Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food
Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food by Beth H. Harrison, PhD is awarded 1st place (gold) winner 2008 “Outstanding Book of the Year—Most Progressive Health Book”
Independent Publisher (IPPY) Awards honor the year's best independently published titles; this year's contest attracted 3,175 entries. Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food was awarded 1st place gold medal winner of "Outstanding Book of the Year—Most Progressive Health Book," exhibiting "the courage and creativity necessary to take chances and bring about change, not only to the world of publishing, but to society…" This book also won an Eric Hoffer Award in health and two Next Generation Indie Awards in health/wellness and current events categories.
Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food delves into how some of the top corporations that control your food have repeatedly done business at the expense of public health. These are some of the same companies that brought us Agent Orange, PCBs, and DDT (http://www.thetruthaboutgmos.com/
Biotechnology scientists are changing the most fundamental characteristics of the food we eat without knowing what it will do to people who eat it. As far as US regulatory agencies are concerned, if a biotech company SAYS its products are safe, that is enough for approval.
An estimated 70-75% of processed foods on supermarket shelves—from soda to soup, snack food, cereals to microwave food, even baby food and infant formula—contain unlabeled GE ingredients. Yet GE foods have never been proven safe for human consumption.
In fact, nearly every independent laboratory animal feeding study on GE food shows adverse or unexplained effects. According to independent scientists, human health effects of consuming GE food can include toxic and allergic reactions, antibiotic resistance, immune suppression, and other serious illnesses.
“We just haven't seen outward physical effects of GE food yet,” says Harrison. “It could well be that we've got a ticking time bomb in our systems.”
When GE food was introduced over a decade ago, it was promoted as a solution to some of the world’s food problems; however, these crops do not benefit consumers, do not feed the world or make food prices cheaper, and do not help the environment. Multinational corporations engineer seeds for food crops so they can own and control the world's food supply and sell their chemicals to use with their proprietary GE seeds.
The good news?
You don’t have to eat GE food again. Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food explores why and how you have been kept in the dark about GE foods and the risks, why these foods continue to go unlabeled, and outlines what foods to avoid and how to take action.
As a consumer, your dollars wield the most influence. Eating GE food contributes to multinational corporations that are interested in profits over your health. You choose with your dollars—and you can make a difference.
“It is important to realize that unlabeled genetically altered food affects you every time you eat,” she says. “Become informed. Only then will you be empowered to make the right decisions for you and your family.”
Excerpt of book review by Chris Gupta, Canadian health advocate:
“...Not only does the book provide the badly needed exposure, it ends with a good action plan to empower us on how to protect ourselves. Information contained in it will go a long way to build a much needed critical mass of knowledge before many will be able to demand accountability from their politicians, media, food and medical, and educational institutions...Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food is a worthy handbook for action.”
Beth H. Harrison, PhD, has been in public relations, marketing, and consulting and involved in the health field for more than twenty years. She has spoken publicly about GE food, has been interviewed on numerous radio shows and for magazines and newspapers, and will appear in a documentary called The Beautiful Truth scheduled to be released in September.
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