| The Western diet has a love affair with "fast | | | | tables in our homes and our restaurants being |
| food". There are sugar laden breakfast cereals, | | | | eaten by millions. There are no labels to advise us |
| snack cakes, fruit juices, and soft drinks. Our | | | | as a society what we are eating; it is to the |
| frozen, "already prepared" dinners and appetizers | | | | benefit of these "genetically modified" food |
| are high in sodium. Then add into that our "fast | | | | companies to keep the consumer ignorant. |
| food" restaurants with foods high in fat and | | | | Many scientists believe that many chronic illnesses |
| cholesterol, including but not limited to fried | | | | and diseases and the weakening of the immune |
| hamburgers, French fries, fried chicken, fried pies | | | | system may be a result of these biotechnological |
| and the list goes on. These are a few of the food | | | | altered foods. This could account for innumerable |
| choices made every day by millions of people in | | | | cancers, the unexplained auto-immune diseases |
| our society. Study after study has shown us that | | | | such as CFS, Fibromyalgia, Epstein-Barr Syndrome |
| a diet of these foods will adversely affect our | | | | to name a few, as well as chronic headaches, |
| health. Eating too much sugar can result in | | | | migraines, even arthritis and other chronic |
| diabetes...too much sodium can result in high blood | | | | inflammatory diseases. No one knows for sure |
| pressure....too much fat can result in clogged | | | | what the long term effects will be on the human |
| arteries leading to coronary and heart disease. All | | | | body. No one knows for what the long term |
| these things combined can lead to obesity which | | | | effects will be on our future generations. |
| then begins to affect our bones, joints, cartilage | | | | The facts known and documented are only on |
| and nervous system. Before long, you have a | | | | the effects of the animals being injected with this |
| body with chronic disease(s) and riddled with | | | | DNA altering technology. Some cows and pigs |
| inflammation! | | | | injected with growth hormones have suffered |
| These are our obvious "food enemies", but what | | | | from unspeakable nervous system side effects, |
| about the unobvious? What other "foods" in our | | | | unable to walk or even stand. Some are so |
| common Western diet, could result in chronic | | | | grossly large that they suffer respiratory distress |
| disease? According to Andrew Kinbrall AAL, the | | | | and skeletal breakdown. DNA altered fish have |
| Head of Food Safety in Washington, D.C., All our | | | | produced offspring with birth defects and chickens |
| food sources are questionable. Our food supply is | | | | that have been altered tot extinguish the brooking |
| being "genetically polluted" from the very first link | | | | instinct have exhibited aggressive behavior. Even |
| in the food chain, the SEED! Scientists are just | | | | our wildlife is being put at risk with genetic altered |
| now beginning to study and question the affects | | | | grains and the escape of genetic altered fish into |
| of DNA altered foods on humans. In our quest to | | | | our streams and rivers. This genetic revolution has |
| produce bigger and better foods, we may have | | | | not been observed in a real ecosystem with real |
| opened ourselves up to a biotechnological | | | | organisms and there could be an ecological |
| nightmare. | | | | catastrophe or alarming disease. |
| Professor Terje Traavie at the institute of Gene | | | | Everyone must take responsibility for their own |
| Ecology in Norway is researching what effects | | | | health and know as much as they can about what |
| genetically modified foods may have on | | | | they put into their bodies. We cannot depend on |
| organisms. His study of mice injected with growth | | | | the purity of our food sources off the shelf or |
| hormones has shown that the foreign DNA | | | | plate anymore. That healthy looking salad filled |
| material is found in their internal organs and then | | | | with fruits and/or vegetables, nuts, seeds, baked |
| gone on to invade their DNA. His concerns are | | | | chicken strips and drizzled with olive oil, just may |
| that there is no control groups for these | | | | be a ticking time bomb when it comes to our |
| "genetically modified" foods which are on our | | | | bodies and "chronic disease"! |