By Ishtar Babilu Dingir
You may be surprised to hear that you need five ways to avoid GM foods in UK supermarkets. That’s because you weren’t aware that, sad to say, it seems that GM foods are being introduced, slowly and covertly, in different ways, into the foods in UK supermarkets. After all, in this country, we have been proud of our stance on GM foods, and this has largely kept them out – until now…
Through a mix of EU legislation and backroom deals with the biotech industries, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the government, which ever party is in power, has sold out to the demands of the big biotech giants. This is despite the fact that many scientifically-controlled tests have proven that GM foods make you sick, sterile and obese.
No wonder, when for thousands of years, man has thrived on foods produced by breeding techniques that bring together two closely related parent plants. This is a natural kind of breeding, and could happen over evolutionary time without any human interference. Not so with genetically modified strains.
“Big Pharmers” happily combine a fish gene with a tomato, or a bacteria acting as a pesticide with corn, so that we eat the pesticide along with the food. These “Frankenfoods” cause stomach inflammation, bowel disease, thinning of intestinal walls, breast cancer, kidney and liver disease, low sperm count, sterility and stillbirths.
At The Therapy Book, we teach people about how to stay well and healthy the natural way – and the most important rule is, you are what you eat. So our members would often us ask about which foods were best to eat and, over time, we began to realise that all was not as it seems in the UK, in terms of GM foods. It seemed as if there was some sort of mission creep going on…. that government ministers here were hand-in-glove with the US biotech industry … and we turned out to be right.
Number One
There was not even one list, pamphlet or book in the UK giving information about which foods were safe from GM contamination in the UK. So the first point to tell you is that we decided to publish one and it’s out now. It’s a book on Amazon’s Kindle store called Shop GMO Free in the UK, and it will give you GM information on thousands of foods across hundreds of brands in UK supermarkets.
Get it here on Amazon
If you don’t have a Kindle, get a free reader app for computers, tablets and mobile phones here
Number Two
Here’s the second pointer you will need, to avoid GM foods in the UK.
Most of the world’s soya supplies are contaminated with genetically modified ingredients, and a significant proportion of processed foods you find in UK supermarkets contain soya.
Even in the rare instance where the soya can be guaranteed to have come from a GM-free or organic source, soya isn’t good for you anyway. Soya is packed full of things called isoflavons, which are endocrine disrupters – in other words, they play havoc with your hormonal balance. Soya isoflavones can also stimulate the proliferation and activity of cells in the breasts … which can lead to breast cancer.
Not only that, but farmers require high levels of Monsanto’s herbicide, Roundup, to grow soya, which tests have shown is bad for human health.
In our Shop GMO Free in the UK book, you will be able to see at a glance which manufacturers can’t guarantee that their soya is GMO-free.
Number Three
Point number three is equally worrying – so hold on to your hat!
To be sure of avoiding GM contamination in the UK, you’ll have to source your meat and dairy from local, organic suppliers – few other food outlets can be 100 per cent trusted anymore.
We wrote to all the major UK supermarkets, and none of them could guarantee that their meat and dairy came from animals fed on GM-free feed – apart from some of the Sainsbury SO organic range.
The bio-tech companies argue that GM tainting cannot be passed from the bloodstream of an animal to the human, but they are wrong. Meat and dairy from animals in processed foods are known as ‘secondary products’ and you will find links under this article to scientific studies showing the dangers of consuming ‘secondary products’ contaminated with GMs.
However, under EU law, the food producers aren’t legally required to list on their food labels when their ‘secondary products’ contain GM ingredients. So we asked them directly, and you will find the results in our book.
Number Four
Which brings us to point number 4.
Currently, there’s a huge, transatlantic trade deal being rushed through the EU, with MEPs barely being given the time to rubber stamp it, let alone read it. This trade deal, between the United States of America and the European Union, is known as TTIP – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
If TTIP goes through, it could enable the biotech companies, via secret corporate courts, to attack the UK’s ban on genetically modified foods. It could mean that our government would not only be powerless to prevent GM foods entering Britain, but that it would be prosecuted if it tried to do so.
The only power you would have in this situation is not to buy these GM foods when they come flooding in… and that’s where our Shop-GMO-Free book will be vital.
But you can still act now to register your opposition to TTIP by writing to your MEP – and it’s essential that you do so. For some as yet unfathomable reasons, letters to MPs and MEPs seem to have more impact than any petitions or marches. So there’s a link to an article with a template letter for you to write with an easy way to find your own MEP’s address, at the end of this article.
Number Five
Point five gives you an example of the sort of information you’ll find in Shop GMO Free in the UK.
We found that many of the big global food producers go to some effort to source non-GM for the UK, but not so Osem, which is owned by Nestle. It turned out that 16 of Osem’s products contain genetically modified ingredients – the specific ones can be found in our book.
So that’s it – five ways to avoid GM foods in the UK.
For more information on the dangers of genetically modified foods, please check out the Further Reading links below.
Hopefully, Shop GMO Free in the UK will help you to make wise choices in buying foods that are good for you and your family and will make a tremendous difference to your health and the quality of your life.
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Shop GMO-Free In The UK
The definitive A-Z guide to the GM status of thousands of foods in the UK
Get it on Amazon here:
If you don’t have a Kindle, get a free reader app for computers, tablets and mobile phones here
At last, the first book to show the genetically modified (GM) status of thousands of foods across hundreds of brands on sale now in British shops and supermarkets, with easy to search, at a glance A-Z lists.
With the Shop GMO-Free in the UK ebook at your fingertips, you’ll be able to join with us, to ‘persuade’ food manufacturers what sorts of foods they should be supplying us with, in a language they can understand. In other words, we can vote with our shopping baskets!
With this ebook, it couldn’t be easier – it’s the no hassle way to buy foods for yourself and your family that are guaranteed by their manufacturers to be free from GMOs and from products from animals fed on GMO-free feed.
Get it now
Endorsed by Steven Drucker, author of Altered Genes, Twisted Truth.
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FURTHER READING
UK ministers hold secret meetings with biotech companies to promote GMOs
Is soya good or bad for you?
Extreme levels of Monsanto’s Roundup are now the norm in GM soya
New study proves that GMOs fed to animals can jump species into humans who eat them
Exogenous plant MIR168a specifically targets mammalian LDLRAP1: evidence of cross-kingdom regulation by microRNA by Lin Zhang et al
10 reasons why TTIP is bad for good food and farming and write to your MEP.