Kraft foods are all Genetic engineered, they are testing, and we are the test mice!

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Problem: From Lab to Table

 

 

Genetic engineering (GE) is a

technology still in its experimental stages of development.

By combining the genes of dissimilar and unrelated species (such as

corn and bacteria), permanently altering their genetic codes, novel

organisms are created. Genetic engineering is different from

traditional forms of cross-breeding or hybridization that can only

occur between related species or subspecies. Biotechnology companies

can use this technology to produce crops with characteristics that

would not occur naturally, such as corn that produces its own pesticide

throughout every part of the plant.

 

 

Despite potentially serious and

unknown health and environmental impacts,

genetic engineering has exploded into our lives with little chance for

the public to examine, debate or discuss this new technology. In 1995,

no genetically engineered crops were grown for commercial sale. In

1999, 28% of the corn and 54% of the soybeans produced in the U.S. were

genetically engineered. And now, genetically engineered crops cover

more than one-fourth of America's cropland.

 

 

Unfortunately, farmers have no

right to know

what their neighbors are planting, and the location of many

experimental biotech crop field trials are kept secret as confidential

business information, so contamination of organic and conventional

crops can occur without farmers’ knowledge and end up on our dinner

tables. Open-air

field trials of biopharmaceutical crops

—engineered to produce pharmaceutical drugs (including blood clotters,

abortion inducing chemicals and vaccines) and industrial chemicals

(such as plastics and enzymes)—are being grown around the country in

secret locations. This poses risks for contamination of conventional

crops, meaning that you could be eating someone else’s prescription

drugs in your corn flakes.

 

 

Genetically Engineered Foods pose

risks to our health.

Mounting scientific evidence suggests that GE foods may present serious

and unpredictable hazards to human health. Hundreds of Americans have

reported allergic reactions to the FDA after eating Kraft and other

brand name corn products likely containing GE ingredients. The British

Medical Association has called for a global moratorium on GE foods.

Scientists warn that GE foods may set off allergies, produce antibiotic

resistant pathogens, and produce dangerous toxins. A 2002 study showed

that genes from engineered foods can be taken up by bacteria in the

human gut—something that until now was thought to be impossible.

 

 

Genetic engineering is

unpredictable and dangerous—particularly for the environment.

Genes that have been engineered into plants and animals can be

transferred to other species, threatening numerous species and possibly

contaminating non-GE forms with potentially hazardous genetic material.

A 1999 study at Cornell University found that pollen created from a

variety of Bt corn, corn engineered to contain its own pesticide, was

toxic to the monarch butterflies.

 

 

Government agencies, including the

FDA, EPA, and Department of Agriculture, have been slow to act on

genetic engineering.

Despite growing concern by scientists and the public about the safety

of GE foods, the U.S. government refuses to require safety-testing or

labeling of these foods Critical tests to assess the risks of

genetically engineered foods, allergenicity in particular, are not

being performed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), despite

recommendations by EPA's own scientific advisors. This lack of activity

is due in part to the efforts of biotech companies.

 

 

Monsanto and other biotech companies

have started a $50 million ad campaign to promote genetically

engineered foods as safe for humans and the environment.

 

 

Solution:

Take a Stand for Safe Food! Join thousands of concerned citizens,

doctors, scientists, and environmental, health and consumer safety

groups in demanding that the largest food company in the U.S., Kraft

Foods, stop using these experimental foods in its products!

TAKE ACTION!

Tell KRAFT: Genetically KRAFTed? NOT IN MY KITCHEN!

LEARN MORE

Download factsheets on genetically engineered foods.