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Why Savvy Vegetarian Is Against Genetically Modified Food

From an interview by 'noseweek', South African investigative magazine, with Jeffrey Smith, author of 'the non-gmo bible' Seeds of Deception, exposing bad science behind gmos, government and biotech industry lies.

There are many ways in which a GMO food could create toxins, allergens, carcinogens, or nutritional problems.

The process of inserting a gene into a DNA can dramatically disrupt the normal genes. One study showed that as many as 5% of the natural genes changed their levels of expression when a single gene was inserted.

Genes can get turned off or deleted, switched on permanently, scrambled, duplicated, or relocated. Gene insertion coupled with growing cells from tissue culture, creates hundreds or thousands of mutations throughout the genome.

On top of all this, the inserted gene can get mutated, truncated, or blended with the crop’s natural gene code. And it appears that the inserted genes get rearranged over time as well. Any of these changes can create serous problems in themselves, or set in motion a chain of reactions that can lead to problems.

Tragically, the studies conducted on GMO crops are not designed to identify the vast majority of possible problems. When scientists understand the dangers involved with GMO technology and then discover what studies are actually conducted, they’re shocked. They realize the extent to which consumers are being used as guinea pigs, just so the biotech industry doesn’t have to spend the money doing the proper research.

There are fewer than 20 peer-reviewed animal-feeding safety studies. And many of these are industry-funded and clearly rigged to avoid finding problems. No, GMO crops are NOT adequately tested for safety!

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