Food for Thought: Toxic Nutrition?
Right to know march. Source: Daquella manera on flickr.com
You are What You Eat.
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In January 2012, Environmental chemist Brian P. Jackson, and his research team at Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program found dangerous amounts of arsenic, a colorless and odorless poison, in organic powdered baby formula. The culprit was reported to be organic brown rice syrup. According to Jackson, “That infant formula contained six times more arsenic than the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe for the water supply [ABC News].
Arsenic is a naturally occurring element widely distributed in the earth’s crust. Inorganic arsenic compounds are mainly used to preserve wood. Copper chromated arsenate (CCA) is used to make “pressure-treated” lumber. CCA is no longer used in the U.S. for residential uses; it is still used in industrial applications. Organic arsenic compounds are used as pesticides, primarily on cotton fields and orchards. [Exerpted from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, ATSDR]
This news and information is enough to send any health food enthusiast into a tail spin.
POISON ON THE PLATTER: A Closer Look
It is jarring to equate our very nutrition with systematic ingestion of poison.
In this sobering documentary, renowned filmmaker and social activist Mahesh Bhatt sees genetically modified foods an act of bioterrorism. How does food become a terrorist weapon of mass destruction? A recent study at Perdue University reveals GMO corn pesticides as major players in bee colony collapse. Bees pollinate over 30 percent of the world food crops and 90 percent of wild plants. [NRDC] Imagine a third of our food sources wiped out and almost all wild foliage anihilated? Unfortunately, one does not need to imagine the adverse health effects that pesticides and antbiotics in foods have on humans. We are seeing it now ln the form of increasing numbers of children with nut allergies, rising cases of antibiotic resistant pathogens, autoimmune disorders, cancers, digestive disorders and more. However, pesticides are not included in the defintion of a bioterrorist attack.
A bioterrorism attack is the deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, or other germs (agents) used to cause illness or death in people, animals, or plants. – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Did you catch a glimpse of the illegally imported U.S. food brands identified as containing GMO foods?
Found Today by Eve: Interesting Labels at a Local Restaurant
Everytime we purchase food, we make a quality of life decision. As seen in this film, people in India and Europe have committed to mobilize citizens through grassroots education. In the US, consumers are now using their wallets to turn the tides.
According to a recent Mambo Sprouts marketing survey, 93% of the 1,000 health food consumers are not buying GMO foods and want to know more about non-GMO foods, and 53% of those surveyed are planning to buy more non-GMO foods this year. [The Organic and Non-GMO Report ].
The gauntlet has been thrown. The challenge is on.
Do you trust what’s on your plate?
Here's a neat iPhone App I found for those who are interested in Non-GMO shopping: http://itunes.apple.com/app/shopnogmo/id393454798...
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