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

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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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 – hair growing inside the
animals' mouths.
>(You can see the images here.)
>Says Smith:
>"… 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/
05/22/jeffrey- smith-interview- april-24. aspx
<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/22/jeffrey-s\
mith-interview-april-24.aspx>

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