GMO Corn and Soy: Foundation for a “Heart Healthy” Diet!

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1. Your place is valueble for me. Thanks!…

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3. Yep, I’m one of them!

   1. Carie – be ready for the first ever GMO animal. The FDA will probably approve the genetically engineered salmon this year. AND since it’s unlabeled you won’t know if you’re eating real, farmed or GMO salmon. Prop 37 would have labeled this salmon. If you care, then tell the FDA to not approve GMO salmon. But I doubt if the FDA cares about our health.

4. After initially being pro-prop 37, my enthusiasm dissipated. I found myself thinking labeling would go the way of carcinogenic labeling: every building I’ve entered in California has a big sign stating carcinogenic chemicals are present. They’re meaningless and everyone ignores them. Think how un-effective labeling GMOs would be if every package you pick up in a grocery store states there are or may be GMO ingredients contained within. It would mean nothing.

   I think it’d be more effective if a manufacturer would prominently advertise that his product contains no GMO ingredients. I’m sure there would be a fight over that like the effort against dairy farmers who labeled their products free of growth hormones, but I think that would be a more constructive fight.

   Plus, why wasn’t the labeling of GMO supposed to be applicable to all products? Why were some exempt? Even people who liked the idea of Prop 37 in California voted against it.

   1. Food manufacturers already labeled their products through Non-GMO Project. But you won’t find many of these non-GMO foods at Lucky, Safeway and even Trader Joe’s. Non-GMO Project verified food products are usually sold at Whole Foods and other Health Food Grocers. Michael Pollan says it best on Democracy Now! that by not labeling GMOs you are creating a two tier food system. One for those who could afford organic and one who can’t buy organic. By labeling GMOs you give those who can’t afford organic valuable information so that they can demand non-GMO products at their stores. Of course, not every one reads food labels but that’s not a valid reason to deny the rest of us who want labeling. Prop 37, a simple and clear law, was intentionally written to focus mainly on PROCESSED food, the main staple, for babies, children, teenagers and pregnant women. Why include alcohol? Most people know consuming alcohol can be harmful. But mothers are unknowingly feeding their babies infant formulas with GM soy and corn thinking that the infant formula is SAFE. Food served at restaurants are excluded for practical reasons. Many small & medium restaurants owners are just like consumers – they want GM foods labeled too. Restaurants do NOT produce food. They prepare dishes. It’s the food manufacturers (Pepsi, General Mills, Kraft, Kellogg’s…) who are SOURCING the ingredients that need to label their products. They are the ones who communicates to the farmers whether they want to purchase GM corn or non-GMO corn. For those people who wanted GMOs labeled but thought Prop 37 should have included 100% of food – well, you now got ZERO labeling when you could have gotten 70% of the food labeled if you had voted yes for Prop 37.

5. I had a conversation with a colleague a couple of weeks prior to the vote and she insisted to me that there has been no published peer-reviewed studies of GMO foods causing harm to humans (which might be the case due to topics you’ve brought up in your book and this article).

   She stated that she supported the labeling of GMO foods, but just not the way that proposition 37 intended to label them (direct, clear labeling on the front of the package), but rather that food companies should be required to place the label on the back of the package because if it was on the front it would scare consumers not to purchase ‘safe’ GMO food.

   Anyway, I just expatriated to Australia and i’ve noticed the food is much better than the U.S. It’s shocking what we can allow ourselves to get used to.

   Check out http://geneticroulettemovie.com if you get a chance.

   Cheers- love the blog. Deep Nutrition changed my life.

   1. Justus – GMOs have never been tested by the FDA. All so-called tests were done by Monsanto without any independent, peer-reviewed input. Your friend and people like her helped defeat Prop 37. The vote right now is 48.3% in favor. (Yes, CA is still counting votes.) That’s up from 47% on election day. Even though Prop 37 lost I’m amazed that 48.3% still voted Yes despite over $46 million spent on deceptive advertising against 37. Your friend should have seen through the deceptive advertising too. Tell her to be her own lab rat by eliminating GMOs from her diet for 21 days. After all, she is still eating the same food without the FOREIGN GENES. Proof is in the pudding they say.

6. Thank you!
   The more I follow you the more I feel informed, educated and confident in what I believe in and can follow for a healthy lifestyle!

7. Yes, Prop 37 lost but it won too. Did you ever think it would be on a ballot? Nope. Almost 47% voted for it despite $$45,000,000 spent by Monsanto and their minions on deceptive ads. A lot of people including many celebrities (even Charlie Sheen tweeted to vote yes on 37) jumped on board. But it was a little too late. Let’s keep the conversation going about GMOs by talking to your friends and families about GMOs. Demand non-GMO food at the stores. Vote with your $. Get on GMO Free USA facebook and become an activist. I did. At 60 years old I helped collected 850 signatures to get labeling GMOs IProp 37) on the ballot. Walk the Talk. http://www.carighttoknow.org.

8. Thanks Dr. Cate. Great summary of what went down with Prop 37. Hope as many people as possible can read this. If they didn’t know about it before, hopefully the campaign educated many folks about the dangers of GMOs and enlightened them that you are what you eat.

9. After the defeat my friend remarked it was all such a shame. I told her that it wasn’t a total loss because even though prop 37 didn’t pass, it still was a victory because now, more than ever, people are beginning to understand the dangers of GMOs. I can’t tell you how many people I educated over the last several months. Most folks simply had no idea.

   So while the Monasanto big whigs all pat themselves on the back, we can carry on the fight knowing that more and more people are on to them. And now we will vote with the best voice of all: Our dollars!

10. great article, Dr. C! linking to fb….

11. The failure of prop-37 is another good example of how well negative advertising works. As a resident of the Midwest who is only aware of the prop 37 vote and didn’t have a vote in the election, I feel that the NO champaign helped me form the opinion that I need to completely stop eating corn and soy products. Furthermore, the YES campaign has made me aware that by being careful about looking for organic products I can avoid GMO’s totally. So, win or lose, all those big factory food companies have opened my eyes to the danger of eating franken foods. I choose to protect my family in the face of unrelenting greed. Many thanks to Dr Mercola and the others who led the fight and have made this a well known issue.

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