Top Five Ways to Avoid GMOs in Your Food

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(NaturalNews) Recent polls across the world have consistently shown that, if they had a choice, 90% of people would actively seek to avoid GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in their food. The large multinational corporations of the world have gone through extensive measures to ensure the citizens of most nations have no possible way of knowing whether the food they and their children are eating contain contaminants of GMOs. The labelling of GMOs on the packaging of any foods in the US for example, is illegal. For example, if a company like Kellogs decided to include a full disclosure label on their cereal box that stated, "contains genetically modified corn" they could be sued by the manufacturer and then face possible prison time.

This is a very important issue because the democratic process of many nations has been surreptitiously supplanted by the corporatocracy of the seed company juggernauts. America has one of the highest levels of GMOs in their food chain in the western world with up to 85% of its pre-packaged and processed foods coming from genetic engineering. The people have never asked for GMOs- but got them anyway. The people then asked that they be properly labeled so they could avoid them- they were ignored. Therefore, seeing how our health freedom and well-being is consistently under attack from large multi-national corporations only seeking to increase profits at the expense of our health, what are we to do?

What we can do is simply try to avoid the GMO contaminants altogether and be extremely vigilant of how we spend our money and which companies we are choosing to support. Here are five simple and effective ways to decrease your contact with untested, toxic and dangerous GMOs.

1.) Buy Locally Produced Food

For now, GMOs are only used by large multinational corporations who buy direct from large farms. Produce from local mom and pop farmers have yet to become genetically modified. Purchasing locally grown food supports your local farmers and your health. Not to worry about GMO tomatoes and potatoes as they have all been pulled from the market.

2.) Buy Organically Grown Food

For now, the organic certification process is a relatively safe bet to ensure your food is free of GMOs, although this may not be the case in the future. Help support global sustainability by purchasing certified organically grown food.

3.) Avoid the Top Four GMO Crops of Soy, Corn, Canola and Cottonseed

This is a bit tricky as most blended oils in North America contain canola and cottonseed. Whenever you go out to dinner and receive anything fried, you are most likely consuming GMOs from the oil, not to mention transfat. A way around this would be to purchase 100% extra virgin olive oil, but be sure to avoid the term olive oil as most of it is blended with some GMO cottonseed or canola. Unless it specifically states "Non-GMO" or some derivation on the label, it most likely contains GMOs.

Likewise, any time you go you consume corn chips, tacos or soy milk, you are eating GMOs, again unless it specifically states Non-GMO or is organic.

4.) Avoid Artificial Additives and Sweeteners

Most of use are aware of the dangers behind the artificial sweetener and excitotoxin, aspartame (known as preservative E951), but may not be aware that it is created using genetic modification. Even the majority of vitamin C (asorbic Acid) and many B vitamins have been created via genetic modification. A Japanese company was forced to pull GMO L-Tryptophan off the market in 1989 after thousands of people became severely ill with many developing an extremely rare blood disorder called, Esinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome (EMS), although the FDA never publicly mentioned that GMO contamination was the true cause of the recall.

5.) Look For the Non-GMO Label

This includes all animals used for food because most are typically fed GMO feed. If it does not state Non-GMO on the label, then email the manufacturer and ask if they use GMO feed. It is best to attempt to contact all of the manufacturers of the foods you generally eat on a daily or even weekly basis and determine whether GMOs ingredients are utilized in the food. You have a fundamental right to know whether the foods you are consuming have been contaminated with GMOs. When in doubt always look for the Non-GMO label, and unfortunately assume that it has been genetically modified unless the opposite have been explicitly stated.



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[StuartG]

Boycott the Co-Operative Food Stores until they no longer supply GMO rennet cheese in their sandwiches (like I’ve been doing). Their answer to me was, "Well you don't have to buy it if you don't want to." That's not good enough an answer for anyone.

A child will walk in, buy the sandwiches believing quite wrongly that it is safe because a business which claims to be Fair-Trade and Ethical has approved that product. Much later, I found that the product was still on sale and who is connected to the Co-Operative Food Stores, the Co-Operative Bank which claims to be flying the flag of Ethical Business. I've seen stacks of Fair-Trade coffee piled up in the bank as a kind of promotion no doubt (look in Bristol branch off Corn St.) and you may still see it. Okay, the coffee may be ethically marketed, G.M. free with a decent wage for Africans and Asians, but if you're Food Stores are also selling GMO sandwiches then isn't there a clash of policy here by the Co-Operative Bank also?

Labelling the laboratory-produced (and in time proven to be harmful) contents of a product doesn't make it safe does it? They're just telling you that they're adding it. What I really hate about GM is that it is hard to prove it’s safety and eventual affect on us at a very deep level. Trace the money-makers back to the Rockefellers or a Foundation (tax-exempt ofcourse). You will find the board members who approved it are the same as on the FDA and these Untouchables are saying, “THERE’S NO PROOF OF THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF GM, SO WHAT’S THE PROBLEM LITTLE MAN?”

What's ethical about selective gene modification? Knock 'em out and switch their genes off. “We patent human genomes now. You belong to us. Come join us, work for Celera Genomics, you’ll like the pay.”

BBBRRRRINGG…."Hello, is that the complaints number for the Co-Operative Food Stores? I'm going to send you an article about the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS plan to have control of the organic side of your business."

"Codex wha? Never heard of it. You’re one of these paranoids… HUNG UP (A problem with the line no doubt)."

I came across a nice little website some time ago against GM, GMO’s and CODEX ALIMENTARIUS with a number of videos:

www.healthfreedomusa.org

Yes, they want to kill off the Organic Trade.
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P.S. I like the idea of locally produced food. No more tired truckers sending us fruit which is growing old, less pollution, less repairs for the roads. Shopkeepers, why aren’t you thinking of cancelling that milk produced 400 miles away and buying local instead? It’s cheaper in Glasgow you say? But you’re not doing much for the Eco-Society. If everyone buys local on the whole planet we cut down on the transport and then there’s no need for preservatives in food. No need to IMPORT and therefore you will break the Elite’s plan of creating trade dependent on OUTSOURCING from other countries which is also about DEPENDENCY = NO CHOICE and that will make it difficult to maintain ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE which is a stumbling block to eliminating National Sovereignty.

What happens when you are dependent from a supplier hundreds of miles away? If the company goes bust you have to start all over again. Local Dependency in trade IS the answer.

As for no labelling, it goes back to the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS which will no longer require any labelling even for GM produce!

If it's not Organic it should be considered to be unedible.

And keep an eye on the label:MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF: SOYA, WHEAT, NUTS, X, X, X.

This clever little label I'm sure is going to be added to and could be the back door to allow all kinds of nasty substances in that were never meant to be added. The Organic producers will have to watch over that one.