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Sunday, February 26, 2012

GMO Foods Scary. Is Organic Food Really Expensive?

Australia has very lax laws regarding food labellings and especially in the area of Genetically Engineered Organisms or GMO. Did you know that there is research showing that animals fed a mixture of GMO and natural foods in a bowl ate the natural food and discarded the GMO food!
Another study fed rats GMO tomatoes, well they rejected the tomatoes to the point of starvation then and only then did they eat them!
In the book Seeds of Deception by Jeffery Smith he goes on how the rats fed GMO food developed tumors, developed abnormalities in the liver, brain, testicles and immune systems. He highlights Dr. Arpad Pusztai's research on the matter in the first chapter. He did this research from a $3 million dollar government grant from United Kingdom on the safety of GMO foods.
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Which brings me to the argument about eating Organic. Does it cost more? Yes but is it worth it? There are two types of people in the world those who make excuses and those that don't. Am I that dogmatic about people of course not just highlighting a point.
In Denmark a supermarket chain took the punt to only have Organic foods they became the leaders in their market. In turn the farmers had to change their methods to organic and the prices went down as demand grew. In Australia I'd rather spend money on organic food than a Carbon tax! A carbon tax I have no control how that tax is being spent to improve the health of our kids. Changing the big Supermarkets attitude to supplying organics which would naturally follow on to the farmers is a better shift of our expenses which will help the health of our children for generations.

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