Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods

[intruth]

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/09/15/genetic-roulette-gmo-documentary.aspx?e_cid=20120915_DNL_artNew_1


Another great article by Dr. Mercola about the dangers of GMO's. Includes a documentary by Jeffery Smith, Founder, Institute for Responsible Technology.

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[Mod-edit: Important Update - the above "Genetic Roulette" video is no available on Dr. Mercola's site. See Post #29 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?49816-Genetic-Roulette&p=563479&viewfull=1#post563479), below, for another version of this documentary that is still available online.

Or, for your convenience, here's the updated video directly:

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- Paul.]

[sdv]

GMOs have failed in what they were supposed to do.

Drought-resistant and insect-resistant crops have been genetaically engineered. What a wonderful idea - we are protected against the ravages of drought and we don't have to use toxic pesticides.

But, within a few years, these GMO crops are no longer resistant to drought and insects (adaptation is what Nature is very good at doing), but these GMO crops have also been designed so that seed from the crops cannot be used for the next season (you have to buy new seeds every year), so farmers now not only have crops that are not resistant to drought and insects, but they no longer have the seeds from the last crop so they have to keep buying and buying and buying.

From a Third World perspective, GMO is worsening poverty and the struggle to survive, and along the way has enriched the Western corporations who have sold these seeds.

I briefly worked with a scientist who was developing GMO seeds. She was sincere in that she believed that she was helping to eradicate poverty and struggle in drought-stricken areas and was helping to eradicate the use of toxic pesticides. She was wrong, and corporations hijacked her work for profit.

I am so glad to see countries standing up against GMO, even if it is for reasons that have nothing to do with what is happening in the Third World, where farmers bought into a dream for a better life and were made slaves, where the better life promised did not materailise, and corporations got rich.

[onawah]

Genetic Roulette—The Gamble of Our Lives, free from September 15-22, just in time to help pass California campaign for Prop 37


http://geneticroulettemovie.com/


Watch it free at the link until 9/22


This week only, watch for free online a new documentary that reveals the serious health impacts of genetically engineered foods in our diets and shows how you can protect your family. Available from September 15-22 at www.GeneticRouletteMovie.com

“It is in fact one of the most important stories ever told.” — John Robbins, Bestselling author of Diet for a New America and Food Revolution



Genetic Roulette—The Gamble of Our Lives has audiences rushing home to clear out their cupboards of dangerous genetically modified (GM) foods. The evidence presented in the film makes the best case yet for why genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are linked to disorders such as allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, infertility, autism, and cancer, to name a few. One health practitioner, Mary Tobin, L.Ac., said the film “provides abundant evidence that eating a GMO-free diet is the single most important change Americans can make for their health.

That evidence not only includes doctors and patients testimonials, but also veterinarians and famers who describe dramatic health improvements in animals that switched to non-GMO feed. The categories of diseases that improve in humans and animals are the ones found in lab animals fed GMOs. And these are many of the same categories, e.g. immune, reproductive, and gastrointestinal disorders that have been on the rise in the US population since GMOs were introduced.

Exposing the Dark Side

This 85 minute documentary reveals, what Author John Robbins calls, “the bullying and deceit of the biotech industry,”— including manipulation of research, attacks on independent scientists and their findings, and infiltration and control of government regulators.

The film also reveals for the first time to horrific impact among workers on a South Africa farm, who were consuming a higher amount of GMO corn than probably any other group in the world.

Upbeat, Empowering and World Changing

Although this film’s eye-opening evidence is sometimes shocking, it is by no means a downer. According to Robbins, it “shines a bright light of hope that we can reclaim our health and our food systems.” Smith explains that as little as 5% of the US population switching to non-GMO foods should deliver a tipping point, inspiring food companies to kick out GM ingredients. It was such a consumer rejection that already kicked GMOs out of Europe.

The film is being released right in the throes of the California campaign for Prop 37. If it passes in November, food companies will have to label products made with GM ingredients (like they do in nearly 50 other countries). Not only will this make it far easier for people to buy healthier non-GMO choices, the expected migration away from labeled GM products will probably accelerate the tipping point.

Genetic Roulette—The Gamble of Our Lives is a production of The Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT). Those who view the film during the free showing week are encouraged to support IRT’s efforts, through donations, by subscribing to the Spilling the Beans free e-newsletter, and by joining with other citizen advocates through the Non-GMO Tipping Point Network—to help get the word out in California and beyond.

“GENETIC ROULETTE unveils a world most of us have never seen. It raises alarming questions about GMOs, and we deserve answers. For all that you love, hear this message and act now.” — Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet and EcoMind

Genetic Roulette—The Gamble of Our Lives, from September 15-22. The film lays bare the serious health impacts of genetically modified foods (GM) as reported by scientists, doctors, veterinarians, as well as other experts. We are launching this free viewing week now because the movie can better equip voters in California with additional information on GMOs that they need to make sensible choices for Prop 37, which would require labels on GE foods. Otherwise they might fall prey to Monsanto’s multi-million dollar disinformation campaign.

[MorningSong]

Great find! Thanks, Onawah!

[intruth]

sdv said:

I briefly worked with a scientist who was developing GMO seeds. She was sincere in that she believed that she was helping to eradicate poverty and struggle in drought-stricken areas and was helping to eradicate the use of toxic pesticides. She was wrong, and corporations hijacked her work for profit.


I hope this scientist spread the word that Monsanto et al are EVIL. Is she still doing this kind of work? Just curious...

[modwiz]

Europeans also have Universal health care, except for Spain, IIRC. That means preventive care is cost effective medicine. Healthy people are better for the bottom line. In the USA, the reverse is true.

[blufire]

I have always been a huge advocate of Jeffery Smith and all his research . . . even bought and taught his workshops for a few years.



But . . . I am beginning to see things from a very different angle the last few months and my angle makes more sense to me than trying to believe there was some sort of evil plan in why ‘they’ would drench us in GMO’s since the early 90’s.

I believe we will now see a very fast reduction of the use of GMO’s, not because we have won some sort of war or battle but because ‘they’ have collected the essential data they needed.

It will be interesting to see what the humanoid genome will be subjected to next . . . .

[onawah]

It might be a good idea to merge this thread with
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?49819-Genetic-Roulette-Movie-watch-it-free-online-until-9-22&p=553823#post553823
which deserves a bump at the very least, IMHO

[ThePythonicCow]

It might be a good idea to merge this thread with
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?49819-Genetic-Roulette-Movie-watch-it-free-online-until-9-22&p=553823#post553823
which deserves a bump at the very least, IMHO

Merged ... that other thread now appears a Post #3 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?49816-Is-This-Why-the-Europeans-Don-t-Get-Sick-Like-Americans-Do&p=553823&viewfull=1#post553823) above.

[norman]

.......GMOs have failed in what they were supposed to do.

Drought-resistant and insect-resistant crops have been genetaically engineered. What a wonderful idea - we are protected against the ravages of drought and we don't have to use toxic pesticides.......



As I understand it in the agricultural sector, where I have a little experience, the general idea was to engineer plants that were actually "pesticide" and " insecticide" resistant so that the industry could spray even heavier doses of the those chemicals to wipe out all but the selected GMOs.

I don't know how many of you realise this, but, for many years wheat growers have been finishing off wheat crops, just 2 weeks prior to the combine harvesters going in, with 'Roundup', the well known weed killer. It actually kills the wheat, which has the effect of making all the wheat arrive at the same "ripe ?" state at exactly the same time, timed to the day for the harvesters to crop a maximum yield.

I think people should look a bit deeper into the actual GMO developments a little more to differentiate between the fantastic ideas that it COULD be about from the purely mercenary and economic practises that are really going on. There's a huge difference between a GMO that resists insects and a GMO that resists the chemicals they spray to kill insects and 'weeds'.

[ThePythonicCow]

for many years wheat growers have been finishing off wheat crops, just 2 weeks prior to the combine harvesters going in, with 'Roundup', the well known weed killer. It actually kills the wheat, which has the effect of making all the wheat arrive at the same "ripe ?" state at exactly the same time
Good grief :angry:

[norman]

for many years wheat growers have been finishing off wheat crops, just 2 weeks prior to the combine harvesters going in, with 'Roundup', the well known weed killer. It actually kills the wheat, which has the effect of making all the wheat arrive at the same "ripe ?" state at exactly the same time
Good grief :angry:

"QUITE" ! , Paul.

[Ellisa]

Just an observation, but I have noticed a reluctance in many posters to go to a medical doctor when they are ill which does not apply in other countries, especially ones with available free health care. This would help explain some of the ill-health.

Also, oddly, the rise in various diseases could be due to the fact that medical expertise is very good in the US (when you can access it) and conditions can be recognised and treated, and most importantly given a label, which would not be the case elsewhere.

And (this will sound harsh)-- Americans seem to eat very large amounts of food, much, much larger than elsewhere. Maybe as well as the obvious result of this over-eating, chemicals etc. are also absorbed way over the safe limit.

[DarMar]

Here in Croatia GMO didn't took it's form yet. People grow vegetables and fruit in old natural way, pigs and chickens are fed with bread made at field in natural ways.. Yes larger agriculture uses GMO stuff but not all of them. And yet people and villagers here get to be sick, some from cancers and heavy disseases... I on other hand drank lots of coke, eated in McDonalds sometimes, and i know to digest junk food when i work alot and im lazy to go make something nice. And i was never sick yet and never taken any pill or medication.
Being that said i think most of one's strength is in his state of awareness and behaving in life.
but i must agree if i ever eaten too much GMO and junk food i think i would be less resistant to diseases.
In personal view i think drinkinh health water is soooo much important as we are made almoust from water and everything you touch in nature needs water more than meat or plants..
Here we have hill in capital city with 60 natural water springs. From warm to mineral water, i drink alot of that one. And i tested for some time to not eat at all and i managed to live two weeks without single piece of food taken without loosing strength and weight, only thing i did is to drink that water. That period of time i lived on that hill in deeper forest along with nature.

Water connect dimensions, it is full of minerals and information. Some say it is pure god's energy. Drinking flouridated or plastic bottled water takes more than any feeding as it makes hard for organism to defend itself.
But on end if someone somewhere demanded from me that i eat every day gmo junk and drink flouride i would insta-move myself to some more healthy place on earth.. there is alot of nice places on this wonder planet.

[ThePythonicCow]

Just an observation, but I have noticed a reluctance in many posters to go to a medical doctor when they are ill which does not apply in other countries, especially ones with available free health care. This would help explain some of the ill-health.

Also, oddly, the rise in various diseases could be due to the fact that medical expertise is very good in the US (when you can access it) and conditions can be recognised and treated, and most importantly given a label, which would not be the case elsewhere.

And (this will sound harsh)-- Americans seem to eat very large amounts of food, much, much larger than elsewhere. Maybe as well as the obvious result of this over-eating, chemicals etc. are also absorbed way over the safe limit.
I attribute my better health to not going to doctors. I quit going about six years ago, and am much healthier now. I have some responsibility also for assisting my sister, who suffered major health challenges last year; now she too has stopped conventional medical treatment, and is much healthier. The only medical treatment either of us have purchased of late is dental work - to remove previous mercury fillings and root canal treated teeth.

To some extent, yes, conventional statistics of how many are sick and with what do reflect a larger conventional medical establishment; they make money by sticking a diagnostic label on you and selling you drugs, surgery and radiation to "fix" the problem (and the problems caused by their fixes.) My cynical appraisal is that the goal of conventional medicine is to keep you alive long enough to drain all but the final funeral expenses from your assets.

Yes, Americans are fat. The primary cause of obesity is poor quality food -- low nutritional content, excessive sugars and industrially processed light oils, and numerous toxins.

[norman]

My cynical appraisal is that the goal of conventional medicine is to keep you alive long enough to drain all but the final funeral expenses from your assets.



Hmmmm, isn't it strange how money is SO important to the very people who know ( because it's they who invent it out of thin air ) it's all a fiction.

[Ellisa]

Norman- I suggest that you do not live in a country where you can obtain medical treatment completely without cost and medications are heavily subsidised. Being ill will possibly mean you cannot work, but it will not mean you cannot get treatment freely in a country with a free health scheme.

[rgray222]

A few have figured out that you cannot and should not attempt to perfect nature, that is why there is a scramble going on to fill the once secretive seed banks with unaltered seeds from around the globe! The earth is a living organism and it will genetically modify seeds over time. 'Natural' extinction is part of the process and it is nothing that we should be overly concerned about. On the other hand we should attempt to repair any damage that is 'honestly man-made' that causes the loss of seed, animal or plant life.

[161803398]

I stopped going to a doctor 20 years ago. I get in touch with these guys who are A M A Z I NG: http://www.jiva.com/ayurveda/

[Healthy Skeptic]

Yes, Americans are fat. The primary cause of obesity is poor quality food -- low nutritional content, excessive sugars and industrially processed light oils, and numerous toxins.

And whose 'fault' is that?
It's far more easier to go to a Fast Food chain and buy 'super-sized' meals than to, 'shock & horror', actually cook good food for oneself because it 'takes too long'.

[Cjay]

Norman- I suggest that you do not live in a country where you can obtain medical treatment completely without cost and medications are heavily subsidised. Being ill will possibly mean you cannot work, but it will not mean you cannot get treatment freely in a country with a free health scheme.

I do live in a country where free doctors visits are available and the medicine is heavily subsidised. I very rarely go to a doctor and usually only for things such as broken bones or deep lacerations requiring sutures. I avoid medicines like the plague. I eat moderate amounts of healthy, unprocessed food. I exercise although I could do more. I hardly ever get sick.

The answer to good health is NOT free or cheap health care - though it helps a lot in emergencies. Cheap subsudised medicines are mostly poisons with a list of horrendous side effects longer than this page.

[BMJ]

The reason Europeans don't get sick is because most foods they eat are "home made from scratch and made with the goodstuff like salt, pepper, garlic and onions for taste". Mixed with a healthly like of exercise such as cycling.

Unlike here is Australia and similiarly in the USA where Hunger Jack's, Macca's are a great meal any time of dayand a lack of exercise is usually the norm, which leads to health problems in your 20's.

So if you want to be health, throw out the processed foods, and only have them as treat once in a while. Make as much of your meals as you can from scratch, hydrate with water as much as you can stomach and find an activate you enjoy , (and im not talking about sex), in which you can participate in several times a week that is going to raise you heart beat for at least 30 minutes a time.

[K626]

One of the best things about the UK is free basic healthcare for everybody. The NHS as it stands turns out to be quite efficent as well when compared to say Germany and its money grabbing insurance system that is abused by hospitals and doctors to milk money from the insurance companies.

K

[ThePythonicCow]

Yes, Americans are fat. The primary cause of obesity is poor quality food -- low nutritional content, excessive sugars and industrially processed light oils, and numerous toxins.

And whose 'fault' is that?
It's far more easier to go to a Fast Food chain and buy 'super-sized' meals than to, 'shock & horror', actually cook good food for oneself because it 'takes too long'.
Even most of the "food" and most ingredients for preparing "food" at home that American's can buy in the grocery store is junk. Nutritional guidance from doctors is junk. Advertising and popular books on nutrition are mostly junk.

A major topic that I find myself studying and discussing with others on this forum is nutrition. It takes each individual person who so chooses substantial time, effort and initiative to learn what is healthy, to discard habits and learning that had been junk, and to completely rebuild their diet in a healthy manner.

It is absolutely each individual person's responsibility to choose a healthy diet for themselves and their children.

But it is also, at another level, absolutely the fault of major pharmaceutical, agriculture, medical, insurance, education, media, retail, manufacturing, municipal water utilities, chemical, and other interests and some powerful families behind those interests that traditional healthy food traditions, culture and economics of a century ago have been massively displaced with junk ... deadly junk ... slow killing toxic poisons.

I would encourage anyone who has not made the effort to rebuild their diet from the ground up. It's one of the best investments one can make in one's health and well being. But it's not easy. I've spent several years of time, money and effort on this myself, and I'm still learning, still making critical changes that make a vital difference to my well being.

[BMJ]

Yes, Americans are fat. The primary cause of obesity is poor quality food -- low nutritional content, excessive sugars and industrially processed light oils, and numerous toxins.

And whose 'fault' is that?
It's far more easier to go to a Fast Food chain and buy 'super-sized' meals than to, 'shock & horror', actually cook good food for oneself because it 'takes too long'.
Even most of the "food" and most ingredients for preparing "food" at home that American's can buy in the grocery store is junk. Nutritional guidance from doctors is junk. Advertising and popular books on nutrition are mostly junk.

A major topic that I find myself studying and discussing with others on this forum is nutrition. It takes each individual person who so chooses substantial time, effort and initiative to learn what is healthy, to discard habits and learning that had been junk, and to completely rebuild their diet in a healthy manner.

It is absolutely each individual person's responsibility to choose a healthy diet for themselves and their children.

But it is also, at another level, absolutely the fault of major pharmaceutical, agriculture, medical, insurance, education, media, retail, manufacturing, municipal water utilities, chemical, and other interests and some powerful families behind those interests that traditional healthy food traditions, culture and economics of a century ago have been massively displaced with junk ... deadly junk ... slow killing toxic poisons.

I would encourage anyone who has not made the effort to rebuild their diet from the ground up. It's one of the best investments one can make in one's health and well being. But it's not easy. I've spent several years of time, money and effort on this myself, and I'm still learning, still making critical changes that make a vital difference to my well being.

I like your post Paul very well put.

[MorningSong]

I must agree with Paul's post above... whenever I return to the States, I have the hardest time just finding a type of rice in the grocery that I can use to make a decent risotto.... even the well-known Italian brands of olive oil or pasta sold in the US are different compared to what I am used to here!

I learned how to cook over here, mostly, and so getting comparable raw materials for the way I am used to cooking is just a real feat for me in the States.

As for the industrialized, prepared foods... the supermarkets are full of those here...and in these times of crises, are on sale moreso than the raw materials I prefer to buy. That makes them very attractinve and inviting to a bunch of people, I'm sure. But I'll tell you, my spaghetti sauce is a h*ll of a lot better tasting and genuine that any of that bottled stuff!

Another lie, is that is doesn't take that much more time to cook up a nice risotto (or much of anything else, for that matter) than it does to thaw out and bake a prepped industrial lasagna (full of stuff you can't even decifer if you look at the ingredients on the packaging....) and even cost-wise is just NOT such a good deal buying it ready-made.

One interesting thing...my mother suffers from high colesterol, takes all the meds and does her exams...in the States. But! when she comes here (usually for a month at a time) and eats what we eat, she goes home in so much better shape... her exams are aways better, if not more than normal for a while. Put that one in the think tank!

[Reinhard]

And (this will sound harsh)-- Americans seem to eat very large amounts of food, much, much larger than elsewhere. Maybe as well as the obvious result of this over-eating, chemicals etc. are also absorbed way over the safe limit.

Right! And another take on this, which, from a systemic point of view, adds another highly dangerous vicious circle to the mentioned ones: eating a lot of that kind of food accelerates the unbalance, or, paradoxically: a fat person is starving!

[blufire]

.......GMOs have failed in what they were supposed to do.

Drought-resistant and insect-resistant crops have been genetaically engineered. What a wonderful idea - we are protected against the ravages of drought and we don't have to use toxic pesticides.......



As I understand it in the agricultural sector, where I have a little experience, the general idea was to engineer plants that were actually "pesticide" and " insecticide" resistant so that the industry could spray even heavier doses of the those chemicals to wipe out all but the selected GMOs.

I don't know how many of you realise this, but, for many years wheat growers have been finishing off wheat crops, just 2 weeks prior to the combine harvesters going in, with 'Roundup', the well known weed killer. It actually kills the wheat, which has the effect of making all the wheat arrive at the same "ripe ?" state at exactly the same time, timed to the day for the harvesters to crop a maximum yield.

I think people should look a bit deeper into the actual GMO developments a little more to differentiate between the fantastic ideas that it COULD be about from the purely mercenary and economic practises that are really going on. There's a huge difference between a GMO that resists insects and a GMO that resists the chemicals they spray to kill insects and 'weeds'.



Have GMO’s failed in what they were supposed to do? I believe we don’t or won’t even except the primary reason(s) for their use.

Both sdv and Norman even have the information that we are ‘given’ basically wrong . . . so how in the world can we accept the actual truth and reasons for the creation of these very specific modifications of the genetic amino acids and proteins of these plant foods . . . . a clue . . . amino acids and proteins are the building blocks of life and our molecular structure.

But again . . . like the chemtrails that have all but stopped globally we will begin to see gmo’s reduce as well.

We are given the information and we have the free will to make our own personal choices and path.

It is like the commercials and advertisement for pharmaceutical drugs. The disclaimer and reasons why you shouldn’t take the drug is longer that the reason why you should take it, but millions still take the damn drug. There are alternatives to your health care no matter where you live and you have the free will to make your choice.

Same with gmo food we have the information and reason why we shouldn’t eat it but most still eat the damn stuff. There are alternatives readily available for your food sources and you have the free will to choose.

[ThePythonicCow]

Another great article by Dr. Mercola about the dangers of GMO's. Includes a documentary by Jeffery Smith, Founder, Institute for Responsible Technology.
The copy of Jeffery Smith's documentary that was available via the link to Dr. Mercola's site in the opening post of this thread is no longer available.

A reduced resolution version of this documentary is still available online:

kC-ny11zLXg


I have edited this thread's title to be "Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health
Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods", the name of this documentary and the book it is based on (see next post below), and the main topic of this thread. I didn't edit the titles on the individual posts above, to avoid confusing the two threads where were merged into this one thread, some time ago.

I will also add a Mod-Edit to this thread's opening post, pointing to this updating post, so people can find the still available online copy of this important documentary.

[ThePythonicCow]

This "Genetic Roulette" documentary by Jeffrey M. Smith is based on an earlier book of his:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N6bvLNeFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health
Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (http://amzn.com/0972966528)

[Flash]

I just saw this video today and the information within correspond to what I gathered directly from specialists, biochemists, researchers in the food industry, doctors and natural medecine experts. As well as from farmers. The information, in my opinion, is very well researched and quite science based.

I think most of us should see it.

Therefore bumping.

PS: again thanks Paul

[onawah]

This surely must have something to do with the epidemic of celiac disease.




for many years wheat growers have been finishing off wheat crops, just 2 weeks prior to the combine harvesters going in, with 'Roundup', the well known weed killer. It actually kills the wheat, which has the effect of making all the wheat arrive at the same "ripe ?" state at exactly the same time
Good grief :angry:

"QUITE" ! , Paul.

[Flash]

This is soooo great, the documentary genetic roulette has made it mainstream. I saw the author today advocating going
GMO free and telling about the health impact and the FDA biased views on it favoring the industry just today at Dr OZ show. On the show they also described the research done in France on rats, 80% of them getting cancer after 2 years consuming GMO corn, versus 20% in the normal rats population consuming regular food.

Of course they had 2 scientists, women, certifying that GMO was safe and that they were feeding it to their children and they said the FDA refused to show up on the show.

Thanks Dr OZ (even if I do not always agree with what is presented there) for daring contest the FDA by showing a balanced show, which in fact, when listeining, was not.

It was also said that 80% of American would not consume GMO food if given the choice.

[Dawn]

Morning Song: Another lie, is that is doesn't take that much more time to cook up a nice risotto (or much of anything else, for that matter) than it does to thaw out and bake a prepped industrial lasagna (full of stuff you can't even decifer if you look at the ingredients on the packaging....) and even cost-wise is just NOT such a good deal buying it ready-made.

In this discussion of GMO foods and the American diet I'd like to point out that almost all rice in the US is GMO! Therefore to purchase rice and make a 'nice risotto' is NOT healthy! Stay away from rice in the USA.