How genetically engineered foods affect your gut

Interesting and scary article how genetically engineered foods affect your gut.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/15/dr-don-huber-interview-part-2.aspx?e_cid=20120115_SNL_Art_1

One more reason to buy only non-GMO, organic fruits and veggies, and grass-fed animal products only.

"...It's important to understand that the glyphosate actually becomes systemic throughout the plant, so it cannot be washed off. It's inside the plant. And once you eat it, it ends up in your gut where it can wreak total havoc with your health, considering the fact that 80 percent of your immune system resides there and is dependent on a healthy ratio of good and bad bacteria."

"[When] you look at the stomachs of the GMO-fed [animals], they have all of the severe allergy responses, the inflammation and the reddening… When they looked at the intestine, they said that the intestinal lining is deteriorating… The smell of the intestinal contents is very rank. The biology has been drastically changed.

This [German] doctor said, "That's exactly what we're seeing with our children with autism."

Yes, I quite agree. Chilling indeed.

But many people don't realize that organic doesn't necessarily mean non-grain fed, and quite a few of the small true organic farms have been bought out by big agra, enabling big agra to retain the "organic" label which no longer applies. It now behooves any of us to trust the "organic" label on most major company food products. The only way to know for certainty is to buy locally - from a local organic grower.

Anyway, I don't know if you've seen this before, but it's interesting:

Here's your cheat-sheet to figuring out labels on meats and other products...