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Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating |  | Author: Jeffrey M. Smith
Publisher: Yes! Books
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 0972966587
Dewey Decimal Number: 664
EAN: 9780972966580
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Publication Date: September 2003
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This explosive exposé reveals what the biotech industry doesnt want you to knowhow industry manipulation and political collusion, not sound science, allow dangerous genetically engineered food into your daily diet. Company research is rigged, alarming evidence of health dangers is covered up, and intense political pressure applied. Chapters read like adventure stories and are hard to put down: - Scientists were offered bribes or threatened. Evidence was stolen. Data was omitted or distorted.
- Government employees who complained were harassed, stripped of responsibilities, or fired.
- Laboratory rats fed a GM crop developed stomach lesions and seven of the forty died within two weeks. The crop was approved without further tests.
- The only independent in-depth feeding study ever conducted showed evidence of alarming health dangers. When the scientist tried to alert the public, he lost his job and was silenced with threats of a lawsuit. Read the actual internal memos by FDA scientists, warning of toxins, allergies, and new diseasesall ignored by their superiors, including a former attorney for Monsanto. Learn why the FDA withheld information from Congress after a genetically modified supplement killed nearly a hundred people and disabled thousands. Jeffrey Smith has worked in the field of GM foods for nearly a decadewith nonprofit and political groups and at a GMO detection laboratory. His masterful writing style captivates and charms, while his meticulously documented facts leave no doubt about a massive injustice. Eating such experimental food is gambling with your health. Find out how you can protect yourself and your family.
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Authoritative Account of Biotech Bullying September 28, 2009
Andrew Reed (Brussels, Belgium)
Mr Smith recounts the sickening details of collusion, between the GM-companies and the US-Government, in their joint campaign to conceal unfavourable experimental results and the fact that, in most cases, no research at all has been done into the possible ill-effects of stirring the gene-pool with an extremely blunt instrument.
Researchers who protest are hounded, defamed and dispossessed. Learned societies - like the Royal Society - and the mass-media, are bought and prostituted. The biotechs, in the process, are accumulating the patents, which - in cahoots with an emerging global governance - would permit them to control the world's food supply, without actually enhancing it!
Meanwhile, unexplained new diseases are appearing - such as the proliferating range of encephalopathies - which are linked to faults in genetic translation, but which, owing to politico-commercial pressure, are not being investigated for links with the increasing array of wierdly-constituted GMO's.
Signal warning - must-read!
Everyone should read this! September 3, 2009
Judith A. Baker (New Braunfels, TX United States)
This book will tell you what the government and media will not. It covers the dangers and the special interest dealings concerning our food and our health with regard to genetically engineered foods and the pervasive manipulation of mother nature.
It goes into great deal of detail regarding the cover-ups of true and honest scientific research proving the dangers of genetic manipulation. It also exposes the testing methods and bias that is prevalent in the world of mega agribusiness.
Read it and start your own gardens!
A Must Read! June 30, 2009
C. Gheen (Redding, CA)
The majority of people I mention genetically modified food to have very little to say about it because they don't know what it really is, much less the dangers GMO's impose on our health, the environment, and freedom of choice. This book is an easy and extremely informative read about the topic of GM foods. It is a perfect beginning to learning the history, corruption and dangers that come hand-in-hand with genetically modified food. Please read and pass on!
Astounding! Superb! An absolute bombshell! May 10, 2009
The Old Wise Man (Toowoomba AUSTRALIA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One can not exaggerate the praise that this piece of work deserves. The author does an outstanding job in researching and documenting the stunning amount of explicit deceit on the part of the regulators, GM companies and many scientists that are involved in GM research.
The way that the GM companies like Monsanto unashamedly persecute and bully those who raise safely concerns is extremely disturbing considering the potential dangers that the product poses. What is even more worrying is the distinct lack of research into the effects on humans, and what worries me even more than this is when research is done showing the harm that GM products cause, GM companies flagrantly throw their weight around to either stop the paper being published or blatantly fabricate or distort evidence to discredit the paper, even when they know that their product is unsafe. Now I'm sure that this happens in aspects of all industries, but this is entirely unacceptable with a food product, especially one as radical as GM foods.
There are so many severe risks associated with GM foods that it makes me wonder if there could ever be a situation which would warrant the gamble of using GM foods.
The main concern that I have about this book is it's age, although it is only six years old, six years in science years is a long time, much of the information that is presented in this book could well be obsolete by now.
The author explains the complex world of biology and genetics in very easy to understand English, he gives the reader a firsthand understanding of how GM is done and the problems that manifest themselves at the fundamental gene level.
I would really be hard-pressed to give this book anything less than five stars. The author addresses the issue with the uttermost impartiality and integrity.
Five Stars
Please please please read this book February 17, 2009
moviefanatic
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Seeds of Deception is foremost a very important book. It is important for anyone who eats food to read! It is well written and keeps one's interest all the way thru. How could it not!
Learn about how our dairy farmers are injecting their cows with rBGH, a genetically engineered bovine growth hormone to increase milk production. It also gives them boob infections called mastitis. So the farmers give them shots of anitbiotics, various kinds depending on the farmer, or availability. rBGH is called "cow crack" because it speeds them up. It makes them miserable and it is all to increase milk production so that farmers get more milk subsidies from the government, not because we need more milk. And does pasteurization get rid of the rBGH? No. Are we drinking it? Yes. Are we also drinking the antibiotics? Yes. Should we be drinking organic milk? Yes. Personally I have been buying organic milk only, for over four years, and it tastes better than 'ordinary' milk. Every carton is delicious, unlike regular milk which half the time I dump down the sink because it tastes terrible.
Back to the book: "Contrary to the assurances of the biotech companies that genetic engineering is precise and simply extends traditional breeding techniques, it is actually quite different. When genetic crops are engineered, the gene is inserted randomly, out of a sequence that has evolved over hundreds of millions of years. Although engineers assumed that each gene creates a single protein, the very recent discovery that human beings have only some 30,000 genes...shows that this premise was wrong. (until a few yrs ago it was believed that humans had approx 100,000 genes).
"Further, genes interact; one gene may trigger other unpredicted and undesired effects."...."The random position and lack of control of the gene's functions could change any character of the plant and might not be evident immediately." "for example , unexpected deformities in GM soy, and cotton crops." ....the accidental switching on of a host organism's gene at random...... horizontal gene transfer, where genes can jump between organisms with unpredictable consequences.
G.M. DNA does in fact transfer to bacteria in the human gut - previously thought impossible."... genetically modified organisms are not rigorously tested. They are not as nutritious as our old fashioned food. (In my opinion they don't taste very good either). Baby food, allergies, ...might affect sexual development in children and bowell obstruction...... food derived illnesses are doubled (cdc) in the past 7 yrs..... rise in allergies - 50% increase in soy allergies.
Researchers doctor their studies to avoid finding problems with GM foods. (they could lose their research grants and/or their jobs). example: re rBGH study, cows that got sick were dropped from rBGH studies while cows that were pregnant before treatment were counted as support that the drug didn't interfere with fertility.....
Conflicts of interest gallore. Suppression and vilification of scientists who try to convey research info to the public that is deemed to harm the industry. FDA corruption. "Former FDA Commissioner ' The thing that bugs me is that people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as night and day."
Biotech industry folks working in high positions in the U.S. government. "Muscling the Media; threats to sue keep absolutely everyone quiet except for a brave few (like this author). Do we ever hear discussions about gm foods on television? NO. ...do animals enjoy eating gm food? No. Is the government relying on the biotech companies to test their own products? Yes. Are they actually testing their products? No.
The White House, no matter the President , has always supported the biotech industry "at the expense of human health". Campaign contributions, bribery, billions of lobby dollars, threats, corruption, beyond belief. And not only in the U.S.. In Canada, Dr. Margaret Haydon tried to refuse to approve rBGH "due to her concerns for human health. She was taken off the case."
"Genetic engineering presents probably the largest ethical problem that science has ever had to face." "Going ahead in this direction may be not only unwise, but dangerous. Potentially, it could breed new animal and plant diseases, new sources of cancer, novel epidemics."
And of course the growers of gm crops must use specific insecticides (Roundup) manufactured by the same biotech companies that made the seeds. The list goes on and on.
An important book. Read it. You'll change your eating/buying habits immediately.
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