More on Genetically Modified Food - Sugar Beets

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has just released a statement regarding the Dangers of GMO substances. Here is the Original Statement, should you desire to get it from the source. The recent proliferation of GMO foods for human consumption has been associated with the rise in early puberty as well as reproductive disorders and infertility.

A related issue: (NaturalNews for complete story) More than 70 companies have signed a pledge promising to avoid using sugar from genetically modified sugar beets "wherever possible."Genetically modified sugar beets, engineered by the Monsanto Corporation to be resistant to its herbicide Roundup, were first harvested in fall 2008. By now, sugar from those beets has likely entered the food stream. Critics of genetic engineering have raised concerns that the modified beets could produce food allergies, threaten wildlife and spread herbicide resistance or other modified traits to closely related species, including chard or table beets."We need to avoid the all-too-common situation of finding out a product is harmful after it has been approved and widely distributed," said Jeffrey Smith of the Institute for Responsible Technology, one of the organizations sponsoring the pledge. "Requiring that GM foods be labeled is the only protection consumers have if they want to avoid eating GM foods."

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