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Great Book that everyone needs to read, November 27, 2007
This book provides interesting information I hadn't read anywhere else. It is easy to read (for the average person who is not a scientist) and shows how it affects me and my family. It made me think twice about what I buy at the grocery store and what my children are eating.
Not only did it present the disturbing reality about genetically engineered food and how we have all been kept in the dark about the serious health risks, it also gave me ideas about what I can do and what options I have. If someone reads this book and doesn't stop eating genetically modified food, at least now the consumer will make a conscious decision about it (to eat it or not). That's more than our government or the biotechnology companies have done. I appreciate having read this information.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book everyone needs to read, November 27, 2007
This review is from: Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food: What You Don’t Know About the Food You’re Eating and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself (Paperback)
This book provides interesting information I hadn't read anywhere else. It is easy to read (for the average person who is not a scientist) and shows how it affects me and my family. It made me think twice about what I buy at the grocery store and what my children are eating.
Not only did it present the disturbing reality about genetically engineered food and how we have all been kept in the dark about the serious health risks, it also gave me ideas about what I can do and what options I have. If someone reads this book and doesn't stop eating genetically modified food, at least now the consumer will make a conscious decision about it (to eat it or not). That's more than our government or the biotechnology companies have done. I appreciate having read this information.
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A must-read, February 17, 2009
This review is from: Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food: What You Don’t Know About the Food You’re Eating and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself (Paperback)
Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food is a well-written and highly interesting book that everyone in this country should read. More importantly it is an extremely brave and important book. If you want to make yourself knowledgeable about what you are eating and what you are feeding your children, read this book. I purchased this book along with Seeds of Deception and Public Health and Agricultural Biotechnology in order to become familiar with genetic engineering of our food supply. The three books are different enough to make reading all three worth while.
This book deals with the patenting of genes, the buy-up and patenting of as many of the seeds in the world that the bio companies can get their hands on so that they can replace them with bio-engineered seeds which prevent the grower or farmer from collecting seeds for the next planting season. It explains how the very government agencies that are supposed to be protecting us citizens are merely puppets of the bio-engineering companies . They not only make or unmake laws in favor of the bio companies but the employees of the bio companies go to work for the very agencies that are supposed to be overseeing the bio companies.
Carol Tucker Foreman, who previously worked for the USDA and as a Monsanto lobbyist helped push rBGH (growth hormone) into the American milk supply without labeling. ...our Research and Development tax dollars are going to select universities and colleges for R&D on only one field of science - life science . "Life Science" folks. Whenever you hear this term, be afraid. Life Science, life science, life science...genetic engineering...
Bio-tech companies such as Monsanto and Dow use their billions of dollars to eliminate laws that would make them liable for death or injury. They've put into place laws that keep them from having to hand over any test results on G.E. products. They work in the FDA and USDA and have complete control over anything that would interfere with flooding the American food supply with genetically engineered products. They donate huge sums of money to universities whose scientists must then write in favor of the bio companies or face losing their grants and/or jobs. Any university who accepts funds from any bio-engineering company can not be trusted. Their scientists have lost credibility but they don't care, they need the money. States are writing legislation authorizing state agencies to provide financial assistance for the construction of biotechnology research facilities AND prohibiting local governments from regulating industry activities at all. And think job creation and R&D tax credits. Think campaign contributions and bribery on massive scales. Think of forcing small farmers out of business and polluting organic crops with their Frankenstein pollen. Then there is internet subterfuge and the attempt to brainwash our children in school.
Think about 40,000 registered lobbyists spending billions of dollars to influence our representatives in Congress. How about laws eliminating free-speech rights and imposing censorship on the media regarding concerns of food safety issues. Oh, conflict of interest here , there, and everywhere in the FDA and USDA. Too many to mention here but my favorite is: Margaret Miller, one of Monsanto's researchers , who put together the report on rBGH (the growth hormone that is injected into cows to increase milk production which gives them infections and shorter life spans and we happen to be drinking rBGH in our milk supply). Shortly before her submission of the report to the FDA, she left Monsanto and was hired by the FDA as deputy director of the office of New Animal Drugs!!! "One of Miller's first jobs was to determine if she should approve the report she wrote for Monsanto. She approved it."!
The book Seeds of Deception focuses sharply on the problems with genetically engineered foods. This book also has that but not as in depth, more like in summary, but the major focus in Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food is the massive corruption involving this industry and its intricate and profitable connection with the U.S. government and the use of U.S. citizens as guinea pigs. Also included: The bullying and blackmail used to force the rest of the world to buy genetically engineered foods and most of all the deception and absolutely heartless corruption of the FDA and USDA.
Please read this most excellent book: Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Foods.
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