[Homesteadingfamily] Re: More reasons to avoid soy....

Yes, most seeds are GMO. Look into MONSANTO and you will see that they
have pretty much taken over food production or adulteration, depending
on how one looks at it. And most refined and processed foods, even raw
produce conventionally raised are a product of GMO. We try to buy
organic or better yet, raise our own food. If you buy heritage or
organic seeds, you should be pretty safe. This takes quite a bit of
research, and you will probably be shocked at what you find, but it is
worth it to change now rather than years down the road of eating this
junk only to find out that "they" were wrong..and GMO'ing foods DOES
indeed hurt human and animal life.~deb
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> This is very interesting to me... I am just learning about GM foods
etc. As
> we try to change our diets in my home etc. I have 5 kids and want them
to
> have healthy foods to eat! Is the seed you buy at stores modified in
any
> way???
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> -------Original Message-------
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> From: Deb
> Date: 11/20/2010 2:03:06 PM
> To: Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Homesteadingfamily] More reasons to avoid soy....
>
>
> We are a "soy free" farm here. We do not eat it unless it is fermented
> as in Shoyu soy sauce from Japan, or other fermented forms.The
research
> shows that it is simply not the "health" food that it is touted to be.
> After reading the book "The Whole Soy Story" a fe years ago, we
stopped
> using it...not even in our animals feeds. Something to think about for
> sure...~deb
>
> In this interview, Jeffrey Smith, author of the bestseller Seeds of
> Deception,
> and Genetic Roulette, discusses the latest GMO research findings
coming
> out of
> Russia, which adds fuel to previous concerns about long-term sterility
> and other
> highly bizarre physiological side effects.
>
> I strongly believe that one of the most obvious clues about the danger
> of GMO
> foods are that just about EVERY species of animal that is offered a
GMO
> food
> versus a non-GMO food will avoid the GMO one. Many times they will do
> this to
> the point of starvation, as they have an intuitive sense of the danger
> of this
> food.
> >Please listen to the interview as Jeffery expands on this point in
> great detail.
> >It's one you can use to effectively share with your friends and
> family who are
> >not yet convinced of the dangers of GMO foods.
> >If you have more time with them you can bring up the sterility
argument
> that is
> >expanded upon with these new research findings. You might have read
> this before
> >that genetically modified foods may cause sterility in future
> generations but
> >now the latest research from Russia provides shocking confirmation of
> this
> >potential.
> >This study, which was conducted by the Russian equivalent of the US
> National
> >Association for Gene Security, has not yet been published, but its
> findings were
> >recently announced. It's anticipated that the details will be
> published later
> >this summer.
> Russian Scientists Find Third Generation of Hamsters Sterilized by GM
> Soy
> The release of this new information provides yet another health risk,
> and
> confirmation on earlier problems related to fertility, birth weight of
> offspring, and infant mortality.
>
> >In this feeding study they used hamsters, an animal which has not
been
> >previously featured in GM safety studies.
> >One group of hamsters was fed a normal diet without any soy
whatsoever,
> a second
> >group was fed non-GMO soy, a third ate GM soy, and a fourth group ate
> an even
> >higher amount of GM soy than the third.
> >Using the same genetically modified (GM) soy that is produced on over
> 90 percent
> >of the soy acreage in the US, the hamsters and their offspring were
fed
> their
> >respective diets over a period of two years, during which time the
> researchers
> >evaluated three generations of hamsters.
> >First they took five pairs of hamsters from each group, each of which
> produced
> >about seven to eight litters each, totaling about 140 animals.
> >At first all went well, but serious problems became apparent when
they
> selected
> >new pairs from the offspring.
> >
> >The first problem was that this second generation had a slower growth
> rate and
> >reached their sexual maturity later than normal.
> >However, this second generation eventually generated another 39
> litters:
> > * The no-soy control group had 52 pups
> > * The non-GM soy had 78
> > * The GM soy had only 40, of which 25 percent died
> >So these second-generation GM soy-fed hamsters had a five-fold higher
> infant
> >mortality rate, compared tothe 5 percent normal death rate that was
> happening in
> >the controls.
> Nearly All of the Third-Generation GMO Babies Were Sterile!
> But then an even bigger problem became apparent, because nearly all of
> the third
> generation hamsters lost the ability to have babies altogether.
>
> >Only a single third-generation female hamster gave birth to 16 pups,
> and of
> >those, one fifth died.
> >In short, nearly the entire third generation of GM soy eaters were
> sterile!
> >But it doesn't end there.
> >In the GM soy-fed groups they also found an unusually high prevalence
> of an
> >otherwise extremely rare phenomenon â€" hair growing inside the
> animals' mouths.
> >(You can see the images here.)
> >Says Smith:
> >"â€¦ it's a very rare phenomenon but he [study author, Dr.
> Surov] had never in his
> >life seen more hair in mouths of hamsters than with these GM soy-fed,
> third
> >generation hamsters."
> >
> As you may know, genetically modified crops weren't released until
> 1996,
> starting with GM soy, corn and cotton. Modified canola came about a
year
> later.
>
> Please remember humans have MUCH longer life spans than rats and that
> GMO foods
> were only introduced in 1996. This is LESS than one generation.
>
> So we're still nowhere near seeing the full effects of these
> potential
> ramifications in humans, as we're only about 15 years into it. But
> if the
> effects are anything like the effects on numerous types of animals, we
> could be
> looking at sterility on a grand scale as our great-grandchildren grow
up
> and
> begin to try to procreate...
> The fact that the US is completely unwilling to implement the
> precautionary
> principle with regards to GM foods is incomprehensible in light of the
> findings
> we already have from animal studies.
>
> Additionally, some 800 genetically engineered food applications have
> been
> submitted to the USDA, but not one single environmental impact
statement
> has
> been prepared. So not only are human health ramifications ignored, but
> the
> entire eco system is being jeopardized.
>
> http://articles. mercola.com/ sites/articles/ archive/2010/
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