsbury) Thick & Chunky Salsa Garden Pepper Salsa Taco Sauce Picante Sauce
Ortega
(Nestle) Taco Sauce Salsa Prima Homestyle Salsa Prima Roasted Garlic Salsa Prima 3 Bell Pepper Thick & Chunky Salsa
Pace
(Campbells) Chunky Salsa Picante Sauce
Tostitos Salsa
(Frito-Lay/Pepsi) All Natural All Natural Thick & Chunky Roasted Garlic Restaurant Style
Chef Boyardee
(ConAgra) Beefaroni Macaroni & Cheese Mini Ravioli ABC’s & 123’s
Dinty Moore
(Hormel) Beef Stew Turkey Stew Chicken & Dumplings
Hormel Chili with Beans Chili No Beans Vegetarian Chili with Beans Kids’ Kitchen
(Hormel) Spaghetti Rings with Meatballs Macaroni & Cheese Pizza Wedges with 3 Cheese
Franco-American
(Campbell’s) Spaghetti O’s Mini Ravioli Power Rangers Pasta in Sauce
sodasCoca Cola Coca Cola Sprite Cherry Coke Barq’s Root Beer Minute Maid Orange Minute Maid Grape Surge Ultra
PepsiCo Pepsi Slice Wild Cherry Pepsi Mug Root Beer Mountain Dew Cadbury/Schweppes 7-Up Dr. Pepper A & W Root Beer Sunkist Orange Schweppes Ginger Ale
juice drinks
Capri Sun juices
(Kraft/Phillip Morris) Red Berry Surfer Cooler Splash Cooler Wild Cherry Strawberry Kiwi Fruit Punch Pacific Cooler Strawberry Orange Grape
Fruitopia
(Coca Cola) Grape Beyond Berry Lemonade Fruit Integration Kiwiberry Ruckus Strawberry Passion Tremendously Tangerine
Fruit Works
(PepsiCo) Strawberry Melon Peach Papaya Pink Lemonade Apple Raspberry
Gatorade
(Quaker) Lemon Lime Orange Fruitpunch Fierce Grape Frost Riptide Rush
Hawaiian Punch
(Procter & Gamble) Tropical Fruit Grape Geyser Fruit Juicy Red Strawberry Surfin
Hi-C
(Coca Cola) Pink Lemonade Watermelon Rapids Boppin’ Berry Tropical Punch Smashin’ Wildberry Blue Cooler Blue Moon Berry Orange Cherry
Kool Aid
(Kraft/Phillip Morris) Blastin’ Berry Cherry Bluemoon Berry Kickin’ Kiwi Lime Tropical Punch Wild Berry Tea
Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail Cranapple CranGrape CranRaspberry CranStrawberry CranMango
Squeeze It
(Betty Crocker/General Mills) Rockin’ Red Puncher Chucklin’ Cherry Mystery 2000
Sunny Delight
(Procter & Gamble) Sunny Delight Original Sunny Delight With Calcium Citrus Punch Sunny Delight California Style Citrus Punch
Tang juices
(Kraft/Phillip Morris) Orange Uproar Fruit Frenzy Berry Panic
Tropicana Twisters
(PepsiCo) Grape Berry Apple Raspberry Blackberry Cherry Berry Cranberry Raspberry Strawberry Pink Grapefruit Tropical Strawberry Orange Cranberry Orange Strawberry Banana
V-8
(Campbells) V8 Tomato Juices
(all varieties) Strawberry Kiwi Strawberry Banana Fruit Medley Berry Blend Citrus Blend Apple Medley Tropical Blend Island Blend