Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

I just read an interesting and alarming article about the FDA and our food.  The FDA only inspects only 25% of all U.S. food facilities. As someone with multiple chemical sensitivity, I am very concerned about our food supply.

Here’s a bit from the article:

Do you wash your store-bought, pre-washed salad mix? Do you have a reverse osmosis filter on your home drinking water? Are you still buying packaged ground beef from your local supermarket, despite the numerous warnings? Do you care if there may be trace amounts of BPA in your canned soup? If you have anything to say about any of the above issues, or the myriad of health hazards and food safety issues that have plagued the national food system for the past few years, than the fine folks at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) want to hear from you.

Check out the rest of the article at:

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/the-fda-is-out-of-ideas-needs-your-help-to-keep-produce-safe.html

Until next time,

Karen Cioffi

Genetically modified (GM) crops have become a horror for those suffering with allergies and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS).

Allergies and MCS are a result of our immune systems becoming over stimulated and our livers not being able to process and eliminate all the toxins that we are bombarded with.

But, the powers that be are only concerned with the might dollar and profits–harmful side effects for the masses does not fit into the equation.

In an article at Mercola.com the effects of GM foods are frightening:

In the only human feeding study ever published on genetically modified foods, seven volunteers ate so-called Roundup-ready soybeans. These are soybeans that have herbicide-resistant genes inserted into them in order to survive being sprayed with otherwise deadly doses of Roundup herbicide.

In three of the seven volunteers, the gene inserted into the soy transferred into the DNA of their intestinal bacteria, and continued to function long after they stopped eating the GM soy!

No one is sure of the possible long term effects of genetically modifying foods, but this doesn’t stop the process from being done .

According to the same article:

About 85 percent of the corn grown corn grown is genetically engineered to either produce an insecticide, or to survive the application of herbicide. And about 91-93 percent of all soybeans are genetically engineered to survive massive doses of Roundup herbicide.

So, what this means is that almost any food product you buy that has corn or soy will most likely have the GM form in it. And, we’re not just talking about corn and soy, we’re talking about all their derivatives such as high fructose corn syrup.

But, these aren’t the only foods that are genetically modified there is also cottonseed and canola to name two.

I try hard to buy organic foods, but I if I’m not mistaken, when you buy a food labeled organic it means the product has to be at least 70% organic and not include sewer sludge.

What a world!

Until next time,

Karen Cioffi

http://karencioffi.com