Genetically Modified Foods

Thanks for sharing. Truly terrible what is happening in commercial farming. I have been very careful lately about buying from small farms and organic but it's very expensive and sometimes makes it impossible to eat out. I also only eat humanely raised meats, that gets expensive as well - it's lucky I don't have a family to feed.

watch the documentary "king of corn" they use bacterias to deliver the genetic mutations that make the corn more resillient and pretty. they also feed not "human food grade" corn to the livestock we eat, so we're eating it anyway. they also found that the pigs who ate this corn developed ulcers in their intestines... hmmm. then they feed these sick UC pigs to the public... hmmm... they also discovered in the mid 90's (and all the time actually) that this same non-human food grade corn made it into the products we were eating. wonder who got rich off of that "accident?"

 so maybe i ate some bad geneticially mutated/mutating, bacteria rich, intestinal ulcer causing pork tacos when i was a teenager that altered my genetic makeup and i passed it on to my child... well that sucks.

 wonder if this is the reason he likes corn products so much.

what else sucks is that if the Organic foods you are growing and buying and eating are not grown from heirloom seeds, then they are grown from the same genetically mutated seeds that the industrial farms use.

wow, i sound like a conspiracy theorist.

GGRRRRR! :)

I don't have UC. my point was that we don't know what we are eating or how it affects us, which makes the saying "you are what you eat" a pretty scary prospect. none of the food groups are safe anymore.
my cousin feeds her daughter all organic and presumably hormone free foods. yet her 7 year old is growing breasts. she is not overweight. is this the new human evolution?

again, i'm sounding like a conspiracy theorist. :)

I've found this website to be particularly interesting & helpful, when one is trying to sort out the "organic vs. non-organic" dilemma. It's www.cornucopia.org     The chart of what organic means is so insightful. Re. GMO's, they're nearly unavoidable. But, so are other types of potential body pollutants we may know nothing about yet. I don't know, you just do what you can do. I'm lucky (I suppose!) in that I don't believe any certain foods or chemicals causes UC. So while I do eat locally raised meats, & have been dealing with garden produce for far too long now, I made those choices for ethical reasons, not necessarily health reasons.

Beans, corns, rice, peas, etc. unless it says non-GMO on the label, we won't know for sure.

Interestingly, GMO products have been banned in Europe for more than five years now. Unluckily for us, it's still out there in the market.

Ulcerative colitis, known by many other names (leaky gut, etc), has been around for thousands of years so it can't all be about GMO's. I am an organic gardener and buy the least modified food possible and am careful about cleaning solutions (which can slip through your skin into your bloodstream) but I just don't think my UC came from GMO's although they could have contributed in sneaky ways.

I hope humankind doesn't put itself out of existence through stupidity and greed but things don't look good sometimes.

I've never heard UC being called leaky gut...ever.

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Good link.

Yes, I do know what leaky gut is, and relationship or precursor...maybe. But UC isn't and has never been called leaky gut. even though one can have leaky gut with UC.

It's not an interchangeable name.

That's like saying emphysema is asthma or vice versa.  Asthma attacks can be in an emphysemic state, but it's not emphysema.

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BabeintheWoods,

Thanks for the info, and yes I was aware of the Leaky Gut connection to IBD - which also causes major problems with nutritional malabsorption.

That's why IMO, the multi-pronged approach is so important. In my view, doctors really don't know all that much except to throw drugs at you - and they ony bandaid the problem, without getting to real solutions, real fixes, actual sources of problems.

I remember when GMP first starting coming on the market and agriculture starting pushing back by claiming that it was just like hybrids and no big deal. Then I talked to a farmer I know. He told me they were modifying crops so that the produced their own pesticides and to become resistant to herbicides like roundup. That can't be done with hybrids. It is scary too.

All chemicals have negative effects to go along with the positives. I can't see how enabling heavier use of pesticides on food crops or munching on food with it's own pesticides inside can be good for us.

Antibiotic use in meat production is another disaster waiting to happen.

AZYooper,

The industry fighting against labeling GMOs and BGH in milk is just plain wrong.

Yes, just like the drug pushers at the big pharmas pushing the FDA to approve drug trials which are approved by their board members sitting on the FDA... same greed and corruption, except it's seen as ok and actually reliable.